Archaeologists unearth ancient settlement dating back 11,800 years in Turkey

Archaeologists unearth ancient settlement dating back 11,800 years in Turkey On Thursday in south-eastern Turkey, an ancient historic site dating back to 11,800 years was discovered. The area has been home to many different civilizations including the Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians, Hitтιтes, Urartians, Romans, Akkadians, Sumerians and Ottoman civilizations. This region belongs to the province of …

Why There Are Six Million Skeletons Stuffed Into The Tunnels Beneath Paris

Why There Are Six Million Skeletons Stuffed Into The Tunnels Beneath Paris One of his mysterious entrances into the French capital Paris should you be closely looking for. But if you trip over it, it shows a dark and dank and narrow tunnel underground world with a fascinating history. The bones of 6 million people …

Newly-Discovered Remains Suggest Earliest Humans Came From Europe, Not Africa

Newly-Discovered Remains Suggest Earliest Humans Came From Europe, Not Africa For 200,000 years on earth has been Homo sapien, give or take a few ten-thousand-year stretches. Much of that time is shrouded in the fog of prehistory. Everything we know has been ᴀssembled into the principles of evolutionary theory by deciphering fossil record. Nonetheless, new discoveries …

Real-Life Excalibur Found Underwater In Bosnia – Medieval Sword In Stone Pulled Out

Real-Life Excalibur Found Underwater In Bosnia – Medieval Sword In Stone Pulled Out The 700-year-old weapon is being compared to King Arthur’s legendary magical sword because of similarities in how it was discovered. According to ancient legend, King Arthur was the only person able to pull a sword called Excalibur from a stone, making him …

6,000-Year-Old Pre-Viking Artifacts Discovered in Norway as Climate Change Melts Glaciers

6,000-Year-Old Pre-Viking Artifacts Discovered in Norway as Climate Change Melts Glaciers Over thousands of years, ancient objects hidden in snow and ice in the Norwegian mountains appear at an unprecedented rate, with archeologists trying to gather them all before it is too late. The research results were remarkable: iron arrowheads from 1,500 years old, tunics …

Divers exploring a shipwreck share video of encounter with enormous alien-like egg sac

Divers exploring a shipwreck share video of encounter with enormous alien-like egg sac The deep seas reveal the most alien-looking life we will ever have without leaving Earth. Over and over. This was exactly the case at the recent water dive in the vicinity of Ørstafjorden, Norway. While discovering a shipwreck of the Second World …

‘Lovers of Modena’ Buried Hand-in-Hand Turn Out to Be Men

‘Lovers of Modena’ Buried Hand-in-Hand Turn Out to Be Men The investigators have shown that a skeleton couple found holding their hands at a tomb in Italy were both men. When it was discovered in Modena’s Ciro Menotti cemetery in 2009, the skeletons made global headlines. Their gender could not be determined because it was …

Ancient Romans Used Molten Iron to Repair Streets Before Vesuvius Erupted

Ancient Romans Used Molten Iron to Repair Streets Before Vesuvius Erupted Whilst mostly related to the Vesuvius eruption, Pompeii’s legacy goes beyond the catastrophe and takes account of a vast chapter in history, from pre-Roman temples to astounding frescoes. As it turns out, the legacy also boasts its fair share of innovative features, as was identified …

Frozen moss reveals fatal final journey of 5,300-year-old ice mummy

Frozen moss reveals fatal final journey of 5,300-year-old ice mummy According to a study released on October 30th, 2019, in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by James Dickson of the University of Glasgow (UK) and colleagues at the University of Innsbruck, Alongside the famous Ötzi, the Iceman is buried, at least 75 species of bryophytes -mosses …

Medieval pilgrim tombs found below Rome street

Medieval pilgrim tombs found below Rome street ROME, ITALY—BBC reports that medieval burials were unearthed during utility work on the Via del Governo Vecchio in central Rome. The graves had been damaged by previous construction projects. According to Archeological Superintendence the city found two graves dating from the Middle Ages during gas works on Via del …