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…
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518 Million-Year-Old-Rocks Suggest Animal And Human Life May Have First Emerged In China A new study based on an analysis of 518 million-year-old rocks that contain the oldest collection of fossils that researchers have on record. The researchers believe that…
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Massive 20,000-year-old armadillo shells of the size of a CAR found in Argentina An extraordinary discovery has been made by a farmer in Argentina who was fortunate enough to stumble across the fossil remains of four enormous Glyptodon fossils in…
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A shocking world first has seen the discovery of a pregnant ancient Egyptian mummy A team of Polish scientists say they have discovered the only known example of an embalmed pregnant Egyptian mummy. The discovery was made by researchers at…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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