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Shackled Skeletons Unearthed in Greece Could Be Remains of Slaughtered Rebels Phaleron is a small town just four miles south of Athens that most visitors are unaware of. In addition to being a port of Athens in classical times, Phaleron has one of the largest cemeteries ever excavated in Greece, with over 1,500 skeletons. Phaleron, which dates from the 8th […]

15th-Century Irish Town Found Near Medieval Castle According to a recent excavation, the medieval Dunluce Castle, situated on the craggy rocks of Northern Ireland’s coast, is neighbors with a mysterious stone settlement. The castle dates back to the 15th century and once housed the powerful MacQuillan family, which in Northern Ireland ruled a great deal of territory. The Northern Ireland […]

Scientists discover ‘oldest footprints on Earth’ in southern China dating back 550 million years Scientists in China have found that the oldest fossilised animal footprints ever found are what they claim. The parallel tracks were formed in mud up to 551 million years ago in the Yangtze Gorges in southern China. They probably date to 10 million years before the […]

Boy, 12, discovers rare dinosaur skeleton in remote part of Canada A 12-year-old boy made the discovery of his lifetime when he discovered a dinosaur fossil dating back 69 million years. An amateur palaeontologist was walking with his father in a fossil-rich part of Alberta, Canada this July, when he saw bones protruding out of a rock. On Thursday, the skeleton’s […]

99-million-year-old ticks sucked the blood of dinosaurs Researchers have uncovered some amazing pieces of the past preserved in ancient amber, from a new order of insects to whole baby birds. Now, another mind-blowing amber discovery surfaced, featuring a 99-million-year-old dinosaur feather along with several ticks, the oldest discovered so far. One tick still clings to the dino feather, engorged from […]

Ice Age art discovered in Amazon rainforest: ‘Sistine Chapel of the ancients’ In Chiribiquete National Park, Colombia, in the Amazon rainforest, an eight-mile wall of prehistoric rock art depicting animals and humans was discovered. The 12,500-year-old work of art, dubbed the Sistine Chapel of the Ancients, was unearthed by a British-Colombian team of archaeologists under the leadership of José Iriarte, […]

Ancient Atomic Bombs Formed Desert Glass? Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, the founder of the atomic bomb, was lecturing at a college seven years after the nuclear testing in Alamogordo, New Mexico, when a student asked whether it was the first atomic test performed. “Yes, in modern times,” he replied. The sentence, enigmatic and incomprehensible at the time, was actually an […]

6th century AD tomb yields the longest sword from ancient Japan In a 1,500-year-old underground tunnel tomb in southern Kyushu, Japan, two rare and unique swords have been found. One of them is the longest sword ever discovered in an ancient Japanese tomb, while the other has a hilt that is the oldest ray-decorated item found in East Asia, wrapped […]

2,500-Year-Old Chariot Found – Complete with Rider And Horses An Iron Age chariot has been discovered buried in a village in Yorkshire for the second time in two years. The find was made at a construction site where more than 200 houses are being constructed in the town of Pocklington, England. Archaeologists are preparing to fully excavate the discovery as […]

Unique 1000-year-old helmet discovered in Bobruisk river port Photos and videos of a unique helmet found in Bobruisk have appeared. And questions, is it not a fake The helmet found on the banks of the Berezina in the port of Bobruisk will be transferred to the city museum, said Alexei Batyukov, director of the Museum of History of Mogilev.  “This is a […]