Rare Roman Statues Discovered at Norman Church Ruins During HS2 Excavation in England Archaeologists in central England working on the HS2 project have uncovered a set of incredibly rare Roman statues whilst excavating a Norman Church in Stoke Mandeville. In the final…
Scientific Evidence Shows Humans Didn’t Evolve from a Single Pair 200,000 Years Ago Those headlines give the impression that science has produced evidence to support the story of Adam and Eve. But the study they rest on does not demonstrate anything…
Archaeologists Stunned by Discovery of 5,000-Year-Old ‘Scottish Pompeii’ Settlement Duncansby Head lighthouse marks the most northeasterly point of the British mainland. It’s almost 880 miles from Land’s End in the southwest of England. Just beyond here are the Orkney islands, over 70 of them,…
Denver Museum to Return Looted Khmer Relics to Cambodia Amid U.S. Seizure Efforts Decades after they were hacked from temples and other historical sites, four ancient statues from the Denver Museum of Art are finally heading home. The museum has agreed to…
Discovery of the Largest Qin Dynasty Tomb: Over 180 Bodies and 3,500 Artifacts Found Mentions the ancient tombs of China. The first thing many people think of is the mausoleum of Qin Shihuang, but the tomb of Qin Shihuang has…
Ancient Walls of Benin: Longer Than the Great Wall of China and a Forgotten Marvel In Benin, the capital city of present-day Edo State stood the walls of Benin (800 – 1400AD), the longest ancient earthworks in the world and apparently the largest man-made…
4.6 Billion-Year-Old Meteorite: The Oldest Volcanic Rock Discovered A lonely meteorite that landed in the Sahara Desert in 2020 is older than Earth. The primeval space rock is about 4.6 billion years old and is the oldest known example of…
Melting Glaciers Uncover 10,000-Year-Old Artifacts Belonging to Mysterious People Climate changes are a major threat to humanity, but as it seems, there is one science that truly benefits from the terrible changes – archaeology. When it comes to melting ice…
Unveiling 390-Million-Year-Old Hyper Compound Eye: The Incredible Discovery of Trilobite Phacops Geesops A fossilized trilobite first studied by an amateur palaeontologist half a century ago has provided researchers with a whole new way of seeing the world, in a very…
Medieval Port Discovered in Vendée, France – Archaeological Findings Unveil Historical Trade Hub A medieval port has been discovered in a 2,500m2 building site and archaeological dig surrounding a chateau in Vendée, western France. Among the discoveries are a large…
