Child’s bones buried 40,000 years ago solve the puzzle of Neanderthal long-standing mystery If it was a boy or a girl, we don’t know. But this ancient child, a Neanderthal, only made it to about two years of age. This brief life, lived about 41,000 years ago, was unearthed at La Ferrᴀssie, a prominent archaeological site …

3,000 yr-old Greek city Tenea found by archaeologists A group of Trojan prisoners founded the town of Tenea after their devastating defeat by the Greek hero Odysseus and an enormous wooden horse in the Trojan War, according to ancient Greek texts and myths. More than 3,000 years later, near a small village in southern Greece …

Bronze Figurine with Gold Eyes Unearthed in Slovakia In the village of Jánovce, near Poprad, the Spiš Museum in Spišská Nová Ves has presented an important discovery: a Celtic bronze statue. The museum conducted archaeological research in Jánovce in the location of Pod Hradiskom (Under the Hillfort) in spring and autumn of this year, explained …

Amazing mosaic of the ancient Greek god Poseidon found in Turkey Archaeological excavations in the southern Turkish province of Adana’s Yumurtalık district have unearthed a rare mosaic depicting the ancient Greek god of the sea, Poseidon. It is believed to date back to the 3rd or 4th century B.C. The Poseidon mosaic was found in …

The ancient buried city of Akrotiri, Santorini: Greece Pompeii The ruins of a Bronze Age sophisticated settlement that thrived centuries before being eradicated by a major volcanic eruption are tucked away from the southern tip of Santorini. The remains of the Minoan town of Akrotiri are remarkably well preserved, like the Roman ruins of Pompei. …

This abandoned site was once the ‘City of 1,001 Churches’ You know that heavy feeling you get when you see an ancient site or ruin and can almost feel all the lives that have pᴀssed through it and try to imagine it in all its former glory? Well, look no further than Ani, a medieval …

Oldest fossils on Earth discovered in 3.7bn-year-old Greenland rocks According to recent research, tiny sediment ripples on an ancient seafloor, captured inside a 3.7 billion-year-old rock in Greenland, possibly the earliest fossils of living organisms ever found on Earth. The research, led by Allen Nutman, head of the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences at …

World War II–Era Code Machine Recovered from Baltic Sea From the bottom of the Baltic Sea in Europe, three-quarters of a century after it was lost at the end of the Second World War, one of the most famous puzzles on the planet has been recovered. A mechanical encryption device that once confounded the Allies …

4,500-year-old ‘Woodhenge’ discovered in Portugal The archaeological excavations that happened at Perdigões complex in the Evora District of Portugal recently showed that the archaeological excavations uncovered a “unique structure in the Prehistory of the Iberian Peninsula”. In fact, nothing similar has ever been found in Portugal before now. “As described by António Valera, who was …