Jackpot: 900-Year-Old Gold Coins, Dating Back to The Crusades, Found in Israel Archaeologists in Israel have uncovered a trove of rare gold coins and a 900-year-old gold earring at the site of a Crusader massacre. Officials announced the discovery earlier this week, explaining that the artefacts were found at the ancient city of Caesarea on … Continue reading Jackpot: 900-Year-Old Gold Coins, Dating Back to The Crusades, Found in Israel →

Scientists discover remains of Hobbit humans that stood only 3ft high and lived 700,000 years ago in Indonesia SCIENTISTS have discovered the fossils of a “hobbit” that lived 700,000 years ago on an Indonesian island. The homo floresienis were ancient humans that lived between 100,000 and 50,000 years ago. Adults stood just three-and-a-half feet tall and … Continue reading Scientists discover remains of Hobbit humans that stood only 3ft high and lived 700,000 years ago in Indonesia →

Luxurious 1,200-year-old mansion found in southern Israel Between two mosques in Rahat, archaeologists uncover an opulent home with a finished basement that likely belonged to a wealthy landowner in the early Islamic Period Luxury can be found in unexpected places. Archaeologists announced Tuesday the discovery of a 1,200-year-old estate in Israel’s southern Negev desert, boasting … Continue reading Luxurious 1,200-year-old mansion found in southern Israel →

Ancient DNA adds to evidence of Native Americans’ east Asian ancestry An ancient woman’s skull from south-west China suggests she was related to a population that migrated from east Asia to North America 14,000 years ago, DNA has shown. Researchers have sequenced the genomes of ancient human fossils from the Late Pleistocene in southern China for … Continue reading Ancient DNA adds to evidence of Native Americans’ east Asian ancestry →

Have Scholars Finally Deciphered a Mysterious Ancient Script? A mysterious writing system that is nearly as old as cuneiform but used a different set of symbols and that has remained undeciphered for centuries may have finally been deciphered. Based on ancient silver vessels, the researchers propose a new method for decoding the Linear Elamite script, … Continue reading Have Scholars Finally Deciphered a Mysterious Ancient Script? →

Archaeologists uncover the ancient city and hundreds of artefacts close to Baghdad An archaeological dig in Al-Suwaira, some 60km south of Baghdad, has revealed an ancient Parthian (247BC to 224AD) city and unearthed more than 200 artefacts. According to a statement from Iraq’s State Board of Antiquities and Heritage (SBAH) the recently completed 150-day mission … Continue reading Archaeologists uncover the ancient city and hundreds of artefacts close to Baghdad →

Archaeologists Unearth Tomb Of Genghis Khan Construction workers employed in road building near the Onon River in the Khentii province of Mongolia, have discovered a mass ԍʀᴀvᴇ containing the remains of many ᴅozᴇɴs of human coʀᴘsᴇs lying upon a large rudimentary stone structure. Forensic experts and archaeologists were called to the site, which was revealed to … Continue reading Archaeologists Unearth Tomb Of Genghis Khan →

Reconstruction Offers a Glimpse of the Face of “Penang Woman” GEORGE TOWN: Five years after researchers from Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) found a prehistoric human skeleton, dubbed the “Penang Woman”, believed to be at least 5,000 years old, they scored another major breakthrough. This time around, the same researchers have put a face to the … Continue reading Reconstruction Offers a Glimpse of the Face of “Penang Woman” →

The cache of Ancient Knucklebones Discovered in Israel In this vale of tears, any help peering into the future would be useful. Now, archaeologists report finding over 600 astragali – small bones from quadruped feet – in the ancient city of Maresha, central Israel. Dating to the city’s Hellenistic period some 2,300 years ago, what … Continue reading The cache of Ancient Knucklebones Discovered in Israel →