3,700-Year-Old Burial Site Suggests Female Rule in Bronze Age Spain Archaeologists in Spain have determined that the 3,700-year-old remains of a woman found beneath a Bronze Age-era ruin may well be the first case of an ancient female ruling elite…
Eastern European Newcomers Settled in Ancient Serbia 5,000 Years Ago Bones of tall men covered with a red dye, discovered by researchers including Polish archaeologists in two burial mounds in Vojvodina (northern Serbia) probably belonged to people who had come…
Ancient Skeletons Unveil History of Worm Parasites in Britain Britons have suffered from worms since the Bronze Age, new research shows, with parasite infections peaking during the Roman and Late Medieval periods. Things began to get better during the Industrial…
Ruins of Ancient Temple for Zeus Unearthed in Egypt’s Sinai Egyptian archaeologists unearthed the ruins of a temple for the ancient Greek god Zeus in the Sinai Peninsula, antiquities authorities said Monday. The Tourism and Antiquities Ministry said in a…
3,000-Year-Old Wooden Toe: Early Artistry in Prosthetics Revealed Almost two decades ago, archaeologists working in a burial chamber in the Sheikh ´Abd el-Qurna necropolis west of Luxor, Egypt, found something unexpected: An exquisitely crafted prosthetic big toe fitted to the…
Rare 1000-Year-Old Maya Canoe Found in Yucatan Cenote Archaeologists have discovered a wooden Maya canoe in southern Mexico, believed to be over 1,000 years old. Measuring over 5ft (1.6m), it was found almost completely intact, submerged in a freshwater pool…
Researchers Discover Huge “Dinosaur Dance Floor” in China In China, researchers have found many dinosaur footprints in an area of 1,600 square meters described in the literature as a “dinosaur dance floor.” So far, 8 kinds of dinosaur footprints have…
Secrets Unearthed: The Underground City of Giant Skeletons Discovered in the Grand Canyon In the early 20th century, chance led us to the gate of the underground town of the most prominent giants of that period. This was an unprecedented…
DNA Analysis Reunites Viking Relatives in Denmark After 1,000 Years The 150 bones have been lent to the Danish Museum by the Oxfordshire Museum in Britain for three years. Separated for 1,000 years, two Viking warriors from the same family…
Mummified 30,000-Year-Old Baby Mammoth Discovered in Canadian Gold Fields A gold miner found a mummified baby woolly mammoth in the Trʼondëk Hwëchʼin Traditional Territory in Yukon, Canada. According to a press release from the local government, the female baby mammoth has been named…
