Ancient Structures in The Arabian Desert Reveal Fragments of Mysterious Rituals We might be getting closer to understanding why hundreds of large stone structures were built across the deserts of northwest Saudi Arabia thousands of years ago. According to an…
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This 1,000-Year-Old Stone Tablet May’ve Been a Maya Sports ‘Scoreboard’ An ancient stone “scoreboard” likely used in a soccer-like ball game was discovered at an archeological site in Mexico earlier this week, archaeologists said. Found at the Maya Chichen Itza…
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3000-year-old trousers discovered in Chinese grave oldest ever found That’s right–1000 years before Christ’s birth these were worn. Archeologists say the two men whose remains have recently been excavated from tombs in western China put their pants on one leg…
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King Tutankhamun’s 3300-Year-Old Gold Coffin to Be Restored After Nearly a Decade From the time that King Tutankhamun’s body was placed, the outermost sarcophagus had never left the 3300-year-old tomb. Even in 1922, following the discovery of the tomb by…
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Archaeologists Uncover 3,000-Year-Old Gold Mask In China Belonging To A Mysterious Ancient Society A 3,000-year-old ceremonial gold mask has become an unexpected social media sensation in China after its recent discovery in Sichuan province. The artefact was one of 500…
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Ancient Hair Reveals Traces of Hallucinogenic Drugs Taken 3,600 Years Ago Long before the counter-culture revolution of the 1960s, Bronze Age Europeans were tuning in and dropping out on hallucinogenic drugs. While archaeologists have long had their suspicions, a new…
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Archaeologists Find Hidden Ruins of ‘Complete’ Roman-Era City in Egypt Egyptian archaeologists said Tuesday they had discovered a 1,800-year-old “complete residential city from the Roman Era” in the heart of the southern city of Luxor. The city, dating to the second and third…
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Scientists Discover 168 Mysterious Nazca Geoglyphs in The Desert Sands of Peru The Nazca desert in Peru is like an art gallery for the gods above. Yet even with decades of surveillance from the skies, we’ve barely explored a small…
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Sword Mistaken For Replica Is Actually An Ancient 3,000-Year-Old Weapon In the 1930s, a tarnished bronze sword was pulled from the banks of the Danube River that runs through Budapest. It was styled like a Hungarian weapon from the Bronze…
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Remains of man who was ‘vaporized’ by Mount Vesuvius 2,000 years ago discovered The skeletal remains of a man whose flesh disintegrated in the heat from Mount Vesuvius almost 2,000 years ago have offered a new glimpse into one of history’s most…
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