Hoard of silver and gold coins unearthed in central Hungary An attack by the Ottoman Army in the 16th century may have caused panicked Hungarians to bury a stash of precious silver and gold coins. Today, on a modern-day farm in Hungary, archaeologists have discovered this buried treasure. In 2019, archaeologists discovered 150 ancient coins …

Sultan’s Grave Discovered in Eastern Turkey The graves of the SeljukThe Anadolu Agency reports that the grave of Kilij Arslan I, a Seljuk sultan who reigned from A.D. 1092 to 1107, was discovered during investigations ahead of construction work in eastern Turkey by a team of researchers from Dicle University. The team members also found …

The Unique Architectural Heritage Of Icelandic Turf Houses that Hidden In The Landscape Memorable, popular, and rumored to be the inspiration for Tolkien’s hobbit holes, turf houses are a rare form of home for the people who live in difficult climates. For millennia, they have existed, and although layouts and materials may have changed, the basic …

300,000-Year-Old Wooden Throwing Stick Found in Germany In Germany, a 300,000-year-old hunting stick able to kill big predators has been discovered. Used by the extinct human subspecies Homo heidelbergensis, the wooden throwing stick was capable of killing waterbirds and horses during the Ice Age. It was achieved by conducting trials and looking at what would …

Scientist Finds Hidden Portraits Underneath “Mona Lisa” Forget everything you know about the most famous painting in the world: Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa (1503–17). According to French scientist Pascal Cotte, who has analyzed the painting by reflecting light technology for over 10 years, the Mona Lisa hides another portrait underneath. According to the BBC, the …

A $26M Cimabue masterpiece was found in an elderly woman’s kitchen A missing masterpiece of the 13th century was sold for nearly 24.2 million Euros (26.8 million dollars), just months after it was found hanging in a French kitchen. “Christ Mocked,” by the Florentine painter Cimabue, sold for more than four times the pre-sale estimate …

Prehistoric teeth fossils dating back 9.7 million years ‘could rewrite human history’ In Southwestern Germany, a team of researchers discovered teeth that were millions of years old and presumably belonged to an ancient Euro-Asian primate last September. Yet after the discovery was made public, controversy opened up about the interpretation of our earliest existence. News …

Temple Dated to Fifth Century B.C. Found in Turkey According to a Hurriyet Daily News report, a team of researchers led by Elif Koparal of Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University identified the sites of hundreds of Neolithic settlements and a 2,500-year-old temple dedicated to the goddess Aphrodite during a survey of the Urla-Çeşme peninsula, which …

Treasures dating back some 9,500 years is uncovered in Alpine glaciers as climate change causes ice to melt The group climbed the steep mountainside, clambering across an Alpine glacier, before finding what they were seeking: A crystal vein filled with the precious rocks needed to sculpt their tools. That is what archaeologists have deduced after …