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Archaeologists Locate Earliest Known North American Settlement

March 18, 2023

Archaeologists Locate Earliest Known North American Settlement The earliest known North American settlement has been located. Paisley Five Mile Point Caves in southern Oregon near the Fremont-Winema National Forest has officially been added to the list of the most important…

10-Foot-Tall Stone Jars ‘Made by Giants’ Stored Human Bodies in Ancient Laos

March 17, 2023

10-Foot-Tall Stone Jars ‘Made by Giants’ Stored Human Bodies in Ancient Laos More than 100 giant stone jars, thought to have been used in burial rituals thousands of years ago, have been rediscovered at ancient sites in forests, on hillsides…

Mystery Of The 1,700-Year-Old ‘Salt’ Mummy With Long White Hair

March 17, 2023

Mystery Of The 1,700-Year-Old ‘Salt’ Mummy With Long White Hair It is believed the Saltmen were working in a mine over 1700 years ago when it collapsed on them. In 1993, miners at the Chehrabad Salt Mine in the Zanjan…

Jaws of Death: Paleontologist Renames GIANT, Prehistoric Marine Lizard

March 17, 2023

Jaws of Death: Paleontologist Renames GIANT, Prehistoric Marine Lizard Some 92 to 66 million years ago, as the age of dinosaurs waned, giant marine lizards called mosasaurs roamed an ocean that covered North America from Utah to Missouri and Texas…

Ancient Egyptians Were Embalming Mummies 1,500 Years Earlier Than First Thought

March 17, 2023

Ancient Egyptians Were Embalming Mummies 1,500 Years Earlier Than First Thought Tests on a prehistoric mummy reveal that ancient Egyptian embalming methods were in use 1,500 years earlier than previously thought. The analysis was carried out on the ‘Turin Mummy’,…

A Giant Skull From Indonesia Made up of Lots of Animal Skulls

March 17, 2023

A Giant Skull From Indonesia Made up of Lots of Animal Skulls The discovery of a giant skull made up of many animal skulls in Indonesia has caused quite a stir in the scientific community. This unusual artifact was recently…

Archaeologist Discovered Viking Ship Found Under the Ground in Norway

March 15, 2023

Archaeologist Discovered Viking Ship Found Under the Ground in Norway Archaeologists in Norway using ground-penetrating radar have detected one of the largest Viking ship graves ever found. Archaeologists have found the outlines of a Viking ship buried not far from…

Archaeologist Discovered Grauballe man, a preserved bog body from the 3rd century B.C

Archaeologists Discovered Grauballe Man, A Preserved Bog Body From The 3rd Century B.C

March 15, 2023

Archaeologist Discovered Grauballe man, a preserved bog body from the 3rd century B.C Two years after the discovery of the Tollund man, another bog body was found on the 26 of April 1952, by local peat cutters in the nearby…

Stone Age Child May Have Been Buried With A Wolf

March 14, 2023

Stone Age Child may have been buried with a wolf Considering Finland’s highly acidic soil, archaeologists were surprised to find animal fur and feathers buried alongside a child from the Stone Age. A Stone Age burial in Finland holds the…

New DNA Testing on 2,000-Year-Old Elongated Paracas Skulls Changes Known History

March 14, 2023

New DNA Testing on 2,000-Year-Old Elongated Paracas Skulls Changes Known History The elongated skulls of Paracas in Peru caused a stir in 2014 when a geneticist that carried out preliminary DNA testing reported that they have mitochondrial DNA “with mutations unknown in…