A man-made submerged monolith has been discovered 131 feet (12 meters) below the waters of the Sicilian Channel between Tunisia and Sicily. It weighs approximately 30,000 pounds (15 tons), is 40 feet (12 meters) long, and it’s believed to date back at least 10,000 years. The archaeologist’s discovery offers new insight into historic Mediterranean civilizations. The ...
Scientists have been excavating the ruins of Tikal, an ancient Maya city in modern-day Guatemala, since the 1950s — and thanks to those many decades spent documenting details of every structure and cataloging each excavated item, Tikal has become one of the best understood and most thoroughly studied archaeological sites in the world. But a ...
A new study led by Arizona State University paleoanthropologist Curtis Marean and ASU doctoral graduate Emily Hallett details more than 60 bone tools and one tool made from the tooth of a cetacean, which includes whales, dolphins, and porpoises. These finds, first unearthed from Contrebandiers Cave, Morocco, in 2011, are highly suggestive proxy evidence for the earliest clothing in ...
The recent unearthing of a 1,500-year-old burial site in China exposed the skeletons of a couple locked in an embrace. Adages like ‘till death do us apart’ are part of our emotions and we make this promise to our loved ones. But there have been certain couples who did not let even death keep them ...
Pioneering technology has helped experts find a lost camp built and used by thousands of Roman soldiers sent to conquer Northwest Iberia. The discovery is the largest and oldest Roman military fortified enclosure excavated so far in Galicia and northern Portugal. The foundations of the enclosure wall date from around the second century B.C. Experts ...
In Sweden, a hobby cartographer accidentally came across a Bronze Age discovery that is being described as a 2,500-year-old treasure trove. The startling discovery has made headlines and archaeologists are curious, naturally. The treasure comprises 50 pieces of jewelry and other relics in the set, say the authorities. It is a significant discovery that throws ...
In ancient Egypt, people were particular about preserving the remains of their dead and the tradition of mummification has aroused the curiosity of historians for centuries. Several types of mummies have been discovered over the years, but never a pregnant mummy. The Egyptians mummified their emperors and their family members, while mummies of people belonging ...
It is quite well known that the ancient Romans were used to living lavish lifestyles. They were great connoisseurs of art too. However, their love of animals as pets is lesser known. If historical artifacts found in the famous city of Pompeii are anything to go by, citizens of the Roman Empire were canine lovers ...
The discovery of a rare bone artifact near the Lower Murray River casts more light on the rich archaeological record of Ngarrindjeri country in southern Australia. Details of the Murrawong bone point, dated between c. 5,300 and 3,800 years old, have been described by Flinders University, Griffith University, and other experts in a new paper ...
The efforts to trace the root of humans have yielded fascinating results over the decades. One such instance is the “Canadian Ice Man” whose remains were found in a melting glacier in British Columbia, Canada. The discovery of remains of fossilized ancestors of present-day humans throws up intriguing details and challenges to existing theories. The ...
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