Luxor, Egypt’s Two Ancient Egyptian Kingdom Tombs Are Now Open Two tombs of unidentified officials dated to Egypt’s New Kingdom era have been opened at Luxor’s Draa Abul-Naglaa necropolis years after they were initially discovered by German archaeologist Frederica Kampp…
Researchers discover the “decapitated” skeleton of an extinct “creature” more than 200 years ago During a routine survey of the coastline of Komandorsky Nature Reserve in Russia, researchers came across a rather bizarre discovery. While performing excavations at the Kamchatka peninsula,…
Mysterious 4,000-year-old Grave Reveals A Man And Woman Buried Face To Face In a cemetery dating back about 4000 years, in Kazakhstan, the bodies of a young man and woman were discovered buried face to face, probably in their twenties.…
5,000-year-old Bryde’s whale skeleton discovered in Thailand An unusual, partly fossilized skeleton belonging to a Bryde whale, estimated to be about 5,000 years old, has been discovered by researchers in Thailand at an inland site west of Bangkok. At the beginning…
Greece Underwater Archaeologist Discovers 5,000-Year-Old Town Archaeologists surveying the world’s oldest submerged town have found ceramics dating back to the Final Neolithic. Their discovery suggests that Pavlopetri, off the southern Laconia coast of Greece, was occupied some 5,000 years ago —…
Remains of 90 million-year-old rainforest discovered under Antarctic ice When dinosaurs roamed the Earth 90 million years ago, the planet was much warmer, including Antarctica at the South Pole. But in a surprising twist, researchers have discovered evidence that Antarctica…
‘Sleeping Beauty’ Mummy Discovered 2,000 Years After Death Wearing Skirt And Clutching Make-Up Box Archeologists hail the extraordinary find of a suspected ‘Hun woman’ with a jet gemstone buckle on her beaded belt. After a fall in the water level,…
9,000-year-old Site near Jerusalem is the “Big Bang” of Prehistory Settlement A huge 9,000-year-old Neolithic settlement — the largest ever discovered in Israel, say archaeologists — is currently being excavated outside Jerusalem, researchers said in mid-2019. This site, located near…
Archaeologists Unearth the ‘Golden Man’ of the Saka Burial Mound in Kazakhstan Last week, Ancient Origins reported on the fascinating discovery of a golden treasure left by the ancient Saka people in a burial mound in Kazakhstan. It was called…
In Mexico’s Caribbean, archaeologists find a more than 200-year-old shipwreck QUINTANA ROO, MEXICO— BBC reports that an eight-foot cannon, anchor, and pig-iron ingots thought to have been used as a ship’s ballast were spotted by a fisherman in the Caribbean Sea…
