Category: ARCHAEOLOGY

Mysterious ‘black goo’ used by Ancient Egyptians to cover coffins identified by British Museum Scientists have revealed that a ‘black Goo’ used by ancient Egyptians to cover mummy cases was a mixture of animal fat, tree resin, beesWax and crude oil from the Dead Sea.  This bizarre treatment from the 19th to 22nd dynasty, between 1,300 and 750 BC, was […]

Laser Scans Reveal 60,000 Previously Unknown Maya Structures Hidden in Guatemalan Jungle! More than 60,000 hidden Mayan ruins have been discovered in Guatemala throughout a major archaeological discovery. Laser technology was utilized to digitally survey, revealing houses, palaces, elevated highways and defensive fortifications behind the forest canopy. The landscape, near already-known Maya cities, is believed to be home to millions of more people […]

5.7 Million-year-old Human Footprints Fossil May Challenge History of Human Evolution Scientists have uncovered human-like footprints from Greece’s largest island Crete—dating back to 5.7 million years-that may put the established theories of early human evolution to the test. After the discovery of Australopithecus fossils in South and East Africa in the middle years of the 20th century, the origin of the […]

Newly-Discovered Remains Suggest Earliest Humans Came From Europe, Not Africa Homo sapiens have been on earth for 200,000 years — give or take a few ten-thousand-year stretches. Much of that time is shrouded in the fog of prehistory. All we know has been pieced together by the deciphering the fossil records with the principles of evolutionary theory. However, new discoveries have the ability […]

Israeli Scientists Find Traces of Cannabis and Frankincense on 2,700-Year-Old Altars More than 2,700 years ago, worshipers at a shrine in Israel “holy of holies” may have gained high on weed. Researchers discovered burnt cannabis and frankincense at the site located in the Kingdom of Judah. After analyzing ancient residues left on two altars at the shrine, researchers made the […]

Etruscan Tomb Of Child Discovered In Vulci In response to archaeologists, the tomb dates back to the top of the 6th century Bc, and is located a few meters away from the Prince’s Tomb and from the world in query, the place work is being accomplished to boost the Regional Operational Challenge (Progetto operativo regionale) which the Municipality, together with the Lazio region and […]

Coal mine in Serbia gives up new Roman treasure The sun sank in eastern Serbia over a vast opencast coal mine earlier this month and the front half of a Roman ship was lifted by a small crane from the steep sides of the pit. An excavator cutting through the soil rich in coal had removed some muddy timber weeks before, […]

Murder mystery on HS2 route as Iron Age man found buried face down with hands bound HS2 project archaeologists found an Iron Age skeleton with his hands tied and who believe he may be a murder victim. The remains of the 2,000-year-old adult male have been discovered face down at Wellwick Farm in Buckinghamshire near Wendover. Dr. Rachel Wood, the Project […]

A peek into Bronze-Age Tepe Gariran, a gateway to the “Old Routes of Western Iran” In 1931, renowned British archaeologist Sir Marc Aurel Stein (1862 – 1943) surveyed Tepe Gariran in Western Iran along with several others across the ancient land. His views were published in a book titled  “Old Routes of Western Iran: Narratives of an Archaeological Journey”  in November 1969. […]

Local Man Finds 2,000-Year-Old Roman Lead Ingot in Welsh Field Rob Jones’ discovery adds a tangible piece of evidence to the history of mining in Roman Britain Some of the most significant Roman artifacts in Wales has been discovered by a metal detector in recent years. Lead ore or galena contains both silver and lead, all of which were precious […]