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 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…
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 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 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 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 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 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…
500 Years Old “Zoombie Viruses” That Killed ‘Giant’ Woolly Mammoths 500 years ago the last Woolly Mammoths roamed the Earth. He and the rest of his brethren died off after the end of the last Ice age. Researchers have found…
The Papuan tribe cares for a 250-year-old mummy to preserve ancient rite It’s all about paying respect and preserving a tradition. How would you like to spend the night with the mummified remains of a long-dead relative? What sounds like…
