Ancient pyramid discovered in Antarctica An Antarctic mountain with a remarkable, pyramid-like shape, with countless theorists contemplating its origins, is suddenly internet-famous. Some are wondering if the rocky, pyramidal structure was built by an ancient civilization, while others are pointing into outer space, speculating about alien involvement. But the Occam’s razor, the belief that the simplest theory is generally the […]

The Giant 10-Million-Year-Old Fossil Tree in Peru Reveals Surprises About Ancient History A giant tree fossil discovered in Peru has provided researchers with a new image of how the environment has evolved over the past 10 million years in the Andes mountains. Researchers from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) found the fossil buried in a cold, grassy plain during […]

Century-Old Little Girl Found In Coffin Under San Francisco Home Identified Inside a 19th-century metal casket under a San Francisco home, the body of a young girl found last year was eventually identified nearly 141 years after she died. KTVU reported—The child was two-year-old Edith Howard Cook, who died six weeks shy of her third birthday on Oct. 13, 1876. […]

A prehistoric Atlantis in the north sea may have been abandoned after being hit by a 5mt tsunami 8200 years ago A prehistoric “Atlantis” in the North Sea may have been abandoned 8,200 years ago after being struck by a 5m tsunami. The wave was formed off the coast of Norway by a catastrophic subsea landslide. The tsunami over-ran Doggerland, […]

UK Dig Discovers 9,000-Year-Old Remains They knew it was a site of historical significance when archaeologists started digging the fields in 2010, but even they were shocked by the wealth of ancient finds their trowels unveiled. A hoard of 400 Roman coins was found west of Didcot in Oxfordshire in 1995, suggesting that the land had been settled for centuries. […]

The world’s most Amazing Meteorite found The Fukang Meteorite is the name given to a meteorite that has been found in China. Fukang Meteorite belongs to a class of stony-iron meteorite known as Pallasite, which can be identified by fragments of olivine crystals embedded in an iron-nickel matrix. According to one study, the slices of such a meteorite, when illuminated […]

This is one of the “Cracked Eggs” that you can find in the Bisti De Na Zin Wilderness Area The Bisti Badlands look more like a dreamscape than a landscape in northern New Mexico. Totem poles of sandstone rocks, or hoodoos, reach haphazardly into the bright blue sky, some so crooked that it’s incredible that even the smallest gust of […]

1,900-Year-Old Roman Village unearthed in Germany Archaeologists have found the ruins of a 1,900-year-old Roman fort that once housed 500 troops in what is now Germany. The fort was found in the town of Gernsheim, which is situated in the German state of Hesse along the Rhine river. During the first to third centuries, researchers knew the area was the […]

800,000-year-old footprints of earliest northern Europeans discovered Archaeologists reported the discovery, around 800,000 years ago of a collection of footprints left by a group of adults and children. The prints were first found and recorded in May 2013 on the foreshore at Happisburgh in Norfolk, England. We were not sure what we were seeing at first but as we stripped any […]

The tomb of Mayan “God-King” discovered in Guatemala, his status determined by the carved jade mask At the site of the Mayan city of Waka in northern Guatemala, the tomb of an ancient ‘god-king’ has been found. Ceramic analysis of site-based artefacts has been provisionally dated to between AD 300 and 350. A stunning painted jade mask was included, which […]