24,000-Year-Old Animal Found Alive After Being Preserved in Siberian Permafrost During the Upper Paleolithic era, a multicellular organism was frozen almost the time in history when humans first set foot into North America. About 24,000 years later, it has been found alive after sleeping for millennia.  This turned out to be a very huge discovery …

Ice Age humans in Israel lived the good life while contemporaries starved — study Researchers in Israel recently uncovered remains that revealed the life of ancient humans that lived near the Sea of Galilee about 23,000 years ago. With this new discovery, experts were able to figure out how these residents managed to thrive amid …

Did ‘unicorns’ co-exist with humans? Yes, but they were just rhinos Sorry, guys, but I’m going to be a killjoy on this one. But first, the good news: According to a study published last month in the American Journal of Applied Science, a species called Elasmotherium sibiricum — the “Siberian unicorn” — went extinct much …

Golden Pectoral and Bronze Mirror- Discoveries of Archaeologists in a Siberian Barrow The archaeological site Chinge-Tey is located in the Touran-Uyuk valley in northern Tuva, a republic in the Asian part of the Russian Federation. It is called the ‘Siberian Valley of the Kings’ because of the many large barrows with rich equipment, dating back …

1,500-Year-Old Mosaic Depicts Jesus Feeding 5000 People Unearthed Near The Galilee Sea A 1,500-year-old mosaic depicting Jesus’s feeding of the five thousand has been unearthed during an excavation of an ancient city near the Sea of Galilee. The discovery of the so-called Burnt Church in Hippos, northern Israel, has enthralled archaeologists who have spent the …

Archaeology shock: Ancient skeleton and gold found buried in Siberia’s ‘Valley of Kings’ The incredible archaeological discovery was made by a team of Polish researchers on the Southern Siberian Steppe. This barren part of the Russian Federation is known as the “Siberian Valley of the Kings” thanks to mysterious structures dotting its landscape. Ancient mounds …

Researchers Say 5000-year-old Metal Tubes May’ve Been Used As Straws For Drinking A set of gold and silver tubes found 125 years ago in the northern Caucasus are likely drinking straws, not sceptres, according to a re-analysis of the ancient artefacts. Russian archaeologist Nikolai Veselovsky uncovered the items in 1897 at the Maikop Kurgan burial mound …

4,500-year-old avenues lined with ancient tombs discovered in Saudi Arabia A vast 4,500-year-old network of ‘funerary avenues’ lined with well-preserved Bronze Age tombs has been uncovered in Saudi Arabia. In a new paper, researchers detail the arrangement of around 18,000 tombs, spanning thousands of miles in the Saudi Arabian counties of Al-‘Ula and Khaybar. They …

Hybrid animal in 4500-year-old tomb is earliest known bred by humans Mesopotamians were using hybrids of domesticated donkeys and wild ᴀsses to pull their war wagons 4,500 years ago — at least 500 years before horses were bred for the purpose, a new study reveals. The analysis of ancient DNA from animal bones unearthed in …