An ancient fortress found by archaeologists may be a lost royal city
An ancient fortress found by archaeologists may be a lost royal city A 2,000-year-old fortress built on a mountainside in what’s now Iraqi Kurdistan could be part of a lost royal city called Natounia. With the help of drone pH๏τography, archaeologists excavated and catalogued the site during a series of digs between 2009 and 2022. …
Secret Catacombs With Incredible Ancient Skeletons Covered In Priceless Jewelry
Secret Catacombs With Incredible Ancient Skeletons Covered In Priceless Jewelry They call them the Catacomb Saints – ancient Roman corpses that were exhumed from the catacombs of Rome, given ficтιтious names and sent abroad as relics of saints from the 16th century to the 19th century. They were decorated with extreme lavishness, as you can …
What was Otzi the Iceman’s last meal, 5,300 years ago?
What was Otzi the Iceman’s last meal, 5,300 years ago? In 1991, German tourists discovered, in the Eastern Italian Alps, a human body that was later determined to be the oldest naturally preserved ice mummy, known as Otzi or the Iceman. Now, researchers reporting in the journal Current Biology on July 12 who have conducted …
A perfectly preserved 700-year-old mummy in brown liquid looked only a few months old
A perfectly preserved 700-year-old mummy in brown liquid looked only a few months old The skin of a mummy discovered by accident had been perfectly preserved for over 700 years. Road workers stumbled upon a jaw-dropping corpse belonging to a high-ranking woman from China’s Ming Dynasty. News of the remarkable archaeological breakthrough on in the city of …
Archaeologists have found a previously unknown Roman city with buildings of monumental proportions in Spain’s Aragon Region
Archaeologists have found a previously unknown Roman city with buildings of monumental proportions in Spain’s Aragon Region Archaeologists from the University of Zaragoza in Spain have discovered a previously unknown Roman city with buildings of monumental proportions. The urban complex, which existed between the first and second centuries, had “buildings of immense sizes” as well …
Graves at Williamsburg’s First Baptist Church Will Be Excavated
Graves at Williamsburg’s First Baptist Church Will Be Excavated Descendants, archaeologists and researchers alike gathered Monday for the long-awaited beginning of burial excavations at the original First Baptist Church site. The First Baptist Church descendant community unanimously voted in March to begin excavating three grave shafts in order to learn the race, age, Sєx and anything else …
Portuguese scientists discover a 100,000-year-old case of deafness
Portuguese scientists discover a 100,000-year-old case of deafness Around 100,000 years ago somewhere in Morocco a hunter-gatherer started stumbling about suffering vertigo and hearing loss. Now, almost 50 years since parts of his skeleton were found as fossils, scientists in Coimbra University have announced the discovery of the “oldest case of deafness in a human …
7.5 Million Annual Elephant Skulls Fossil Were Found in Turkey Choerolophodon Pentelic
7.5 Million Annual Elephant Skulls Fossil Were Found in Turkey “Choerolophodon Pentelic” A complete skull fossil from 7.5 million years ago was discovered on the bank of the Yamula Dam in the central Kayseri Province of Turkey. This is a major discovery. The skull belongs to Choerolophodon Pentelic, known as the ancestor of elephants. The …
5,200-year-old stone carving chrysalis found in north China
5,200-year-old stone carving chrysalis found in north China According to the provincial archaeological research insтιтute, archaeologists discovered a stone-carved silkworm chrysalis dating back at least 5,200 years in north China’s Shanxi Province last month. The stone-carved chrysalis was discovered in a semi-crypt house at the Shangguo Site in Wenxi County, near the city of Yuncheng. …
Ancient grave found right under kindergarten
Ancient grave found right under kindergarten Builders found human bones when doing reconstruction on a kindergarten in Brestovany, a village near Trnava. They called archaeologists from the Monuments Board of Trnava and the Western Slovakia Museum in Trnava who found that the builders had discovered a grave. More detailed research showed that it is a …