2,500-Year-Old Chariot Found – Complete with Rider And Horses
2,500-Year-Old Chariot Found – Complete with Rider And Horses For the second time in two years, an Iron Age chariot has been found buried in a Yorkshire community. The discovery was made in the town of Pocklington, England, at a construction site where more than 200 homes are being built. As of early October 2018, … Continue reading 2,500-Year-Old Chariot Found – Complete with Rider And Horses
Scientists Discover Beheaded Man’s Brain Self-Preserved For 2,600 Years
Scientists Discover Beheaded Man’s Brain Self-Preserved For 2,600 Years One of the oldest human brains ever to be discovered was probably preserved for more than 2,000 years thanks to mud, archaeologists claim. The intact Iron Age organ was discovered inside a decapitated skull in York seven years ago and since then experts have conducted tests … Continue reading Scientists Discover Beheaded Man’s Brain Self-Preserved For 2,600 Years
Buried in Sand for a Millennium: Africa’s Roman Ghost City
Buried in Sand for a Millennium: Africa’s Roman Ghost City Got Your archeologist’s cap on? Today we invite you to touch down in Algeria and explore Timgad, a lost Roman city on the edge of the Sahara desert that remained hidden beneath the sand for nearly a thousand years. Positively obscure compared to the international … Continue reading Buried in Sand for a Millennium: Africa’s Roman Ghost City
Egypt Unearths Tomb of Royal Priest From 4,400 Years Ago
Egypt Unearths Tomb of Royal Priest From 4,400 Years Ago Egypt unveiled a well-preserved 4,400-year-old tomb decorated with hieroglyphs and statues south of Cairo on Saturday, and officials expect more discoveries when archaeologists excavate the site further in the coming months. The tomb was found in a buried ridge at the ancient necropolis of Saqqara. … Continue reading Egypt Unearths Tomb of Royal Priest From 4,400 Years Ago
Giant 1,100-pound bone belonging to sauropod found in France
Giant 1,100-pound bone belonging to sauropod found in France The femur of a giant dinosaur was found this week by French paleontologists at an excavation site in southwest France where, since 2010, remains of some of the largest animals ever to live on land have been excavated. The thigh bone of a giant dinosaur was … Continue reading Giant 1,100-pound bone belonging to sauropod found in France
Japanese scientists ‘reawaken’ cells of 28,000 Old woolly mammoth
Japanese scientists ‘reawaken’ cells of 28,000 Old woolly mammoth Her name is Yuka: an ancient woolly mammoth that last lived some 28,000 years ago, before becoming mummified in the frozen permafrost wastelands of northern Siberia. But now that icy tomb is no longer the end of Yuka’s story. The mammoth’s well-preserved remains were discovered in … Continue reading Japanese scientists ‘reawaken’ cells of 28,000 Old woolly mammoth
Traces of Possible Zapotec Temple Detected in Southern Mexico
Traces of Possible Zapotec Temple Detected in Southern Mexico A hidden “entrance to the underworld” built by the ancient Zapotec culture has been discovered beneath a Catholic church in southern Mexico, according to a team of researchers using cutting-edge ground-scanning technology. The complex system of underground chambers and tunnels was built more than a millennium … Continue reading Traces of Possible Zapotec Temple Detected in Southern Mexico
Paint like an Egyptian: X-rays reveal creative process behind ancient tomb art
Paint like an Egyptian: X-rays reveal creative process behind ancient tomb art Every painter has a process, but the painstaking revisions and countless tiny edits are invisible to those who only see the final product. In a study published today in PLOS ONE, researchers used x-rays to reveal how 3000-year-old paintings inside Egypt’s Theban Necropolis … Continue reading Paint like an Egyptian: X-rays reveal creative process behind ancient tomb art
Dublin hotel dig unearths 1,000-year-old burial site
Dublin hotel dig unearths 1,000-year-old burial site About 100 skeletal remains from the Middle Ages have been unearthed during excavations for a Northern Ireland firm’s new hotel in Dublin. Burial sites dating back more than 1,000 years were found at Capel Street where an abbey, St Mary’s, once stood. At least two of the remains … Continue reading Dublin hotel dig unearths 1,000-year-old burial site
Archaeologists Find Massive 3,000-Year-Old Statue in Cairo Slum
Archaeologists Find Massive 3,000-Year-Old Statue in Cairo Slum Archaeologists have found a 26-foot statue submerged in ground water in a Cairo slum that the Antiquities Ministry has hailed as one of the most important discoveries ever. Experts say it probably depicts the revered Pharaoh Ramses II, who ruled Egypt more than 3,000 years ago. The … Continue reading Archaeologists Find Massive 3,000-Year-Old Statue in Cairo Slum