Category: ARCHAEOLOGY

Did Native American travel with the Vikings and arrive in Iceland centuries before Columbus set sail? Scientists were searching for answers to historical puzzles by sifting through the genetic code of some Icelanders. They were looking to see if a New World Native American woman accompanied the Vikings back to Europe, five centuries before Columbus returned to Spain with native […]

A new Viking site could rewrite the story of the ‘Great Heathen Army’ About 40 years ago, archaeologists who excavated the land in the English village of Repton came across a gruesome find: a mass grave containing the bodies of more than 250 men , women and children, many of whom are bearing the battle scars on their bones. The […]

Roman arcade found in England, the oldest building in the country Although arcades aren’t around much anymore, they were once a major part of a child’s weekend. Arcades allowed friends to hang out and play endless games for hours to come. Since the ancient Romans, arcades have been around. British archaeologists have recently discovered a Roman arcade in Colchester, Essex, under […]

Greco-Roman Era Tomb Found in Upper Egypt A rock-cut tomb by a person named Tjt, dated back to the late pharaonic period and the Graeco-Roman period, was found by the Egyptian-Italian Archeological Mission working for the Aga-Khan Mausoleum region on Aswan West Bank. Mostafa Waziri, Secretary-General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, said that within the tomb the mission had […]

Scientists have ‘revived’ cell parts from the remains of a woolly mammoth that died 28,000 years ago An impressively well-preserved woolly mammoth was excavated from Siberian permafrost eight years ago. Having met its extinction some 4,000 years ago, finding such a relatively pristine specimen was an astounding feat — particularly since it was 28,000 years old. Since then, scientists have […]

The outer coffin that once held King Tutankhamun (the youngest king to rule Egypt — came to power when he was just 9) had never left the 3,300-year-old tomb from the time his body was first laid to rest, until now. Even after the British archaeologist, Howard Carter discovered the tomb in 1922, a coffin made of wood and gold […]

Archeologists believe Norway find is rare Viking ship burial Archaeologists believe that they have found a rare Viking ship burial site in the region of Norway known for its Viking-era treasures, Norwegian officials said Monday. This handout photo, published on March 25, 2019 by Vestfold Fylkeskommune, shows Funnplass, where a ship’s grave probably originated from the Viking Age was discovered on a plain between the burial mounds of Borreparken in Vestfold, Eastern Norway. Using GPR (ground-penetrating radar), experts found a ship-shaped anomaly near other Viking burial mounds in Borre Park in Vestfold County, southeast of Oslo. “The […]

Angry Alaskans burned a village to the ground and executed 28 inhabitants by tying them up and knifing them in the head ‘in a feud over a darts game’ in the mid 17th Century Archaeologists in Alaska have discovered a 350-year-old massacre that happened during a war that may have started over a dart game. The discovery reveals the gruesome […]