Archaeologists Unearthed a 15,800 Year Old Stone Tool In Oregon Recently, an artifact that was unearthed in Oregon and was identified as an “ ancient Swiss army knife,” may have been the oldest artifact so far found in western North America. The simple stone tool, hewn from a piece of bright orange agate, was unearthed …

Did the Celts build “America’s Stonehenge” 4,000 years ago? Studying the origins of the aptly named Mystery Hill megaliths, also known as America’s Stonehenge, whets one’s curiosity but does not satisfy—unless one is satisfied by the excitement of confounding mystery alone. The site, in North Salem, N.H., includes stone monoliths and chambers spread across 30 acres.  The stones …

A 300 Million-Year-Old Shark Skull Was Discovered Inside Kentucky Cave A fossilized shark head dating back some 300 million years ago has been discovered in the walls of a Kentucky cave. Experts believe it belonged a Saivodus striatus, which lived between 340 and 330 million years ago during the Late Mississippian geological period. The well-preserved …

An American King Tut’s Tomb of the Arkansas Valley During the height of its looting in the winter of 1935, the Spiro site—located in northeastern Oklahoma just 10 miles west of Fort Smith—was catapulted to fame by a headline published in the Kansas City Star (December 15, 1935) proclaiming it “A ‘King Tut’ Tomb in …

Grave robbers almost destroyed one of the most important archaeological sites in Oklahoma A miner’s pickaxe punched a hole through a wall of hard-packed soil 18 inches thick by drilling into a mound of earth on the banks of the Arkansas River in far eastern Oklahoma. The air hissed as it rushed to fill a hollow …

Oldest North American Rock Art May Be 14,800 Years Old A rock engraved with ancient marks discovered on a dried-up lakebed in Nevada carries dated as of the oldest known petroglyphs in North America, at least 10,000 years old. The petroglyphs found on limestone boulders near Pyramid Lake in northern Nevada’s high desert are similar …

The Nine Mile Canyon in the Utah desert is the world’s longest & oldest ‘art gallery’ Situated in the desert of eastern Utah, The Nine Mile Canyon is the world’s longest art gallery. This canyon is home to tens of thousands of petroglyphs and pictographs over a 40-mile stretch. The canyon’s art was created by …

Man who died of constipation 1,000 years ago ate grᴀsshoppers for months One of the worst instances of constipation in the annals of medicine was a native American living in the Lower Pecos Canyonlands of Texas between 1,000 and 1,400 years ago. The man’s intestine swelled to six times its usual size due to an …

Mysterious message in a bottle found 126 years later hidden inside the wall of Boston building A bottle containing a mysterious 126-year-old note was recently found hidden away inside the wall of a building in Boston. A person living in the Back Bay near Commonwealth Avenue found the bottle tucked into a space between their …