Category: ARCHAEOLOGY

200-MILLION-YEAR-OLD FOSSIL SHOWS SQUID ANCESTOR ATTACKING PREY Scientists have discovered the world’s oldest known example of a squid-like creature attacking its prey, in a fossil dating back almost 200 million years. The fossil was found in the 19th century on the Jurassic Coast of Southern England and is currently housed within the collections of the British Geological Survey in Nottingham. […]

Radar Reveals an Ancient Artifacts & Treasure in Scandinavia’s First Viking City Archaeologists have been busy digging under the streets of Ribe, the first Viking city ever to be established in Scandinavia, and have discovered a treasure trove of ancient artefacts. The Ribe, found in western Denmark, is the subject of important new research conducted in recent days by archaeologists of […]

Medieval Child Skeletons Unearthed in Northern Ireland There are 14 skeletons of the teenager and a young child found in an ancient burial ground just a few meters from St. Patrick ‘s grave. The medieval skeletons were discovered beside the Down Cathedral in Downpatrick, County Down, in August 2018. Archaeologists first believed they had discovered the lost cemetery of the Benedictine […]

Egypt unveils 2,500-year-old mummy at forgotten cemetery In an ancient cemetery south of Cairo, Egypt uncovered the 2500-year old mummy of a priest. Three sealed sarcophagi from the 26th Dynasty were opened by Egyptologist Zahi Hawass and an Egyptian team. One of them contained the well-preserved mummy of a powerful priest, wrapped in linen and decorated with a golden figure […]

Early Humans Probably Didn’t Evolve from a Single Population in Africa Scientists are widely suggestion that modern human beings evolved from a single population of Homo sapiens in today’s Morocco some 300,000 years ago. However, a recent report now shows that we are rewrite the very foundations of our evolution. Research published on 11 July in Trends in Ecology & Evolution […]

Burials of Africans slaves found at the old rubbish dump in Portugal Portuguese explorers like Henry the Navigator began sailing to Africa, bringing back both goods and enslaved people at the beginning of the 15th century. A recent archaeological studies performed in Lagos, Portugal of more than 150 skeletons dumped, indicates that many of the enslaved Africans have not given proper burials […]

4000 Years Ago in Egypt, Dozens of Men Who Died Of Terrible Wounds Were Mummified and Entombed Together in the Cliffs Near Luxor  In Egypt More than 4,000 years ago, dozens of men who died of terrible wounds were mummified and buried together in cliffs near Luxor. In ancient Egypt, mass burials were exceptionally rare, so why have these mummies all […]

Scientists find evidence of fires built in Yucatán cave 10,000 years ago The oldest traces of charcoal ever discovered were found in a submerged of Yucatán Peninsula cenote. The first settlers in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula built bonfires over 10,000 years ago in a cave that is now flooded with water, according to new archeological evidence from burned charcoal samples. Organic samples […]

Traces of Roman engineering found in the ancient port town About two millennia ago, Lechaion, one of the ports of the ancient city of Corinth, occupied a special place on the map of southern Greece. It was a strategic point that was easily linked to a variety of significant trading routes that passed through the Mediterranean and led to Italy, Turkey […]