“Treasure” the ancient Roman party town submerged in water and scuba diving exploration
Statues and ruins of a 2,000-year-old resort, famed for luxury and vice, are now a marine visitor attraction Fish flit around Enrico Gallochio as he gently brushes…
5,000-Year-Old Egyptian Mummies Found to Have the World’s Oldest Figural Tattoos
Dating to between 3351 to 3017 BC, tattoos of animals and motifs have been discovered on two naturally mummified bodies from Egypt. Using infrared technology, figural tattoos…
Discovered in the Altai Mountains: a Stunning 2300-Year-Old Scythian Woman’s Boot
Some speculate that the boot probably belonged to a high-ranking woman who did not have to walk much, resulting in its pristine condition. Tired of fast fashion,…
“Trovants,” be surprised by Romania’s living stones: they move, grow, and reproduce!
There are strange places across the world. But these places make our planet such a wonderful and unique place. Among its many oddities and beauties, Earth has…
Unexpected Discovery of 13,000 Ancient Clay Texts in Sohag
A German-Egyptian mission at Al-Sheikh Hamad archaeological site in Tel Atribis in Sohag has unearthed a collection of 13,000 ostraca (clay vessel fragments) which bear engraved text in demotic,…
Unexpectedly, the oldest mummy in the world, dating back 8,000 years, was discovered in an unusual locale
For a long time, it was thought that the world’s oldest mummies were located in Egypt, but this discovery has completely ‘smashed’ that thought! In mid-March, Live…
“New skeleton” discovered in Pompeii demonstrates the use of Greek in the ancient metropolis
Archaeologists in the ancient city of Pompeii have discovered a remarkably well-preserved skeleton during excavations of a tomb that also shed light on the cultural life of…
Mexican archaeologists find a Mayan civilization treasure as well as enormous sloth fossils in a huge underwater cave
In the world’s biggest underwater cave system, archaeologists have found many ancient Mayan artefacts and fossils of long-extinct creatures, including giant sloths, but warn that the mysteries…
“The Princess Mummy” Mysteries of the Persian King Xerxes of the Achaemenid Period, 5th century B.C
In March 2000, Amanollah Riggi of New Jersey sent Oscar Muscarella from New York’s Metropolitan Museum 4 Polaroid photographs of what appeared to be a mummy, together…
European Mummies Discovered in the Taklamakan Desert, Xinjiang
The discovery of European-type corpses thousands of kilometers away provides a glimpse of the existence of a hitherto unknown link between East and West in the Bronze…