An ancient crystal skull was found many years ago in an archeological site in Southern Mexico

An ancient crystal skull was found many years ago in an archeological site in Southern Mexico

An ancient crystal skull was found many years ago in an archeological site in Southern Mexico. A crystal skull was discovered in an archeological site called Monte Alban in Southern Mexico a number of years ago called Pancho. The location where he was found was once populated by the Zapotec people. In the Valley of Oaxaca …

Mysterious Giant Stone Sculpture of Aramu muru north of Chucuito Peru

Mysterious Giant Stone Sculpture of Aramu muru north of Chucuito Peru

Mysterious Giant Stone Sculpture of Aramu muru north of Chucuito Peru Many people here only see an unfinished work by ancient masons. Nevertheless, other local legends tell something else — Aramu Muru is called a gateway to a realm of spirit. It is unclear when and who made Aramu Muru – but presumably before the …

A battery around 200 BC found by  the German Archaeologist in 1938 

A battery around 200 BC found by  the German Archaeologist in 1938 

A battery around 200 BC found by the German Archaeologist in 1938. It was in 1938, while working in Khujut Rabu, just outside Baghdad in modern-day Iraq, that German archaeologist Wilhelm Konig unearthed a five-inch-long (13 cm) clay jar containing a copper cylinder that encased an iron rod. The vessel showed signs of corrosion, and …

Bronze Age cemetery discovered in West Bank village – Middle East Monitor

Bronze Age cemetery discovered in West Bank village – Middle East Monitor

Bronze Age cemetery discovered in West Bank village – Middle East Monitor On April 6, the Palestinian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced the discovery of a prehistoric cemetery dating back to the Bronze Age in the Hindaza region near Bethlehem. IMAN AT-тιтI Director of the Antiquities Department of the Governorate of Bethlehem “The discovery …

A Roman laguncula (water bottle) of the 4th century AD discovered in France

A Roman laguncula (water bottle) of the 4th century AD discovered in France

A Roman “laguncula” (water bottle) of the 4th century AD discovered in France Archaeologist Carlo Di Clemente: Exceptional state of conservation, there are only very few other specimens found from excavations The military bottle in the modern sense dates back to the second half of the 19th century, yet the Romans had already invented it. …

The mystery of unique 2,100-year-old human clay head – with a ram’s skull inside

The mystery of unique 2,100-year-old human clay head – with a ram’s skull inside

The mystery of unique 2,100-year-old human clay head – with a ram’s skull inside According to a report in The Siberian Times, a team of researchers led by Natalia Polosmak of the Russian Insтιтute of Archaeology and Ethnography and Konstantin Kuper of the Insтιтute of Nuclear Physics used fluoroscopy to examine a head-shaped sculpture crafted by …

Two Viking Boat Graves—With a Warrior Inside—Found in Sweden

Two Viking Boat Graves—With a Warrior Inside—Found in Sweden

Two Viking Boat Graves—With a Warrior Inside—Found in Sweden Previously, two Viking burial boats in Uppsala, Sweden have been unraveled by archaeologists the remains of a dog, a man, and a horse are remarkably preserved. A few of the powerful elites were sent back to their afterlife by the Vikings in boats laden with sacrificed animals, …

Medieval Church Discovered in Bulgaria

Medieval Church Discovered in Bulgaria

14th Century Murals With ‘Warrior Saints’ Found In Church Of Ancient City Cherven In Bulgaria RUSE, BULGARIA—Archaeologist reports that a fourteenth-century Christian church decorated with murals has been discovered in northeastern Bulgaria’s medieval city of Cherven. The church is the sixteenth to be uncovered in the Cherven Archaeological Preserve. Fragments of the frescoes include images …

Melting Ice Reveals a Lost Viking-era Highway in Norway’s Mountains

Melting Ice Reveals a Lost Viking-era Highway in Norway’s Mountains

Melting Ice Reveals a “Lost” Viking-era Highway in Norway’s Mountains As the glaciers of Scanadvia melt, the long-forgotten journeys of intrepid Vikings are revealed.  Reported in the journal Antiquity today, a retreating Lendbreen glacier in the mountains of Norway has recently revealed a mountain pᴀss used by Vikings over 1,000 years ago, along with a treasure trove …

A Lowa teenager searching for Arrowheads finds a 30,000-year-old mastodon jawbone instead

A Lowa teenager searching for Arrowheads finds a 30,000-year-old mastodon jawbone instead

A Lowa teenager searching for Arrowheads finds a 30,000-year-old mastodon jawbone instead When hunting for arrowheads on an Iowa farm a teenager got a huge surprise. Instead of any arrowheads, the teen found a 30-inch jaw bone of a mastodon — a prehistoric hairy elephant, related to the mammoth.  According to WHO-TV, a paleontology unit …