5,000 Years of Native American Moundbuilding
PHILADELPHIA, PA 2017—The Great Pyramids in Egypt, Stonehenge in England, and the Maya city of Teotihuacan were all built thousands of years ago. Add...
World’s Largest Underground City Discovered in Turkey
Archaeologists in Turkey have discovered what they believe is the largest underground city in the world to date. The ancient underground city which includes...
Were Modern Humans in Indonesia 73,000 Years Ago?
By Gemma Tarlach
The conventional timeline of human evolution and migration continues to crumble in the face of new research. The latest finding puts anatomically...
Ancient Maya May Have Foreseen Meteor Showers
By Kimberly M. S. Cartier
Using state-of-the-art computer models, an amateur historian and a professional astronomer have found evidence that many important societal events recorded...
Earliest known drawing found on rock in South African cave
It lacks the grace of Leonardo and has none of the warmth of Rubens, but the criss-crossed pattern on the chunk of rock is...
The Cleaners of Ancient Mesopotamia
by Noor Al-Samarrai
If you had some threads that you wanted to spiff up for a special occasion in ancient Mesopotamia, what would you do?...
NASA’s Asteroid Data Is Flawed
By Chris Mahon
NASA is pretty much the gold standard when it comes to scientific research: Between the Hubble and Chandra telescopes, the multiple Mars...
Noah’s Ark discovered? Researchers ‘99.9 per cent certain’ of astonishing Biblical find
SCIENTISTS may have discovered the remains of Noah’s Ark in what could be the biggest Biblical archaeological discovery of all time.
For millennia, scientists and...
The Mummy: what our obsession with ancient Egypt reveals
Christina Riggs
With another version of The Mummy menacing cinemas, the “curse of the pharaohs” is back. Again. Hollywood’s determination to put marauding mummies...
Unique 5,000 year old figurine with feather headdress found in old potato field in...
By Anna Liesowska
'Absolutely stunning' ancient ornaments discovered with no known comparisons, presenting a puzzle for archeologists: which culture made this?
Dr Natalia Basova holds a...