Eerie train graveyard gives a glimpse into the golden age of Soviet steam trains In Russia’s central Perm region, near the village of Shumkovo, a cemetery lies on the sidetrack. Instead of tombs and headstones, it is filled with trains from the 20th century. There are dozens of steam locomotives, the oldest dating back to …

Mysterious 520 million-year-old sea monster with tentacles coming out of its mouth discovered A recent research finds that the discovery of a fossil demonstrating an underwater marine monster with 18 tentacles surrounding its mouth has helped solve a modern-day puzzle about the origins of a gelatinous carnivore called a comb jelly. The once unexplained “sea …

UK Archaeologist Claims To Have Found Jesus Christ’s Childhood Home In Israel The stone altar 2,800 years old offers insights into the acquisition of Atroth in Jordan. An archaeologist from Britain sheds new light on a fascinating ancient site under a convent in Nazareth. Ken Darke, a professor at the University of Reading, investigates the …

1,300-Year-old Hindu temple discovered in Northwest Pakistan 1300-year-old Hindu Temple of Lord Vishnu was discovered in Swat district of Pakistan. It is the first temple of Gandhara civilisation discovered in Swat district. It has been discovered by Pakistani and Italian archaeological experts at a mountain in northwest Pakistan’s Swat district. According to the reports, the archaeologist …

Israel uncovers King David-era fortress on Golan Heights The Golan Antiquities Authority’s excavations uncovered a fortified complex between the 11th to 10th centuries BCE from the time of King David. This unprecedented fortified complex raises new research concerns regarding the Iron Age settlement of the Golan. Archaeologists claim that the fort was built by the kingdom …

Temple where Jesus reportedly healed bleeding woman found in Israel The University of Haifa has excavated an ancient church, claimed by archaeologists to be the site of a biblical “miracle,” at Golan Heights in Israel. Professor Adi Erlich, referring to a biblical story in which Jesus stops the bleeding of a woman who had been suffering …

How midnight digs at a holy Tibetan cave opened a window to prehistoric humans living on the roof of the world New DNA data has confirmed that a Himalayan cave high on the Tibetan Plateau once hosted representatives of the enigmatic species of extinct human beings known as Denisovans, research recently published in the journal Science …

Jerusalem’s Western Wall yields four 1,000-year-old gold coins Four gold coins were recently found in a pottery jar uncovered during an excavation in West Wall Plaza in the Old City of Jerusalem. The valuable 1000-year-old coins show the political and historic power change between the two Muslim dynasties that controlled the city at the time. …

Stash of pure, 24-carat gold coins unearthed in Israel During the summer break, two Israeli teens discovered a cache of hundreds of gold coins dated back 1,100 years. In an archaeological excavation in Yavne in central Israel, the cache, buried in a clay pot, was uncovered by the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA). The coins date …