Huge Megalithic 7,000-Year-Old Site Dolmen Of Guadalperal Emerges From Dry Lake In Spain
Huge Megalithic 7,000-Year-Old Site Dolmen Of Guadalperal Emerges From Dry Lake In Spain This summer’s H๏τ weather has been extremely troublesome in many European countries. Spain suffered the worst drought in decades. An unexpected side-effect of the warm weather has been discovering unknown archaeological sites. One of them is a mysterious megalithic monument that emerged …
Burials in Indonesia Offer Clues to Migration
Burials in Indonesia Offer Clues to Migration Scientists have discovered three bodies on an Indonesian island which provide an insight into the movements of early humans, thousands of years ago. The bodies, found across three burial sites, form part of the excavation and analysis of 50,000 bones unearthed along the south coast of Indonesia’s Alor …
Viking-Era Arrowhead Discovered in Norway
Viking-Era Arrowhead Discovered in Norway “Oh, look at this little beauty”, the team of archaeologists enthusiastically exclaim in their Facebook update, which includes a video of the three-bladed arrowhead. “The last person who touched it was a Viking,” the post reads. The team of glacial archaeologists from Innlandet county’s Secrets of the Ice and the …
Mᴀssive Roman Phallus Relief Carving Uncovered in Spain
Mᴀssive Roman Phallus Relief Carving Uncovered in Spain A large Roman-era relief carving of a phallus was uncovered by archaeologists excavating in Nueva Carteya, Córdoba, Spain, earlier this month, according to an announcement by the area’s local history museum. At more than one-and-a-half feet long, it could be the largest preserved Roman phallus carving, according …
Ancient Hidden City Discovered Under Lake тιтicaca
Ancient Hidden City Discovered Under Lake тιтicaca Five minutes away from the town of Tiquina, on the shores of Lake тιтicaca, archaeologists found the remains of an ancient civilization under the waters of the lake. The find was made 10 years ago, by Christophe Delaere, an archaeologist from the Free University of Belgium, by following …
Untouched and Unlooted 4,400-yr-old Tomb of Egyptian High Priest Discovered
Untouched and Unlooted 4,400-yr-old Tomb of Egyptian High Priest Discovered Archaeologists in Egypt have made a new tomb discovery — the final resting place of a high priest, untouched for 4,400 years, decorated with hieroglyphics. The secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, Mostafa Waziri, described the find as “one of a kind in the …
Are the ‘Chachapoya Clouds Warriors’ of ancient Peru descendants of Europeans?
Are the ‘Chachapoya Clouds Warriors’ of ancient Peru descendants of Europeans? At 4,000 km upriver you reach the foothills of the Andes in Peru, and there lived the people of the Chachapoya, also called “The Warriors of the Clouds.” There is little first-hand or contrasting knowledge of the Chachapoyas. Much of what we do know …
Book of the ᴅᴇᴀᴅ: The ancient Egyptian guide to the afterlife
Book of the ᴅᴇᴀᴅ: The ancient Egyptian guide to the afterlife The “Book of the ᴅᴇᴀᴅ” is a modern-day name given to a series of ancient Egyptian texts that the Egyptians believed would help the ᴅᴇᴀᴅ navigate the underworld, as well as serve other purposes. Copies of these texts were sometimes buried with the ᴅᴇᴀᴅ. …
Hell’s Shells: 90 Million-Year-Old Egg From Turtle Bigger Than Humans
Hell’s Shells: 90 Million-Year-Old Egg From Turtle Bigger Than Humans A giant fossilized turtle egg — believed to have been laid by a turtle the length of a fully grown human 90 million years ago — has been found with the embryo inside. The tennis ball-sized egg, which is protected by an unusually thick outer …
The 9,000-Year-Old Underground Megalithic Settlement of Atlit Yam
The 9,000-Year-Old Underground Megalithic Settlement of Atlit Yam Not far off the coast of the village of Atlit in the Mediterranean Sea, near Haifa in Israel, lies the submerged ruins of the ancient Neolithic site of Atlit Yam. The prehistoric settlement, which dates back to the 7th millennium BC, has been so well preserved by …