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History wars: archaeologists battle to save our heritage from the nighthawks
Like grave-robbers, they come at the dead of night, wearing camouflage and dark clothes to avoid detection. Armed with increasingly powerful metal detectors, they work their way across the fields,...
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Entire Family Executed by First Female Emperor of China: Tomb Reveals Bloody...
1,300 years ago Yan Shiwei was an honored magistrate dedicated to supporting the first (and only) female Emperor in Chinese history—until she had him and his family executed. His bones have now been...
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Human Tragedy Revealed at ancient city: Excavations uncover mass grave at...
The skeletal remains of several hundred bodies piled high behind a ruin wall are testimony to the terrible tragedy that unfolded in the ancient city of the Seven Mounds. Archaeologists have uncovered...
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Researchers Study Mysterious Deaths in Mass Grave at Ancient Haft Tappeh
A mass grave containing the remains of more than 250 people was discovered by archaeologists at the ancient city of Haft Tappeh, Iran. Scientist are now working to determine how these people perished,...
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Bronze Age Mining in Europe Dates Back Earlier than Previously Thought
Mining in the Alps dates back much further than previously thought -- in the Austrian region of Montafon since the Bronze Age. Thanks to C14 dating, a group of researchers from Goethe University in...
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Mysterious board game found in ancient Chinese tomb, along with suspected...
Looters seem to have rolled the dice and lost when they plundered the tomb of an ancient aristocrat in Qingzhou City, China. When archaeologists uncovered the 2,300-year-old tomb, they found pieces of...
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Researchers Claim Glastonbury Ancient Legends Made Up By Cash-Strapped Monks
The famous legends of King Arthur and his round table, among other ancient myths, were stories made up and peddled by enterprising monks at Glastonbury Abbey to make some cash, say researchers. What’s...
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Social Networks Aid Army of Tomb Raiders in China
Looters have been skulking around and digging up family treasures as long as rich sites filled with valuable artifacts have existed, but now gangs have become sophisticated and organized, and are...
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The Adena Giant Revealed: Profile of Prehistoric Mound Builders
In the 1800s, reports began to surface of the discovery of very large skeletal remains in the burial mounds of North America. These skeletons were described as reaching seven to eight feet (2.4 meters)...
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Long-Lost Tomb Belonging to Suleiman the Magnificent Believed to be Found
When Suleiman the Magnificent died —once one of the most powerful and longest-reigning rulers of the Ottoman Empire— it is said his heart and body were separated and buried in two secret locations....
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Divers locate 2,000-year-old Roman wreck with cargo of fermented, salted fish...
Underwater Italian archaeologists have located a first or second century AD shipwreck that was carrying 3,000 clay jars filled with Roman fish sauce made by fermentation of salted fish intestines.Fish...
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150,000 fled for their lives, but were slaughtered by Julius Caesar army,...
A cache of bones and artifacts buried at a site near to where the Waal and Meuse rivers meet testify to a genocidal slaughter of tragic proportions. As recorded by Julius Caesar himself, a bloody...
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Reconstructing Jesus: Using Science to Flesh out the Face of Religion
For being one of the most widely recognized men in the last 2,000 years, the true appearance of Jesus of Nazareth remains a mystery. Traditionally portrayed in western art as a be-robed, light-skinned...
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Top Ten Historical and Archaeological Discoveries of 2015
2015 was another great year for archaeological and historical research. Amazing discoveries were made all over the world and provided more windows into the lives of our ancestors. Studies that...
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Ten Odd and Mysterious Historical Finds of 2015
Historians and archaeologists alike are not always faced with the ordinary. While much of their time is spent scanning through historic texts or unearthing ancient ruins and human remains, occasionally...
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Top 10 Underwater Discoveries of 2015
Treasures to be found at the depths of the oceans and seas captivate the mind and imagination. The play of light and dark under the waters also provides a beautiful backdrop to the ancient artifacts....
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Pre-Viking Iron Age settlement will give a glimpse of life in Norway 1,500...
Archaeologists have discovered a pre-Viking Iron Age settlement dating back around 1,500 years ago on the Trondheim Fjord on Norway’s coast as they excavated the area prior to expanding an airport for...
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Top Ten Grisly and Gruesome Archaeological Discoveries of 2015
Archaeologists are sometimes faced with gruesome discoveries, which reflect brutality, violence, sacrifice, or painful surgical procedures carried out in ancient times. Here we feature ten such...
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The Controversial Iwajuku Site and the Argument for the Japanese Paleolithic...
It was once thought that the human habitation of the Japanese archipelago began during the Jōmon period (approximately between 13,000 and 500 BC) This view changed however, with the discovery of...
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Exploring the Megaliths of Magnetic Rock – Guidepost for Ancient Man?
Near Copper Harbor, Michigan, USA, at the northern tip of the Keewenaw Peninsula, a large and long protrusion of rock emerges far up the hillside in deep forest. Many petroglyphs cover this rock. It...
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