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…
Some of the earliest humans in Britain can be identified by 600,000-year-old findings An overlooked archaeological site outside of Canterbury turned out to contain some of the oldest human-made tools in Britain. Many of the artifacts were found in the…
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…
Luxor, Egypt’s Two Ancient Egyptian Kingdom Tombs Are Now Open Two tombs of unidentified officials dated to Egypt’s New Kingdom era have been opened at Luxor’s Draa Abul-Naglaa necropolis years after they were initially discovered by German archaeologist Frederica Kampp…
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,…
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…
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…
‘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,…
