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Medieval Coin in Canada Challenges Story of North American Discovery A gold coin discovered in Newfoundland could “rewrite the history books.” Directly challenging the mainstream narrative of the discovery of North America, this coin suggests Europeans were in Newfoundland earlier than currently believed. Exciting Discovery of Medieval Coin in Canada This week the Government of …
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Nimrud lens: Did Assyrians invent telescopes 3,000 years ago The Nimrud lens is a 3,000-year-old piece of rock crystal unearthed by Sir John Layard in 1850 at the Assyrian palace of Nimrud, in modern-day Iraq. Since its discovery over a century ago, scientists and historians have debated its use, with one prominent Italian professor claiming the …
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Drought Reveals 110-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Tracks In Texas Riverbed This summer, devastating droughts have revealed dead bodies and sunken Nazi ships, but it hasn’t been all macabre: a set of dinosaur tracks have recently been discovered due to the receding waters at the Dinosaur Valley State Park in Texas. Once covered by mud, silt, and shallow …
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70 Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Egg Fossils Have Been Discovered in China Ancient dinosaur egg fossils thought to be some 70 million years old have been discovered at a construction site in southeast China. The remains of five shells were found buried in sandstone in the city of Foshan in China’s Guangdong Province, at a depth of …
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An inscription containing 15 headless falcons and unknown ancient rituals found in an ancient Egyptian temple Archaeologists have discovered a shrine containing previously unknown ancient rituals during excavations at Berenike, a Greco-Roman port in Egypt’s eastern desert. The discovery was made by archaeologists from the Sikait Project led by Professor Joan Oller Guzman at the …
UK taxi driver becomes first mummy for 3,000 years A former British taxi driver has become the first person in the world for 3,000 years to be mummified in the same way as the pharaohs. Channel Four viewers will see Alan Billis turned into a mummy over the space of a few months as his body is …
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Blue-Eyed, Black-Skinned British Hunter Closes Race Debate A 10,000-year-old hunter had “dark to black” skin, a groundbreaking DNA analysis of Britain’s oldest complete skeleton has revealed. The Cheddar Man fossil was unearthed in Gough’s Cave in Somerset over a century ago. Archaeologists determined at the time that he was one of the first settlers to …
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Ancient Anomalous Human Skeletons: Humanity Could be Much Older Than We Think There are many reported human skeletal finds which are in discordance with current evolutionary beliefs dating back to anomalously ancient geological periods in the distant past, way before it is accepted that human beings ever existed. One intriguing report surfaced in an American …
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DNA Study Finds Aboriginal Australians are the Oldest Civilization in the World Australia has one of the longest histories of continuous human occupation outside Africa. But who exactly were the first people to settle there? Such a question has obvious political implications and has been hotly debated for decades. The first comprehensive genomic study of …
Archaeologists Say They’ve Solved Mystery of How Pyramids were Built After Unearthing 4,500-Year-Old Ramp Has the riddle of how the ancient Egyptians built the pyramids finally been solved? A multi-national team of experts say yes after they unearthed an ancient ramp, which they say was used to haul giant blocks into place. Despite centuries of …
