GompH๏τhere Butchering Camp Discovered in Chile Archaeologists have uncovered a prehistoric site in South America where hunter-gatherers butchered a now-extinct elephant relative more than 12,000 years ago. A study, published in the open-access journal PLOS ONE, details the excavation and analysis of a recently discovered site in the Tagua Tagua lake region in central Chile. The …

The World’s Oldest Mummies “Chile’s Ancient Mummies Older than Egypt’s” At the beginning of the 20th century, mummies dating back 2000 years before the Egyptians were found in the Atacama Desert of Chile, the driest place in the world. No, you didn’t read that wrong! Chile’s ancient mummies are thousands of years older than the …

Rare Inca Tunic Unearthed in Chile A new study co-authored by a George Washington University research professor examines the Inka Empire’s (also known as the Incan Empire and the Inca Empire) instruments of culture and control through a well-preserved article of clothing discovered in a centuries-old Chilean cemetery. Researchers excavating the burial site along Caleta …

The scientific community is perplexed by the discovery of a mummified Alien body in the Atacama desert The mummified alien body from the Atacama Desert is at the top of the list when it comes to findings that the science world shudders at the thought of. When it was found in 2003, no scientist could …

The 7,000-Year-Old Elongated Skull Mummies Of Chile The Chinchorro culture existed on the coast of present-day northern Chile and southern Peru as much as 9,000 years ago, and interestingly they purposefully mummified their ᴅᴇᴀᴅ. Mummification first arose about 7,000 years ago, making them 4,000 years older than the same practice carried out in Egypt. The …

Palaeontologists Unearth 139 Million-Year-Old Pregnant Dinosaur Fossil in Chile Archaeologists in Chile have unearthed the fossilized remains of a 13ft-long pregnant ichthyosaur from a melting glacier -marking the first time a complete ichthyosaur has been found in the country. The 139-million-year-old fossil was carefully collected by helicopter following an expedition in March and April this …

Evidence For Biggest Earthquake In Human History That Caused 66-Ft Tall Tsunamis Found In Chile Archaeologists have found evidence of the largest known earthquake in human history — a terrifying magnitude-9.5 megaquake that caused a 5,000-mile-long (8,000 kilometres) tsunami and prompted human populations to abandon nearby coastlines for 1,000 years, a new study finds. The …

Drowned Stone Age fishermen were examined with a forensic method that could rewrite prehistory Human bones dating to the Stone Age found in what is now northern Chile are the remains of a fisherman who died by drowning, scientists have discovered. The man lived about 5,000 years ago, and he was around 35 to 45 …

A tsunami wiped out ancient communities in the Atacama Desert 3,800 years ago A recent study of geological deposits and archaeological remains has identified a mᴀssive earthquake and tsunami that wiped out communities along the coastline of Chile’s the Atacama Desert around 3,800 years ago. Studying the ancient disaster—and people’s responses to it—could help with …