Category: ARCHAEOLOGY

Eight-year-old Swedish-American girl pulls pre-Viking era sword from a lake On holiday with their family, an 8-year-old girl found a sword from the pre-Viking-era in a Swedish lake that led to local people jokingly naming her the Queen of Sweden. In Vidöstern Lake near her holiday home, Swedish-American Saga Vanecek was found an ancient artifact while playing. The sword is estimated by the museum experts to be around 1500 years old. A museum expert said that the […]

Two Ancient Egyptian Kingdom Tombs Opened in Luxor, Egypt The authorities of Egypt have announced that two ancient tombs in the southern Luxor city, which date to around 3,500 years ago, have been discovered. They are filled with grave goods, and one including the mummified body of their occupant. The two tombs are found on the west bank of the Nile River […]

Mass grave of Viking army contained slaughtered children to help dead reach afterlife, experts believe A mass grave of Viking warriors discovered in Derbyshire was accompanied by slaughtered children in a burial ritual executed to help the dead reach the afterlife, archaeologists assumed. Experts from Bristol University re-examined a huge pit of bones discovered in Repton in the 1970s and 80s. […]

Construction Workers Find Rare Intact Roman Tomb This is a remarkable day when archeologists find an ancient burial that hasn’t been destroyed by natural causes, ravaged by war or looted by artifact hunters. That is why the untouched tomb of King Tut was significant and why archaeologists are going gaga over the tomb of a Greek warrior found in Pylos. Add another […]

The Ribchester Helmet – An Ancient Roman artifact discovered by a 13-year-old boy while playing behind the house Archaeologists uncovered many remarkable artefacts over the last centuries  that give us a glimpse into human history and help us to understand the many mysteries of the ancient world. Through the years several archaeological expeditions have taken place, some of which have resulted in […]

Mysterious flooding leads to the discovery of 5,000-year-old underground city in Turkey’s Cappadocia Some of the world’s most beautiful sights in the world is in Central Turkey–dark valleys and rock formations with houses, chapels, mosques, churches and entire underground cities, that are harmonically carved into the natural landscape. Such special underground havens have risen and fallen around cities, empires and religions, and still […]

Greek Sponge Divers find the Worlds Oldest Analog Computer When you ask anyone who invented the computer, they might say,  Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. Obviously, they should be wrong. Perhaps they might mention Alan Turing (who recommended the Universal Computing Museum) or Torpedo Data Machine from the United States Navy’s WWII period. But computers, originally developed as electronic devices, […]

80 Shackled Skeletons Found in Greek Grave After Ancient Mass Execution Archeologists offered a first image of the site where 80 skeletons in a mass grave with wrists clamped by iron shackles lie in an ancient Greek cemetery The archaeologists team said that the fossils, which could dated from 632BC, were the result of a mass execution. But how they got there, […]