Off the coast of Egypt, unexpected fruit baskets from Thonis-Heracleion dating to 2,400 years ago were discovered
Fruit baskets — with fruit still inside — that are more than 2,200 years old were discovered this week in ruins of Thonis-Heracleion, the ancient lost city…
Archaeologists Discover a 3,300-year-old Bird’s extinct claw from 700 Years Ago
Archaeologists Find 3,300-Year-Old Claw Of A Bird That Went Extinct 700 Years Ago Scientists have estimated the Earth to be more or less 4.54 billion years old,…
The discovery of a 290 million year old human footprint has researchers scratching their heads
Ask any historian nowadays and they will all tell you the same thing: Humanity dates back to a couple of million years ago, with the real “revelation”…
What a surprise! Archaeologists Unearth 1st Century Roman Refrigerator in Bulgaria
Over the last few decades, archaeologists from Bulgaria and Poland have been performing excavations at the site where the Roman legionary fortress of Novae once stood. The ruins of…
Discover some fascinating facts about the largest petroglyph in the world, a sculpture of a giraffe in Niger, Africa
For thousands of years, giraffes have captivated people with their long necks and slouchy gait. The rock carvings, estimated to be 9,000 years old, in the Sahara…
Archaeologists have uncovered the ruins of what could be one of the four lost Ancient Egyptian “Sun Temples”
A Polish and Italian archaeological mission, while conducting an excavation in the Abusir necropolis near Saqqara in Egypt, unearthed the remains of a mud-brick building believed to…
A 400-year-old ship figurehead from the Eighty Years War was snagged by Dutch shrimpers!
An exceptionally well-preserved ship figurehead, in the form of a wooden statue, was “caught” by a shrimp boat crew off the coast of Texel Island in the…
Himera: One of the greatest archaeological discoveries of recent decades emerges
A necropolis with more than 12,000 almost untouched burials from the Archaic and Classical periods, many of which are rich in grave goods, was discovered between 2008…
A 9,500-year-old “lost city” underwater off the coast of India has been found
Divers unintentionally uncovered what was thought to be a big “lost town” in India, tipped it to rewrite the region’s historical history. Marine archaeologists discovered the remains…
The mysterious origin of the “huge” ancient megaliths in Yangshan Quarry
There is a vast amount of evidence dispersed all over the world that lends credence to the theory that an ancient civilization of intelligent beings once inhabited…