Ancient DNA Reveals Irish Are Not Celts – Irish Ancestors Came From Biblical Lands – Scientists Say The possibility that ancient bones were found in County Antrim under an Irish pub in the mid-2000s has cast doubt over whether the Irish people are really linked to ancient Celts. Bertie Currie clearing the land in 2006 and made a …

Farmer looking for abandoned antlers stumbles upon largest Ever haul of Roman coins It makes rather more sense as it was loot from the various ‘barbarian’ nations crashing around Northern Europe during the period of the decline and eventual fall of the Western Roman Empire. ‘One of the largest ever hauls of treasure from the …

2,000-Year-Old Sundial Unearthed in Roman Town A rare and intact 2,000-year-old Roman sundial was discovered in central Italy, engraved with the name of the man who commissioned it. Researchers from the University of Cambridge made the find during an excavation in the Roman town of Interamna Lirenas, near Monte Cᴀssino. Inscribed on the sundial is …

Bones of 13th-century saint found hidden inside the small silver coffin The bones of a Polish saint that have been lost for centuries have been re-discovered by chance during restoration work in a Christian basilica in Silesia. Conservators were working on the tomb of St. Jadwiga in Trzebnica, Lower Silesia, in southern Poland when they made the chance discovery. …

300 Million Year Old Enigmatic Ancient Wheel Found Deep In Mine? The rare find was made in the Ukrainian town of Donetsk, down a coal mine. As it could not be safely or successfully cut out due to the nature of the sandstone in which it was embedded, the mysterious artifact looking much like an …

Newgrange: The Mᴀssive Irish Tomb That’s Older Than The Pyramids Yep, 5,000 years. That’s older than Stonehenge. It’s older than the great Egyptian pyramids, too. And five millennia later, it hasn’t lost any of its wonders. Newgrange was built around 3200 B.C. — hundreds of years before the Great Pyramid of Giza (2500 B.C.) and …

Scottish storms unearth 1,500-year-old Viking-era cemetery The native Picts, a Celtic-language speaking tribe, once populated the Scottish Islands, similar to the natives that live on what is now Scotland.  Several powerful storms on Scotland’s Orkney Islands have now revealed ancient human remains in a Pictish and Viking cemetery dated back to about 1,500 years ago. To order to protect the damage …

Trnava archaeologists made a 6,000-year-old discovery Ceramic fragments found under the fortification wall prove the skilfulness of the Lengyel culture. In Trnava’s Zelený Kríček settlement pit, archeologists found several decorated ceramics fragments, antler tools and fragments of stone tools older than 6,000 years. The investor is building a polyfunctional object near the gallery and the …

Remains of Ottoman soldiers unearthed after 108 years The corpses of 30 Ottoman soldiers are discovered in Istanbul’s neighborhood. Rahmi Asal of the Istanbul Archeology Museums Department said the men had served in the Balkan War’s 86th Ottoman Army Battalion. A mᴀss grave belonging to soldiers who died while serving in the Ottoman Army’s 86th …