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Newly Discovered Human-Sized Dinosaur Footprint Is The Largest Ever Found Scientists claim they have found “Australia’s Jurassic Park” along the rocky shores of Western Australia’s remote area of Kimberly. Palaeontologists have found a diverse collection of dinosaur footprints in the area, among them the largest dinosaur footprint known to science, as Jonathan Amos reports for the BBC. The research team, […]

Egypt unveils 4th-7th century AD remains of ancient city in Alexandria The Egyptian-Polish Archaeological Team, associated with the Polish Center for Mediterranean Archaeology of the University of Warsaw, Poland, working in the Kom El-Dekka Ruins in Alexandria, was able to discover the remains of a large part of an ancient city dating from the 4th to the 7th centuries AD. […]

Students Unearth Rare Treasures at Lost Biblical City of Ziklag During a three-week excavation in February, a rare ‘smiting deity’ figurine, a bronze calf figurine, two seals and decorated Canaanite and Philistine pottery from the 12th Century BCE were found at Khirbet el-Rai in Israel by a team of 32 students from Macquarie University and three high school teachers. In […]

See Ancient Cave Art Found in Egypt’s Sinai Desert The encounter has led to the discovery of a small sandstone cave in the middle of Sinai in Egypt. The cave is colourfully decorated with drawings of people and donkeys, some of them dating back to 10,000 BCE. The Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities of Egypt says they have now finished […]

A five-eyed fossil shrimp that lived 520 million years ago, discovered by scientists Scientists say—The ‘missing link’ in the evolution of arthropods could be a type of shrimp with five eyes that swam the Earth’s oceans half a billion years ago. The three-inch-long creature, dating back 520 million years, was discovered by researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in […]

Female warrior was buried with legs wide apart in the ‘riding position’ 2,400 years ago An amazing 2,400-year-old female warrior was buried in a ‘riding position’ as she journeyed to the afterlife. The burial site at the Devitsa V ancient necropolis in the Voronezh region of Russia has been discovered. According to Russian archaeologists, the horsewoman, aged between 20 and 35, […]

Local farmers discovered carved caves 2,000 years old while pumping water out of five small pools The Longyou Caves are a series of large artificial sandstone caverns on Phoenix Hill, near the Qu River village of Shiyan Beicun, Lingyou County, in the Zhejiang Province of China. The caves were found by the Local “farmers who pumped water out of five small […]

Researchers Uncover 2,000-Year-Old Mayan Water Filtration System In one of the world’s most inhospitable environments, the Mayas were able to create a spectacular civilization. It was still something of a mystery how they were able to survive and flourish. American researchers now claim that revolutionary Maya water purification systems supplied them with safe drinking water, which was important to their […]

Biggest circular tomb in the ancient world to open in Rome He was the first Roman emperor who took over from Julius Caesar and established an empire that would eventually spread from the United Kingdom to Egypt, boasting that “I found Rome built of bricks and left it marble” on his dying mattress. But when Emperor Augustus died in 14CE, […]

Archaeologists unearthed 27 sarcophagi in an ancient Egyptian city of the dead. They’ve been sealed for more than 2,500 years According to the country’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, archaeologists in Egypt have found nearly 30 sarcophagi believed to have been buried for about 2,500 years. From an 11-meter-deep (36 feet) burial shaft in Saqqara, a large necropolis about 32 […]