Teenage Girl Discovers “Bizarre Humanoid Skull” Like No Other in Abandoned Mine Shaft in Mexico It was back in the 1930s when an American teenager discovered an abandoned mine tunnel in Mexico’s Copper Canyon region. Inside it, she found a…
This Medieval Mother Had a Gruesome ‘Coffin Birth’ After Medieval Brain Surgery Italian archaeologists have uncovered a medieval grave containing the remains of a woman buried near Bologna, Italy, with a 38-week-old fetus lying between her legs, reports said Monday.…
DNA has proven that Turkey was the country of origin for the earliest farmers in Europe It was an innovation that changed the course of human history forever, leading to the rise of the first civilizations and transforming the way…
Carbon dating indicates that India’s oldest known burial site is 4,000 years old One day in 2005, Shriram Sharma, a farmer from Sanauli village Uttar Pradesh’s Baghpat district, was carrying about his day, and ploughing his field. Little did he know that…
195,000 Years Oldest Fossils Found Outside of Africa New fossil finds over the past few years have been forcing anthropologists to reexamine our evolutionary path to becoming human. Now the earliest modern human fossil ever found outside the continent of Africa is…
Researchers discover the “decapitated” skeleton of an extinct “creature” more than 200 years ago During a routine survey of the coastline of Komandorsky Nature Reserve in Russia, researchers came across a rather bizarre discovery. While performing excavations at the Kamchatka peninsula,…
Greece Underwater Archaeologist Discovers 5,000-Year-Old Town Archaeologists surveying the world’s oldest submerged town have found ceramics dating back to the Final Neolithic. Their discovery suggests that Pavlopetri, off the southern Laconia coast of Greece, was occupied some 5,000 years ago —…
Remains of 90 million-year-old rainforest discovered under Antarctic ice When dinosaurs roamed the Earth 90 million years ago, the planet was much warmer, including Antarctica at the South Pole. But in a surprising twist, researchers have discovered evidence that Antarctica…
In Mexico’s Caribbean, archaeologists find a more than 200-year-old shipwreck QUINTANA ROO, MEXICO— BBC reports that an eight-foot cannon, anchor, and pig-iron ingots thought to have been used as a ship’s ballast were spotted by a fisherman in the Caribbean Sea…
Unusual Gallo-Roman horse and human skeletons were discovered in France’s Evreux (Eure) A team from the Institut National d’archéologie preventive (Inrap) has discovered a mortuary practice hitherto unknown in Roman Gaul. The archaeologists are working in an area of 200m2…
