A 2,100-year-old statue of Cybele the Anatolian mother goddess unearthed in northwestern Turkey An approximate 2,100-year old Cybele’s rare marble statue, Anatolia’s mother goddess, has been discovered in excavations on the Black Sea coast of Northern Ordu province. The historic sculpture of Cybele sitting on her throne weighed a whopping 200 kilograms and was about …

Ancient goddess statue unearthed in central Turkey In central Anatolia, at the site of Kültepe, the capital of the ancient kingdom of Kanesh, several goddess statues have been found, Yeni Şafak reports. Fikri Kulakoğlu of Ankara University said that the largest of the 4,200-year-old statues unearthed this excavation season stands about 17 inches tall. “We …

Byzantine Amphora Found By Swimmer At Cretan Beach An ancient amphora, which is a vase that was historically used to store and transport things such as wine, oil and grain was discovered by a man who was swimming at Arina beach in Heraklion, Crete. Admittedly, this is more likely if your holiday is in Crete …

More than 4,500 Skeletons Discovered in Islamic Necropolos in Spain CNN reports that more than 4,500 graves have been identified at a cemetery in northeastern Spain, in an area thought to have been largely untouched by the Arab invasion of the Iberian peninsula in the early eighth century A.D.  In an 8th-century burial ground in …

Remains of Two Killed in Vesuvius Eruption Are Discovered at Pompeii Mᴀssimo Osanna, director of the Pompeii Archaeological Park, announced the discovery of the remains of two men lying close together in a villa corridor on the outskirts of the ancient city, according to a BBC News report.  This month, excavations at a suburban villa …

Archaeologists Discovered An Ancient City Buried 30 Miles Outside Rome Without Ever Digging It Up To figure out what they look like, archaeologists no longer have to excavate submerged villages. The entire ancient city of Falerii Novi, some 30 miles outside Rome, has recently been mapped by a group of Belgian and UK researchers, using …

Hoard of Jacobite Ammunition Unearthed in Scotland The Oban Times reports that metal detectorists discovered a cache of more than 200 musket balls, coins, and gold and gilt ʙuттons in southern Scotland on property near the shore of Loch nan Uamh that was owned by Alasdair MacMhaighstir Alasdair, Gaelic tutor to Charles Edward Stuart, also …

Jesus Painting Recently Discovered is a real Leonardo da Vinci drawing, Expert Says Italian scholars credit a recently found drawing of Jesus Christ to Leonardo da Vinci. Biblical figure’s red chalk drawing has been locked in a private collection for decades. Art historians may have come upon the art world’s Holy Grail after discovering a …

Petrified Horse with saddle and harness unearthed intact in a stable near Pompeii In a missed escape to safety from the Vesuvius eruption, some horses recently found in a 2,000-year-old stable seem to be frozen. Just at the top of the equestrian iceberg was a horse recently discovered stuck in the ruins of a residential …