Archaeologist discovered One of the earliest images of Jesus’ unearthed in an Egyptian tomb The image has been replicated countless times in churches and artwork, but a team of Spanish archaeologists believes they have found one of the earliest images of Jesus. A mysterious underground room dating from between the sixth and seventh century AD …

Are Egyptologists Close to Finding a Pharaoh’s Intact Tomb? Archeologists discovered a 3,500-year-old stone chest in the ruins above the Deir el-Bahari Egyptian site. The remarkable discovery, concealed near Hatshepsut’s famous Mortuary Temple, suggests a nearby intact royal tomb. There were different items wrapped in linens in the box. One held a sacrificial goose skeleton …

Eggshell beads made by hunter-gatherers 33,000 years ago used as a social network New U of T Scarborough research offers physical evidence that ancient hunter-gatherers were exchanging ostrich eggshell beads in order to form large-scale social networks.  The exchange of ostrich eggshell beads is thought to be the earliest example of social networking among humans. …

Scientists identify ‘mummy juice’ in Egyptian sarcophagus In Alexandria, Egypt, there was opened a mysterious black granite sarcophagus that dated back to the time Alexander the Grand invaded the city in 331 B.C., has been opened. The finding was believed that the huge sarcophagus contained Alexander’s remains at the beginning of this month and that …

Medieval Burial Cave Discovered in Gabon The finding of a burial site from the 14th century deep in the tropical forest of Gabon will demonstrate a little known period in Africa’s history. A cave located in the south-east of the country, which was discovered in 2018 by a French geo-archaeologist, contains hundreds of medieval artifacts with …

Teenage girl’s skeleton discovered in a mysterious grave near Egyptian pyramid The skeletal remains, hugging in the crypt, of a 13-year-old girl, have been discovered by Egyptian archeologists excavating the pyramid ruins 60 miles out of Cairo. It is a mystery how or when she died, though the experts say the site itself dates back …

Skeletons of war ᴅᴇᴀᴅ from 11,000 BC go on show at the British Museum Lying on their left sides, curled together, the two skeletons on display for the first time at the British Museum look peacefully laid to rest. But the razor-sharp stone flakes among the bones are the remains of ancient weapons. The two …

Homo erectus Fossils and Tools Unearthed in Ethiopia Africa’s smallest Homo erectus cranium and the various stone tools discovered in Gona, Ethiopia, indicate that human ancestors were more varied, both physically and behaviorally, than previously known. A Cranium was discovered by an international study team headed by the U.S. and Spanish scientists, including a Michigan geologist university, …

Early humans feasted on fish in the Sahara Desert 10,000 years ago A large number of animal remains – including fish – have been discovered in a location in the Sahara Desert by archaeologists, shedding new light on the ancient peoples who once lived there. According to a study published in the open-access journal PLOS …