2,100-Year-Old King’s Mausoleum Discovered in China An elaborate mausoleum that was built for a king 2,100 years ago has been unearthed in China. Archaeologists discovered numerous precious treasures from jade artifacts and musical instruments to life-sized decorated chariots and weapons, which were buried with king Liu Fei in an area of modern-day Xuyi County. Liu …

A 5,000-Year-Old Settlement Found Near Mysterious Sanxingdui Ruins, China On Tuesday, Chinese archaeologists revealed they had discovered an important site next to the ruins of Sanxingdui, which they claim to be a settlement about 5,000 years old. For its striking resemblance to the main character in the Angry Birds mobile app, an ancient clay pig …

10,000-Year-Old Neolithic Figurines Discovered in Jordan Burials From classical paintings of crucified Messiahs to Damien Hirst’s starkly grim tanks of pickled sharks, death is a subject that has haunted artistic imaginations throughout the ages. As it turns out, a trove of archaeological discoveries in Jordan suggests that death and an unusual process of digging up the …

Israeli archaeologists unearth 1,500-year-old Byzantine church The remnants of a church of the 6th century — possibly a monastery — were discovered during an Israel Antiquities Authority salvage excavation in the Galilee town of Kfar Kama. The site adjacent to Mount Tabor is holy to Christians, who since the early Byzantine era have identified the area as …

The 7,000-year-old stone bracelet is oldest ever found in the world A Paleolithic man’s stone bracelet claimed to revolutionize our understanding of early human development. Scientific analysis suggests that the enchanting find is a 65,000 to 70,000 years old.  It’s the oldest piece of jewelry of its kind in the world that experts believe to be …

Newly discovered Kazakhstan pyramid may be older than certain Egyptian pyramids Recently, archeologists in Kazakhstan have unearthed a pyramid-shaped mausoleum about 3,000 years old which makes it older than certain, but not all, pyramids of Egypt. In the Sary-Arka area close to the city of Karaganda the extraordinary discovery was made, and the team said …

Millennia-Old Rock Art in Israel Offers Window Into Lost Culture The chance discovery of lines carved into the boulders of an ancient tomb in what is now the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights could offer new insight into an enigmatic culture that thrived thousands of years ago. In a small clearing in the Yehudiya nature reserve, between …

CT Scan of Siberian Mummy Reveals Wounds and Tattoos He was from the mountainous region of modern-day Khakasia, aged 25 to 30 when he died 1,700 years ago. Another CT scan showed the face of his gypsum death mask that was all the rage with the ancient Tashtyk people, who were settled cattle-breeders and farmers known …

1.4-Million-Year-Old Bone Hand Ax Identified According to a BBC report, paleoanthropologists Katsuhiro Sano of Tohoku University and Gen Suwa of the University of Tokyo have identified a 1.4-million-year-old hand ax made from a hippo’s leg bone at Ethiopia’s Konso-Gardula site. Tools at the site are thought to have been crafted by the human ancestor Homo erectus.  Approximately 1.4 …