Prehistoric hooks and sinkers show early humans used advanced fishing techniques Courthouse News Service reports that a 13,000-year-old collection of 19 bone fishhooks and six grooved pebbles thought to have been used as sinkers has been unearthed on the banks of the Jordan River in northern Israel by a team of researchers led by Antonella … Continue reading Prehistoric hooks and sinkers show early humans used advanced fishing techniques →

GSI scientists stumble upon 100-million-year-old dinosaur bones in India Researchers have identified fossil bone fragments of long-necked dinosaurs called sauropods, dating back to about 100-million-years from an area around West Khasi Hills District in Meghalaya. The yet-to-be-published findings were made during a recent field trip by researchers from the Geological Survey of India’s Palaeontology division … Continue reading GSI scientists stumble upon 100-million-year-old dinosaur bones in India →

Archaeologists find 2,700-year-old toilet in luxurious palace in Jerusalem Archaeologists in Israel have unearthed a private toilet dating from the seventh century B.C.E., a time when such a luxury would have been unheard of. According to Amy Spiro of the Times of Israel, the crew discovered the carved limestone fixture ahead of construction in Jerusalem’s … Continue reading Archaeologists find a 2,700-year-old toilet in a luxurious palace in Jerusalem →

Ancient maps of Jupiter’s path show Babylonians’ advanced maths Analysis of an ancient codebreaking tablet has revealed that Babylonian astronomers had calculated the movements of Jupiter using an early form of geometric calculus some 1,400 years before we thought the technique was invented by the Europeans. This means that these ancient Mesopotamian astronomers had not … Continue reading Ancient maps of Jupiter’s path show Babylonians’ advanced maths →

A Valley in Kazakhstan Home to Countless Massive Stone Spheres Close to the town of Shetpe in Western Kazakhstan lies the Valley of Balls – or Torysh, as it is known in Kazakh. It consists of numerous ball-like rock formations strewn across a wide range of steppe land. The balls range in size from tiny … Continue reading A Valley in Kazakhstan Home to Countless Massive Stone Spheres →

Roman Temple Discovered in Ancient City of Tyre A new Roman temple has been discovered by archaeologists in the ancient Phoenician city of Tyre, located off the coast of Lebanon. The joint excavation, led by María Eugenia Aubet (Pompeu Fabra University of Barcelona), Ali Badawi (General Directorate of Antiquities of Lebanon), and Francisco J. Núñez … Continue reading Roman Temple Discovered in Ancient City of Tyre →

1,000-Year-Old Silver Coins Unearthed in the United Arab Emirates Ancient silver dirham coins minted one millennium ago in Morocco, Persia, Al-Rai, the Khorasan region, Armenia and Transoxiana have been discovered in Sharjah. A team from Sharjah Archaeology Authority made the discovery in the central region of the emirate. The Islamic coins were stored in an … Continue reading 1,000-Year-Old Silver Coins Unearthed in the United Arab Emirates →

Nazca Lines of Kazakhstan: More Than 50 Geoglyphs Discovered More than 50 geoglyphs with various shapes and sizes, including a massive swastika, have been discovered across northern Kazakhstan in Central Asia, say, archaeologists. These sprawling structures, mostly earthen mounds, create the type of landscape art most famously seen in the Nazca region of Peru. Discovered … Continue reading Nazca Lines of Kazakhstan: More Than 50 Geoglyphs Discovered →

10-foot-tall Bronze Age geoglyph of bull found in Siberia Is A First A geoglyph of a bull discovered in Siberia dates back more than 4,000 years, making it twice as old as the famed Nazca lines of Peru and millennia older than Uffington’s chalk-lined White Horse. Geoglyphs, which often have spiritual or religious meaning, are … Continue reading 10-foot-tall Bronze Age geoglyph of a bull found in Siberia Is A First →