2-Meter Tall Marble Apollo Statue Unearthed in San Casciano dei Bagni, Italy Archaeologists excavating at Bagno Grande in San Casciano dei Bagni, Italy, have all reasons to celebrate. The 2023 excavation campaign that lasted three months resulted in many new…
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Unexpected Discovery Of Two Viking Swords In Upright Position In Sweden It does not happen very often that archaeologists find Viking swords. Swords were extremely important to ancient Vikings, but these weapons were expensive to produce, and only the richest…
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1,000-Years-Ago Ancient Canoe Burial Unveils Patagonia’s Pre-Hispanic Funeral Rituals Up to 1,000 years ago, mourners buried a young woman in a ceremonial canoe to represent her final journey into the land of the dead in what is now Patagonia, a…
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3,000-year-old Ancient Villena Treasure Discover The Fascinating Revelation Of Meteorite Material Scientists have recently discovered that some of the pieces in the amazing Bronze Age collection known as the Villena Treasure, which was found in Spain more than 60 years…
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Ancient Snail From 99 Million Years Ago Discovered With Hairs Growing on Shell A snail preserved in amber with an intact fringe of tiny delicate bristles along its shell is helping biologists better understand why one of the world’s slimiest…
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Massive, 1,100-pound Dinosaur Bone Unearthed in France The femur of a giant dinosaur was found this week by French palaeontologists at an excavation site in southwest France where, since 2010, remains of some of the largest animals ever to live…
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2,200-Year-Old Fruit Baskets Found in the Underwater City of Heracleion Fruit baskets — with fruit still inside — that are more than 2,200 years old were discovered recently in the ruins of Thonis-Heracleion, the ancient lost city near Alexandria, Egypt.…
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Priceless Ancient Bronze Statues Unearthed in Etruscan Baths of San Casciano dei Bagni, Italy An “exceptional” trove of bronze statues preserved for thousands of years by mud and boiling water has been discovered in a network of baths built by…
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Roman Era Odeon Unearthed in Crete’s Ancient Town of Lissos Tucked into a mountain-ringed cove in southwest Crete are the ruins of Lissos, an ancient town whose archaeological remains are accessible only by sea or a long hike. Because of…
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3,200-Year-Old Trepanned Skull Unearthed in Eastern Turkey’s Van Province A 3,200-year-old skull was recently uncovered in Turkey’s eastern Van province. This find was made even more intriguing by the skull’s man-made triangle-shaped hole, indicating that the deceased owner had undergone…
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