Researchers stumbled upon a box of human bones that had been missing for 100 years
Researchers stumbled upon a box of human bones that had been missing for 100 years The long-lost bones of a Viking nobleman have been found in the archives of the Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen, more than 50 years after the remains were mislabeled and vanished into museum storage. These artefacts came from the burial of a …
‘Folded’ iron sword found in a Roman soldier’s grave was part of a pagan ritual
‘Folded’ iron sword found in a Roman soldier’s grave was part of a pagan ritual An iron sword deliberately bent as part of a pagan ritual has been discovered in a Roman soldier’s grave in Greece, an archaeologist has revealed. The deformed or ‘folded’ sword was buried with an as yet unidentified soldier about 1,600 years ago …
Trilobite Fossil Reveals World’s Oldest Cannibalism, What Animal Is It?
Trilobite Fossil Reveals World’s Oldest Cannibalism, What Animal Is It? It’s a dog-eat-dog world out there. But before there were dogs — or even dinosaurs — there were trilobites brutally biting each other on the Cambrian seafloor. New research has revealed that these armoured predators didn’t only hunt smaller and weaker animals for food, but …
1,000 Years Ago, Patients Survived Brain Surgery, But They Had To Live With Huge Holes in Their Heads
1,000 Years Ago, Patients Survived Brain Surgery, But They Had To Live With Huge Holes in Their Heads Healers in Peru carried out cranial surgery more than a thousand years ago to treat a host of conditions – often successfully. Without the benefits of a sterile operating theatre, state-of-the-art surgical instruments, anaesthetic and pain medication, …
An Ancient Papyrus Reveals How The Great Pyramid of Giza Was Built
An Ancient Papyrus Reveals How The Great Pyramid of Giza Was Built Stones weighing up to fifteen tonnes were hauled down the Nile on wooden boats to a man-made port. For centuries it has been one of the world’s greatest enigmas: how did a primitive society with little technology build the Great Pyramid of Giza …
Mungo Man: 42,000-year-old Aboriginal remains to be reburied
Mungo Man: 42,000-year-old Aboriginal remains to be reburied The remains of 108 Aboriginal people who died about 42,000 years ago will be reburied in outback Australia, years after they were first dug up without permission. These include the remains of Mungo Man, which was famously discovered in 1974 and helped rewrite Australia’s history. The decision …
Early Bronze Age Ax Heads Discovered in England
Early Bronze Age Ax Heads Discovered in England Metal detectorists have made a “remarkable” discovery unearthing two Bronze Age axe heads on land owned by a farmer in Wiltshire. Kay Stevenson, from Winterbourne in South Gloucestershire, said the finds could be about 4,000 years old. “I knelt down and dug it up, then realised it …
Man discovers alien creature’s corpse washed up on Australian beach
Man discovers “alien” creature’s corpse washed up on Australian beach A weirdly bloated creature, whose head has been defleshed and body looks more like a swollen, discoloured beast of a myth than anything real, washed up on an Australian beach last week. And though it’s anybody’s guess the idenтιтy of the stranded corpse, experts contacted …
Did another advanced species exist on Earth before humans?
Did another advanced species exist on Earth before humans? Our Milky Way galaxy contains tens of billions of potentially habitable planets, but we have no idea whether we’re alone. For now, Earth is the only world known to harbour life, and among all the living things on our planet, we ᴀssume Homo sapiens is the …
Skeleton of Roman mercenary and medieval remains found buried in Wales
Skeleton of Roman mercenary and medieval remains found buried in Wales The 1,700-year-old skeleton of a Roman mercenary has been unearthed next to a newly-built road in the Welsh countryside. Archaeologists discovered the mercenary buried with his sword alongside Iron Age farming tools, ancient burial sites, and the remnants of roundhouses. A total of 456 skeletons …