Greek Farmer Stumbles Onto 3,400-Year-Old Tomb Hidden Below His Olive Grove The untouched Bronze Age tomb and the skeletons inside will hopefully provide archaeologists with information about the mysterious Minoan civilization. In an extraordinary example of being in the wrong place at the right time, a Greek farmer just made a startling archaeological discovery. A …

Stunned Couple Finds Viking Buried Under Floor While Renovating Home A Norwegian couple made an unusual historic discovery during renovations of their home. First, they found a number of Viking-era artifacts, and then archaeologists declared that they had found a Viking grave, right there, under their floor. Experts have carried out a survey of the …

Neanderthals May Have Created Cave Art in France The oldest-known engravings in Europe, discovered in a French cave sealed up for tens of thousands of years, likely weren’t crafted by modern humans but rather Neanderthals, a new study finds.  Within the cave of La Roche-Cotard 150 miles (240 kilometers) southwest of Paris, the researchers analyzed …

Archaeologists unearth 4,000-year-old ‘Stonehenge of the Netherlands’ Dutch archaeologists have unearthed an approximately 4,000-year-old religious site – nicknamed the “Stonehenge of the Netherlands” – that includes a burial mound that served as a solar calendar. The mound, which contained the remains of about 60 men, women and children, had several pᴀssages through which the sun …

U.S. Repatriates Ancient Coins to Greece Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Chicago, alongside distinguished representatives from Greece and the National Hellenic Museum, conducted a repatriation ceremony on June 16 to return to Greece the largest number of stolen ancient coins seized by U.S. law enforcement officials in recent HSI history. The artifacts included 51 ancient Greek …

Well-Preserved Bronze Age Sword Discovered in Germany Archaeologists in Germany have unearthed a sword from a Bronze Age burial, and the weapon is in such good condition that it still gleams. The 3,000-year-old sword, discovered in the town of Nördlingen in Bavaria, was found in the burial of a man, woman, and child. It appears …

World’s Oldest Intact Shipwreck Found at the Bottom of the Black Sea The oldest intact shipwreck ever found has been discovered at the bottom of the Black Sea. The 75ft Greek trading vessel was found lying whole with its mast, rudders and rowing benches after more than 2,400 years. It was found in a well-known …

Oldest evidence of humans in Greece is 700,000 years old, a quarter of a million years older than previous record Several prehistoric sites in Greece reveal that our human ancestors hunted hippos and elephants between 280,000 and 700,000 years ago. The oldest site pushes back the earliest known hominin presence in the region by up …

A broken pagan statue of the Greek god Pan was unearthed at early church ruins in Istanbul Archaeologists in Istanbul excavating the ruins of an early Christian church have unearthed a pagan statue of the Greek god Pan, who is depicted with goat horns and a naked torso as he plays a reed pipe.  It …