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Found: King Anunnaki’s body, 12000 years old and completely intact This discovery was made entirely by chance in 2008, and it is definitely thanks to the Russian media, and to the television press, that we know what happened. It happened in Kurdistan, Iran, a country very close to the world, but with good relations with Russia, at least in the […]

Way before Columbus, ancient Malians sailed to the Americas in 1311 In each basic history lesson, the Italian sailor/explorer Christopher Columbus has a renowned reputation as the discoverer of the new world. For over 500 years to date, this has been recognised globally. Education has been possessed by Europeans, who believe many have enforced what has enriched them while scorning […]

Archaeologists find 1000-year-old Viking sword in the ancient city of Patara in Turkey A Viking sword was discovered in the ancient city of Patara in Turkey’s southern Antalya province, believed to date back to the ninth or 10th century. The sword was discovered during excavation work in Patara, which was once the capital of the ancient city of Lycia. The […]

Melting glaciers reveal lost mountain pass and artifacts used by Vikings Archaeologists said this month that ice patches that melted from the slopes of a remote mountain pass in Norway have uncovered objects that provide new insight into the livelihoods of hunters, merchants and travellers along a path thousands of years ago. Tunics and mittens woven with wool, leather shoes, […]

Hares and Chickens Were Revered as Gods—Not Food—in Ancient Britain Archaeologists say, In the 5th century AD, chickens and brown hares were introduced to Britain and were adored as gods rather than eaten. Instead of being used as food, the creatures were related to deities and found by experts from the University of Exeter, buried with care and intact. No […]

Dino-mite: N.C. museum gets fossils of dinosaurs that apparently died fighting “A fossil pair of 67 million-year-old known as “Dueling Dinosaurs” consists of a perfectly preserved T. rex to the bones of the equally intact Triceratops. In laboratories and warehouses, the skeletons languished for years as ranchers and palaeontologists fought a legal battle over their possession. The struggle ended on […]

Egypt unveils 59 ancient coffins in major archaeological discovery The discovery of 59 well-preserved and sealed wooden coffins that were buried more than 2,500 years ago was announced by archaeologists in Egypt. On Saturday, the team revealed mummified remains wrapped in burial cloth that bore hieroglyphic inscriptions in bright colours, opening one of the ornately decorated sarcophagi before assembled media. […]

17th-Century Warship Pulled From Icy Baltic Sea Is Almost Perfectly Preserved In the 1620s, King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden ordered the construction of a new warship to protect his citizens. The warship was named Vasa and its construction was hurried as the Swedes waged war in those years with the now-historic bi-confederation entity reigned by one monarch–the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. After its creation, […]

Poseidon Mosaic Discovered In Central Turkey A rare mosaic depicting the ancient Greek god of the sea, Poseidon, was unearthed by archaeological excavations in the southern Turkish province of Adana’s Yumurtalık district. It is thought to date from the 3rd or 4th century B.C. In the frigidarium (large cold pool of a Roman bath), part of the ancient bath at […]

World’s Oldest Unopened Bottle of Wine Remains Sealed Since the 4th Century The origin of man’s wine romance seems to predate written history because no one is really sure when people began to get drunk. Archaeology may not be aware of the exact date that people first began growing grapevines, but the theory is that early people may have climbed […]