Ancient mᴀss grave, WWII bunker among new finds in Istanbul’s Haydarpaşa dig The ongoing archaeological excavation on the premises of Istanbul’s iconic Haydarpaşa Train Station entered a new phase with the recent removal of concrete platforms, with ancient mᴀss graves, a mausoleum and a bunker used during World War II joining a long list of …

Bosnian pyramid dated at nearly 25,000 years old When Dr. Semir “Sam” Osmanagic discovered the first Bosnian pyramid, he suspected it was a find that could force the re-writing of history. But what he did not know how extremely old this structure really was. The proof came in June 2012 when a team of volunteers, …

Marble Source for Greek Archaic Sculpture Identified The source of marble for a statue of Apollo on the Greek island of Delos has been a mystery to art historians and archaeologists for decades. The stone’s chemistry pointed geochemists to the southern end of the nearby island of Naxos, but no one thought there were ancient …

Possible Neanderthal Hunting Tactic Explored Juan Negro crouched in the shadows just outside a cave, wearing his headlamp. For a brief moment, he wasn’t an ornithologist at the Spanish National Research Council’s Doñana Biological Station in Seville. He was a Neandertal, intent on catching dinner. As he waited in the cold, dark hours of the …

Treasure hunters explode 2500-year-old Lycian Rock-cut Tombs in Turkey Treasure hunters have exploded the entrance of a 2,500-year-old rock-cut tomb, one of the six ancient sepulchres in the Elmalı district of the southern province of Antalya. “These are cultural heritages, we must protect them to leave to the next generations,” Durmuş Altan, an archaeologist, told Demirören News …

Who Were the First People to Arrive in the Azores? A group of international academics discovered evidence that people inhabited islands in the Azores archipelago 700 years earlier than previously thought. The group explains their research of sediment cores taken from lakes on some of the archipelago’s islands in their report, which was published in …

Skeleton with bird skull in its mouth identified as 12-year-old Scandinavian girl from 17th century When long-ᴅᴇᴀᴅ human remains are found buried in unusual circumstances, anthropologists are usually able to piece together why. But the bones of a child that lived just a couple of hundred years ago in Poland are proving to be a …

12,000-year-old mᴀssive underground tunnels are real and stretch from Scotland to Turkey Is it possible that ancient cultures were interconnected thousands of years ago? According to thousands of underground tunnels that stretch from North Scotland towards the Mediterranean the answer is a big yes. While the reason behind these sophisticated tunnels remains a mystery, many …

Archaeologists Extract 1,300-Year-Old Wooden Ski From Norwegian Ice The long-lost ski of a pair used more than 1,300 years ago has been discovered on a Norwegian mountain top. The first ski was uncovered in 2014 and seven years later, the Digervarden ice patch melted enough to reveal its wooden counterpart – together they make the …