Exploring the Mysteries of Sigiriya: Sri Lanka’s Hidden Ancient City Sigiriya (The Lion Mountain) is often considered to be the eighth wonder of the world and an ancient stone fortress used by a king of Sri Lanka as a site…
An Ancient Fast Food Restaurant in Pompeii That Served Honey-Roasted Rodents Is Now Open to the Public Archaeologists studying the Roman city of Pompeii recently discovered a thermopolium—a kind of ancient fast food restaurant—and it is now open to the…
Lost Viking Chest Reveals Remarkable Tools from the Viking Age – Uncovering a 1000-Year-Old Craftsmanship It must have been a terrible day for the Viking craftsman. He lost all his equipment while traveling across a lake in present-day Sweden. In…
The Mystery Of The Modern “London Hammer” Found Encased In Ancient Rock While walking along Red Creek, London, Texas, in June 1936, Emma Zadie Hahn and her husband Max Edmond Hahn made an unusual discovery: a piece of wood poking…
The Ancient Mystery of the Dolmens of the North Caucasus Scattered around in some previously inaccessible parts of Russia are some mysterious stone structures built by an ancient megalithic civilization that have endured centuries of both veneration and plunder. If…
World’s Oldest Bottle Olive Oil is 2000-years-old Scientists Confirm New research has confirmed that a 2,000-year-old bottle found in the ancient Roman town of Herculaneum, near modern-day Naples, is olive oil and has shed light on the molecular transformation of the oil over…
2,000 Years of Genetic History in Scandinavia: Unraveling the Viking Age to Modern Times A new study published in the journal Cell on January 5 captures a genetic history across Scandinavia over 2,000 years, from the Iron Age to the…
Possible Funerary Structures Uncovered at Peru’s Huaca Bandera Culture Ministry’s researchers digging at Huaca Bandera —located in the district of Pacora in Lambayeque region— have found architectural structures of the Mochica elite, as well as human remains linked to important…
Intriguing 3,400-Year-Old Multipurpose Pyramid Found In Kazakhstan Earlier this year, scientists reported the discovery of a sophisticated 4,000-year-old steppe pyramid in Kazakhstan. Archaeologists have now found yet another pyramid located on a hill next to the Taldy-Nura River, 13 km east of…
1700-Year-Old Iron Trident Unearthed in the Ancient City of Assos, Turkey The ancient Greek city of Assos on the Aegean coast of modern Turkey is an interesting place where many archaeological have been made. In Assos, we find a magnificent…
