Lost City Of Alexander The Great Discovered In Iraq With Old Spy Footage The ‘lost city’ of Alexander the Great was a mystical place where people drank wine and naked philosopher exchanged wisdom, ancient accounts claim. Now, nearly 2,000 years after the great warrior’s death, archaeologists believe the city may have finally been discovered in …

Mᴀssive Lion Sculpture Uncovered in Cambodia According to a report in The Phnom Penh Post, two pieces of a six-foot-tall statue of a lion were unearthed by mine-clearing experts preparing the site of a new groundwater reservoir along the Tonle Sap River. The crew members excavated and cleared mines for a planned groundwater reservoir that will …

4,000-year-old skeletons of mother Clutching a child to her chest at China The loving embrace of a mother and her child lasts for 4,000 years, Chinese archaeologists reported after finding their interlocked skeletons. Archaeologists unearthed proof of a mother’s love in Qinghai province, China, when they discovered the 4,000-year-old skeletons of a mother and child …

Full set of gilt-bronze accessories from the 6th-century tomb The Korea Times reports that additional finds were recovered from a small 1,500-year-old tomb in eastern South Korea where a pair of gilt-bronze shoes were recently excavated from a Silla-era royal tomb complex in Gyeongju, some 371 kilometers southeast of Seoul. These included a small gilt-bronze …

9,000-year-old Neolithic ‘city’ near Jerusalem changes how we think about human evolution The 9,000-year-old metropolis — pre-dating both Britain’s Stonehenge and ancient Egypt’s pyramids — was uncovered during a survey before the construction of a new highway, which is one of the biggest ever found, the Israel Antiquities Authority said. The team estimated a population …

A 1,600-year-old cargo of a Roman merchant ship has been discovered in Caesarea In recent times, divers have discovered some rarity of archaeological artifacts on the bottom of the sea off the coast of Israel in Caesarea. The objects that seem to have been part of a Roman merchant ship cargo that sank some 1,600 …

8th-Century A.D. Rock-Cut Temple Revealed in India On the banks of the Arjuna River at Sivakasi ‘s M Pudhupatti village in India, a three-chambered rock-covered temple, believed to be 1,200 years old, has been identified. The building, cut in the side of a limestone rock, was riddled with thickets and debris until a week ago …

Rare 6-Million-Year-Old Skull of Juvenile Ape Discovered A new cranium of a fossil ape from Shuitangba, a Miocene site in Yunnan province, China has been confirmed by a team of scientists. Dr Denise Su, curator of palaeobotany and paleoecology at The Cleveland Museum of Natural History, co-authored research describing the new skull published online in …

5,500-Year-Old Sumerian Star Map Recorded the Impact of a Mᴀssive Asteroid For more than 150 years scientists have tried to solve the mystery of a notorious cuneiform clay tablet that reveals that in the past the impact case of so-called Köfel was detected. The circular stone-cast tablet was discovered in the late 1800s from the …