A 5,000-year-old relic from the Great Pyramid discovered in a cigar box in Scotland A ‘chance discovery’ at the University of Aberdeen could shed new light on the Great Pyramid with museum staff uncovering a ‘lost’ artifact – one of only three objects ever recovered from inside the Wonder of the Ancient World. In 1872 …

Archaeologists uncover ancient street food shop in Pompeii Archaeologists in Pompeii, the city buried in a volcanic eruption in 79 AD, have made the extraordinary find of a frescoed H๏τ food and drinks shop that served up the ancient equivalent of street food to Roman pᴀssersby. Known as a termopolium, Latin for H๏τ drinks counter, …

66 Roman Army Campsites Identified in Spain According to a statement released by the University of Exeter, more than 60 Roman Army camps have been identified on the Iberian Peninsula, where Roman soldiers battled local peoples in the first century B.C. While seeking to expand their empire and procure natural resources such as tin and …

16th-Century Shipwreck’s Cargo of Elephant Ivory Analyzed BBC News reports that an international team of researchers led by Alida de Flamingh of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign was able to reconstruct complete mitochondrial genomes for 17 distinct elephant herds with samples taken from 100 tusks recovered from the Bom Jesus, a Portuguese trading vessel …

1,000-year-old cross buried in Scottish field thought to have belonged to the king Since painstaking restoration, a stunning Anglo-Saxon silver cross has arisen from under 1,000 years of encrusted dirt. Such is its quality that whoever commissioned this treasure may have been a high-standing cleric or even a king. It was a sorry-looking object when …

Mᴀssive Underground City Guides Us Deep Down to Ancient Times Chicago, like a lot of other modern cities, has a hidden secret: It’s home to miles of pᴀssageways deep underground that allow commuters to get from one place to another without risking nasty weather. Los Angeles, Boston, New York, and Dallas all have their own networks …

An Astonishingly Small Stone Carving That Has the Power to Change Art History A new discovery by researchers at the University of Cincinnati is upending the way we think about the development of Western Civilization. More than one year after discovering the 3,500-year-old tomb of a Bronze age warrior in Greece, an incredible piece of …

Sunken Medieval Village is Eerily Emerging from an Italian Lake At the bottom of a lake, a forgotten medieval town that has been ‘frozen in time’ looks ready to resurface, probably giving tourists a direct glimpse back into the past. Since 1947, the Italian village of Fabbriche di Careggine has been submerged under the waters …

Mysteries of the 2,500-year-old ʙuттer found at the bottom of a loch In Perth and Kinross, ʙuттer dated back 2,500 years was discovered at the bottom of a loch. Within a wooden ʙuттer bowl, manufactured by an Iron Age culture, traces of milk content were found preserved. Archaeologists at the bottom of Loch Tay uncovered …