1,300-Year-Old Wooden Ski Pair Discovered in Norwegian Ice The long-lost ski of a pair used more than 1,300 years ago has been discovered on a Norwegian mountaintop. The first ski was uncovered in 2014 and seven years later, the Digervarden…
17th-Century Skeleton of Scandinavian Girl Found with Bird Skull in Mouth: A Mysterious Burial in Poland When long-dead human remains are found buried in unusual circumstances, anthropologists are usually able to piece together why. But the bones of a child…
Exploring Possible Neandertal Hunting Tactics: The Chough Bird Strategy Juan Negro crouched in the shadows just outside a cave, wearing his headlamp. For a brief moment, he wasn’t an ornithologist at the Spanish National Research Council’s Doñana Biological Station in…
Archaeologists Stunned by Discovery of 5,000-Year-Old ‘Scottish Pompeii’ Settlement Duncansby Head lighthouse marks the most northeasterly point of the British mainland. It’s almost 880 miles from Land’s End in the southwest of England. Just beyond here are the Orkney islands, over 70 of them,…
New Archaeological Findings Unveil Hidden Atrocities of Nazi SS Camp on Alderney, the Only German Concentration Camp on British Soil One of the British Channel Islands has a German concentration camp which has been a location for terrible atrocities, which…
2,000-Year-Old ‘Mini Pompeii’ Discovered in France: Uncovering Ancient Roman Secrets This find took place in the district of Sainte-Colombe, southern Lyon, and was dubbed a Mini Pompei by its similarity to the Roman town buried in Naples after the Vesuvius…
Discover Thamugadi: Africa’s Roman Ghost City Buried for a Millennium While the whole city often does not vanish, the Roman colony of Thamugadi was established in the North African province of Mumidia by Emperor Traian about 100 A.D., the city,…
Israeli Archaeologists Discover Hidden Geometric Pattern at Göbekli Tepe, World’s Oldest Temple Archeologists believe the neolithic hunter-gatherers who built huge monoliths in central Turkey 11,500 years ago had knowledge of geometry and a much more complex society than previously thought, archaeologists…
Archaeologists Crack Open a 2,000-Year-Old Coffin in Italy’s ‘Tomb of Cerberus’ Archaeologists opened a coffin in an ancient tomb in Italy—dubbed the “Tomb of Cerberus” for its murals depicting the mythical three-headed dog—and found a shrouded skeleton surrounded by goods. They…
1,600-Year-Old Roman Merchant Ship Cargo Discovered off Caesarea Coast In recent times, divers have discovered some rarity of archaeological artifacts on the bottom of the sea off the coast of Israel in Caesarea. The objects that seem to have been…
