Bones of Handless Man Found Near Mysterious Medieval Dolphin Burial The body of a man without hands thought to have been buried hundreds of years ago has been found by archaeologists on a rocky islet off the coast of Guernsey,…
Mass Grave Of The Viking Army Contained Slaughtered Children To Help Dead Reach Afterlife, Experts Believe A mass grave of Viking warriors found in Derbyshire was accompanied by slaughtered children in a burial ritual enacted to help the dead reach…
A 1.8-million-year-old skull provides insight into our evolutionary history. The discovery of a 1.8-million-year-old skull of a human ancestor buried under a medieval Georgian village provides a vivid picture of early evolution and indicates our family tree may have fewer…
800 years ago, A Brutal Boomerang Blow Killed This Man Since analyzing the markings of an 800-year-old fossil, Australian anthropologists have found evidence that its owner has been killed in a vicious boomerang attack. Boomerangs are popular hunting weapons used…
Ancient Siberian grave holds ‘warrior woman’ and huge weapons stash Archaeologists in Siberia have unearthed a 2,500-year-old grave holding the remains of four people from the ancient Tagar culture — including two warriors, a male and female — and a…
Mysterious 4,000-year-old Grave Reveals A Man And Woman Buried Face To Face In a cemetery dating back about 4000 years, in Kazakhstan, the bodies of a young man and woman were discovered buried face to face, probably in their twenties.…
5,000-year-old Bryde’s whale skeleton discovered in Thailand An unusual, partly fossilized skeleton belonging to a Bryde whale, estimated to be about 5,000 years old, has been discovered by researchers in Thailand at an inland site west of Bangkok. At the beginning…
‘Sleeping Beauty’ Mummy Discovered 2,000 Years After Death Wearing Skirt And Clutching Make-Up Box Archeologists hail the extraordinary find of a suspected ‘Hun woman’ with a jet gemstone buckle on her beaded belt. After a fall in the water level,…
Archaeologists Unearth the ‘Golden Man’ of the Saka Burial Mound in Kazakhstan Last week, Ancient Origins reported on the fascinating discovery of a golden treasure left by the ancient Saka people in a burial mound in Kazakhstan. It was called…
New Evidence Of Ancient Child Sacrifice Found From Bronze Age Mesopotamia About 5,000 years ago, the Mesopotamians buried two 12-year-olds — a boy and a girl — and surrounded their slender bodies with hundreds of bronze spearheads and what appears…
