Ancient Mexican City May Have Had As Many Buildings As Manhattan Archaeologists in Mexico have uncovered an ancient civilization that may have held as many buildings as modern-day Manhattan. Roughly half an hour’s drive from the city of Morelia, west of Mexico City, the city is believed to have been built around the year 900 A.D. by a group of people […]
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A Roman fort has been discovered under where thousands of us have walked in Exeter city centre Under the bus stop of Exeter, the remains of a Roman fort have been found. The finds which took place during the reconstruction of the site in Devon town have been defined by archeologists as significant and unexpected. First, a Roman ditch was revealed, […]
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A 2000-year-old preserved loaf of bread found in the ruins of Pompeii The violent eruption of Mount Vesuvius is considered to be one of the greatest natural catastrophes of the ancient world, when several cities in the Bay of Naples were covered in ash and rock and left just as they stood on that fateful day in 79 AD. The […]
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Fisher Man Reels in Massive Skull of 10,000 years old Megaloceros Elk On the lakebed of Lough Neagh in Northern Ireland, a fishing fighter and his assistant were out on Sept. 5 when they reached the distance from their usual catch. With its skull nearly fully intact, Raymond McElroy and his assistant, Charlie Coyle were shocked by massive elk antlers. […]
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The 90,000-year-old hybrid of two extinct human species has been uncovered by scientists A piece of bone, barely larger than a quarter, has given archeologists their recent major scientific breakthrough. A study published in Nature on 22 August examined the piece of bone and found that the former girl from whom the fragment belonged was an unknown hybrid of two ancient […]
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