Ancient Canadian Village Predates Egyptian Pyramids by 8,000 Years Archaeologists on British Columbia’s Triquet Island have excavated an ancient settlement dating back some 14,000 years, to the last ice age. Archaeologists working with the support of the Hakai Institute began…
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Lost City of Alexander the Great Discovered in Iraq Using Old Spy Footage The ‘lost city’ of Alexander the Great was a mystical place where people drank wine and naked philosophers exchanged wisdom, ancient accounts claim. Now, nearly 2,000 years…
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4,300-Year-Old Figurines Unearthed in Central Anatolia Hurriyet Daily News reports that a team of researchers led by Fikri Kulakoğlu of Ankara University uncovered more than a dozen 4,300-year-old figurines thought to depict gods and goddesses at the Kültepe mound in central…
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100-Million-Year-Old Giant Sperm Discovered in Amber from Myanmar The world’s oldest animal sperm was found in a tiny crustacean trapped in Amber about 100 million years ago in Myanmar by the international partnership of researchers from London’s Queen Mary University…
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Rare 17th-Century English Book Found in Spanish College Library BBC News reports that John Stone of the University of Barcelona has found a 1634 printing of The Two Noble Kinsmen, a play written by William Shakespeare with John Fletcher, a house playwright…
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The 5,000-Year-Old Pyramid City of Caral: The First City in the Americas Seventy thousand years ago, people lived all over South America. Six thousand years ago, people began to construct cities around pyramids, in places like Mesopotamia and China. The…
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Possible Roman Salt-Making Site Discovered in England’s East Midlands Spalding Today reports that excavations ahead of road construction in England’s East Midlands have uncovered Roman pottery, charcoal, two ditches, and holding tanks that the Romans may have used to make…
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1,200-Year-Old Pagan Temple to Thor and Odin Unearthed in Norway The remains of the 1,200-year-old pagan temple were dug up in Norway and provide a rare insight into the Viking religion. Archaeologists have dated the remains of the large wooden…
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The Qasr Al-Farid: Exploring the Lonely Castle of the Nabataeans in Madain Saleh Among the Dozens of ruins located in the archaeological playground of Mada’in Saleh, one stands alone. Carved into a massive boulder, Qasr al-Farid, or “The Lonely Castle,”…
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Unveiling Heracleion: Divers Discover Ancient Temple in Egypt’s Sunken City The remnants of the ancient submarine temple were found in the ancient sunken town of Heracleion, off the north coast of Egypt, identified as the Atlantic of Egypt. About 1,200…
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