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Skeleton of ancient ‘birdman’ shaman wearing a costume made from BEAKS found A 5,000-year-old skeleton recently discovered at the Ust-Tartas site in the Novosibirsk area of Siberia has an unusual ornament: a headdress consisting of 30 to 50 bird skulls and beaks that are likely to belong to large shore species such as cranes and herons. As described in a […]

Headless skeletons and burials of skulls discovered in Georgia The Georgian-Polish team of archaeologists discovered two headless skeletons and a burial of a skull during excavations in the ancient cemetery of Beshtasheni in the area of Lower Kartli, south-eastern Georgia. In total, archaeologists found and researched sixteen Late Bronze Age and early Iron Age graves during the excavations carried out […]

Etchings of fighting CAMELS are the earliest ever drawings of the animal in Asia A 5ft (1.5m) long tusk featuring drawings of four camels and a human in a camel suit found in the lower Tom river in western Siberia was discovered by archaeologists. The team thinks that this could have represented how hunters dressed themselves as camels in order […]

Etruscan Tomb Of Child Discovered In Vulci During work at the Casaletto Mengarelli necropolis in Vulci, a new archaeological discovery was made. An intact burial was discovered dating back to the 6th-5th century BC, probably of an Etruscan child. The burial contains a red tufa sarcophagus and is of a deep pit form. The lid, carefully carved from a single […]

Giant Humans Lived In New Zealand 2500 Years Ago, Before Ancient Polynesians A secret team that spent four years tunnelling to the side of a country road in search of a mythical race of skeletons of pre-Polynesian giants skeletons have called off their dig. Last week, RNZ revealed iwi, academics and the landowner were concerned by the anonymous group’s dig […]

A perfectly preserved 500 million years old Trilobite fossil Palaeontologists have discovered what may well be the world’s oldest example of a fossilised eye ever seen, preserved for more than half a billion years. It belongs to the trilobite, a class of once-abundant early arthropods that peaked in the Cambrian Period and lived for more than 270 million years in […]

Stolen books worth £2.5m found under floor of Romanian house Rare books worth more than £ 2.5 million that were stolen in a daring Mission Impossible-style heist from a warehouse in West London were discovered hidden under the floor of a house in rural Romania. The recovery of 200 books, including the first editions of major works by Galileo and […]

Hawaii’s shifting sands reveal petroglyphs that may have been carved by aboriginal settlers Hawaii’s shorelines are famous surf spots that are world-renowned. But more than just white waters and barrels, breaking waves produced, but washing away the sands to unveil the outlines of ancient forms that were carved into the bedrock. Americans came across a number of petrogyphs on holiday […]

Ancestral Puebloans Used 11,550 Turkey Feathers to Make This 800-Year-Old Blanket For a turkey, there are more uses than the centrepiece of your Thanksgiving feast. Researchers suspect that for ancient Pueblo Indians in the American Southwest, who domesticated the bird but didn’t eat it the flightless fowl held deep significance. An 800-year old feather blanket from southeast Utah, one of the […]

Archaeologists Excavate Ancient Settlement That May Predate 12,000-Year-Old Gobekli Tepe Göbekli Tepe in south-east Turkey was named the world’s oldest temple at about 12,000 years old. It is several millennia older than the great pyramids of Egypt or Stonehenge, constructed in the pre-pottery Neolithic period before writing or the wheel. But should Göbekli Tepe, which in July became a Unesco World […]