Ancient Egyptian Artifacts Unearthed at Temple of Ramesses II A team of researchers led by Sameh Iskander of New York University uncovered foundation deposits, ten large storerooms, and niches cut into the walls of the southwest corner of the Temple of Ramesses II in Abydos. Mostafa Waziri of the Supreme Council of Antiquities said that …

Skeletal remains of half-cat / half-human now on display in Cairo museum The remains of what seems to be a half-human / half-cat have been taken from the secret chamber of the great pyramid, recently uncovered, and are now exhibited in the National Museum in Cairo. Researchers from all around the world have come to …

Archaeologist Discover Paintings of Goddess in 3,000-year-old mummy’s coffin In the coffin of an Egyptian mummy, paintings were found after she was taken out for the first time in over a hundred years. In the campaign to preserve Ta-Kr-Hb – pronounced “takerheb” – a priestess or princess from Thèbes, a Scottish conservative made this discovery. …

The Tarkhan Dress Confirmed to Be the World’s Oldest Dress This tattered V-neck linen shirt, currently on display in the UCL Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, is the world’s oldest woven garment. A recent radiocarbon testing conducted by the University of Oxford has established with 95% accuracy that the dress was made between 3482-3102 BC. …

1.5-Million-Year-Old Footprints Reveal Human Ancestor Walked Like Us Homo erectus last walked through the Earth for thousands of years, but our fossil ancestors likely had a few behaviours in common with humans today. In a new study, researchers have examined a set of 1.5-million-year-old footprints discovered in Kenya, revealing new insight on how they moved …

The 200,000-year-old city found in Southern Africa may rewrite history In South Africa, about 150 km west of port Maputo, Mozambique, a giant stone city has been discovered. It became possible to determine the age of the site by measuring the erosion rate of the dolerite. The 1500 square kilometer metropolis was believed to have …

Stone made of Pure Oxygen found in Africa In 1990 a strange type bluestone was found in Sierra Leone, West Africa by geologist and archeologist Angelo Pitoni, named the Sky stone (12000 BC). The enigmatic stone was sent to research laboratories worldwide, The tests were carried out in laboratories of the University of Geneva, Rome, …

‘Little Foot’ skull reveals how this more than 3 million-year-old human ancestor lived High-resolution micro-CT scanning of the skull of the fossil specimen known as “Little Foot” has revealed some aspects of how this Australopithecus species used to live more than 3 million years ago. The ~3.67 million-year-old fossil specimen’s meticulous excavation cleaning and testing of the …

The Lost City Of Heracleion Discovered Deep Underwater After 1,200 Years For centuries, the ‘ lost city of Atlantis has eluded explorers and is almost certainly the stuff of myth. Staggeringly, though, an ancient city that is Atlantis in all but name has emerged from under the sea near Alexandria — and now the lost world …