Category: ARCHAEOLOGY

The Mystery of the Giant Crystals: How the 36-foot Geode of Pulpí Formed In an abandoned mine in southern Spain, there is a room of pure crystal.  You have to go to a deep tunnel, get into a ladder in the rocks, and squeeze across a jagged gypsum crystal tube that is barely wide enough for a person. If you […]

This Ancient Human Brain Remained Almost Perfectly Intact For 2,600 Years Archaeologists were shocked in 2008 when they found a human brain dating from the Iron Age. The finding seemed to challenge basic biology; human brains, like any other soft tissue, usually decline shortly after death. But now, scientists have found out how 2,600 years of this brain remained intact. […]

Century-Old Little Girl Found In Coffin Under San Francisco Home Identified Researchers announced that the 19th-century body of a little girl found last year in a small metal casket under a San Francisco home was identified. The girl was Edith Howard Cook, two-year-old, who died on October 13, 1876, six weeks short of her third birthday, said the charity Garden […]

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 […]