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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,”…
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…
World’s Longest Fossilized Human Trackway Discovered at White Sands Footprints are a common theme at White Sands. Every day, people from all over the world visit and leave traces of their comings and goings. The white dunes of the Tularosa…
Potential Royal Statue Fragment Unearthed in England The Guardian reports that a team of researchers led by archaeologist Julian Richards unearthed a carved stone head at the site of Shaftesbury Abbey, which was founded as a religious house for women…
4,000-Year-Old Lost Capital of the Fabled Kingdom Found in Syria One of the most ancient cities known to exist on earth is Urkesh. Its exact location was a mystery until the 1990s when, after ten years of painstaking excavations, archaeologists…
