Category: ARCHAEOLOGY

FIRST GREEK HELMET DISCOVERED NORTH OF THE BLACK SEA IN RUSSIA The agency RIA Novosti reported that a Corinthian helmet was found in a grave dated from the 5th century BC in the Taman Peninsula, south-west of Russia. It is the only such helmet found from the north of the Black Sea. Corroded after 2500 years of burial and thus […]

PETRIFIED OPAL TREE TRUNK SITUATED IN ARIZONA IT’S ABOUT 225 MILLION YEARS OLD What happened to the wood that made it that way in the beautiful petrified trees in the forests of Arizona? They believe that petrified wood is so old that in the prehistoric period it has emerged. But do you know how petrified wood was made? This guide […]

Swords And Spears Of The Yotvingians – A Long-Forgotten Ancient Warrior Culture Discovered In Poland Archeologists dating back about 1,000 years have found over 500 swords, spears and knives that once belonged to an ancient Poland’s long-disappeared tribe-the Baltic Yotvingians. The Yotvingians arrived in the Suwałki region in the mid-first millennium AD with strong cultural ties to the Lithuanians and […]

Fossils From Some of the Last Homo Erectus Hint at the End of the Long-Lived Species Two million years ago Homo erectus evolved and became the first known human species to walk fully upright. New data reveals that it survived in the Indonesian island of Java a just over 100,000 years ago-long after it had vanished elsewhere. This means that […]

Inuit Mummies Had Clogged Arteries Despite High Omega-3s The mummified Inuit scans of Greenland from the 16th century show that, despite a diet rich in omega-3 fatty acids, the ancient hunters suffered from clogged-up arteries. Atherosclerosis — the build-up of fat, cholesterol, and calcium plaques in one’s arteries — is a leading cause of death in the wealthy countries of […]

Priceless Gold Coins Discovered in Ancient ‘Piggy Bank’ in Israel In an ancient harbor off Israel’s coast, a massive trove of thousand-year-old gold coins was unearthed. The hoard, discovered by members of an amateur scuba diving club for the first time, is Israel’s largest haul of gold coins ever unearthed. The finding raises the possibility that an ancient shipwreck, once […]

Scythian Burial With Golden Headdress Found in Russia As the ancient Scythians travelled through Europe and Asia to discover subsequent archaeologists and left behind a trail of burial mounds, it was assumed that those buried with weapons were men. It was only with the advent of modern scientific analysis that it was revealed that women warriors were a common sight […]

About 48 million years-ago a young snake died a few days after eating a lizard in a volcanic lake. The lizard had just eaten a beetle that was still in its stomach, and the evidence of this ancient food chain has been preserved for millions of years. The unique fossil has now been uncovered by researchers digging in the Messel […]