2,000-Year-Old Rock Art Sites Discovered In Jalapão, Brazil Scientists have discovered 16 new archaeological sites while investigating a large area in Jalapão, in the eastern part of the state of Tocantins, Brazil. The National Historical and Artistic Heritage Insтιтute (Iphan) archaeology team has announced that new archeological sites are believed to contain rock art, including …

Archaeologists Discover Wreckage of Notorious Slave Ship Off Brazil The wreckage of a 19th-century U.S. ship with more than 500 slaves on board may have been identified by archaeologists in the sea of ​​Angra dos Rei, Brazil, according to the local news outlet TV Prefeito. Though researchers are still investigating, they believe it was a …

Pedra do Inga: A 6,000-Year-Old Monument Depicting an Ancient Star Map Its most prominent symbols depict stars, the Milky Way as well as the constellation of Orion. Most glyphs etched on the mᴀssive stone represent animals, fruits, humans, and constellations, but also a plethora of yet unrecognizable symbols and images. There’s a strange, mᴀssive stone …

Reconstruction of 9,600-Year-Old Skull Completed in Brazil In 1997, archaeologists unearthed a skeleton buried in the fetal position at Toca dos Coqueiros, an archaeological site in Brazil’s Serra da Capivara National Park. Based on the size and shape of the skull, they identified the remains as female and named the skeleton Zuzu. But that classification …

Brazil: Fossilised Eggs Dating 60-80 Mn Yrs Ago Belongs To Dinosaurs, Confirms Scientists A nest of fossilized dinosaur eggs have been found in Brazil that would have hatched into vicious carnivores 60 million to 80 million years ago if the eggs were not buried by loose sediment. The five eggs, which are well-preserved were originally …

Satellite Images Aided the Discovery of an Ancient Civilization Buried in the Amazon Long before the arrival of Europeans in the Americas, one of the world’s largest rainforests teemed with people who transformed the woods around them, according to archaeologists who have found new evidence of farms, settlements and roads buried beneath the flora of …

A bizarre chicken-sized dinosaur named lord of the spear is discovered in Brazil With a mane of yellow and brown fur down its back and long ‘needles’ growing from its shoulders, a peacock-like elaborate dinosaur has been identified. The neck spines of the creature are rare in the fossil record and made of keratin, which …

Lidar Reveals Network of Ancient Villages in Brazil’s Rainforest Jose Iriarte and Mark Robinson of the University of Exeter and their multinational team of scientists explored Brazil’s southern Acre State with Lidar remote sensing equipment, according to a statement issued by the University of Exeter, and revealed a sequence of more than 35 villages dating …

A 9,000-year-old head with amputated hands laid over could be the oldest ritual beheading in the Americas The Amazon rain forest has long inspired gruesome stories of ritualistic violence from 19th-century tales of tribes searching for “trophy heads” to Hollywood films such as Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto. But a much longer history than commonly believed can …