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Ancient Mall Found in Famous Theater City of Aspendos Shows Commerce and...
The ancient city of Aspendos was a major commercial center in Roman times. The recent excavations of a large shop complex with offices and storage facilities dating back some 2,000 years provide more...
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Constructing an Obelisk: How the True Rocks of Eternity were Made
Since Classical antiquity, the West has had a fascination with ancient Egypt. Even Roman tourists would regularly visit Egypt in droves and all but one of the Egyptian obelisks were removed at some...
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Intertwining Human Life and the Environment: Understanding Ancient Geometric...
The geometric earthworks of southwestern Amazonia have raised the interest within the scientific community as well as the media and the general public, and they have been explored recently by several...
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Grave of Medieval 'Infant Prince' Found in Arctic, One of 9 Newly-Discovered...
A young boy was laid to rest all alone with two iron knives, his feet trampling on reindeer bones, wearing an elaborate headdress decorated with iron rings. So far nine burials have been found, but...
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Recently Discovered 6 Million-Year-Old Hominin Footprints Have Just Been...
There has been a lot of interest in our discovery of nearly-6m-year-old footprints on Crete, first reported by the The Conversation – suggesting that human ancestors could have roamed Europe at the...
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Bones of the Child, Tools of the Shaman: Ritual and Cosmology at the Hopewell...
Near Trenton in Dade County, Georgia, is a place called Tunacunnhee, supposedly named after a Native American word meaning “Lookout Creek”. Located just a few hundred yards east of Lookout Creek is an...
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Chicanna: Enter the Maya House of the Serpent Mouth
A menacing serpent-like monster glares down at you as you cross the plaza of Chicanná in Mexico. While it is certainly an unnerving thought, you decide to step inside the gaping serpent’s mouth....
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Indiana Joan’s $1 Million Artifact Collection Has Got Her in a Spot of Bother
Ninety-five-year-old Joan Howard proudly showed off her collection of ancient artifacts to a local newspaper in Australia, not realizing that he story was to spark a worldwide controversy. Now...
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The Qurna Eviction: Separating the Living from the Dead in Egypt
Built atop the 3,000-year-old Tombs of the Nobles, Qurna, a village located on the West Bank of the Nile, is one of the most important archaeological sites in Egypt, but it is also one of the most...
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Game of Toes in Amarna: Missing Body Parts and Funerary Practices of King and...
Pharaoh Akhenaten was the subject of great controversy when he lived; and this did not cease after he died. If anything, his memory has both troubled and impressed people down to this day. Be it his...
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Titans Under the Earth: Evidence for The Tall Ones, and the Ancient Mounds of...
During the Early Woodland Period (1000—200 BC), the Adena people constructed extensive burial mounds and earthworks throughout the Ohio Valley in Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, and West...
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How to Save Ancient Origins from Becoming History! Facebook is Filtering Your...
Never mind using genetic engineering to bring back the Wooly Mammoths or Sabre-Tooth Tigers from extinction – keep them on ice! Right now, we need your help in stopping Ancient Origins from becoming...
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Reconstructing an Ancient Lethal Weapon
Archaeologists are a little like forensic investigators: They scour the remains of past societies, looking for clues in pottery, tools and bones about how people lived, and how they died.And just as...
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Lost Amazonian Tribes: Why the West Can’t Get Over Its Obsession with El Dorado
A number of ancient settlement sites were recently discovered in the Amazon’s Upper Tapajós Basin. This is no El Dorado – although you’d be forgiven for thinking so. The press coverage demonstrates a...
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Was Prayer to the Ancient Solar Gods enough to Change the Renowned Irish...
Ireland’s history is rich in dramatic myth and mysterious legends. The significance of the natural world, and most importantly the sun, was obvious in the daily lives of the pre-Christian Irish.Read...
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Mysterious medieval fortifications buried in Poland detected with advanced...
Archaeologists discovered evidence of unknown medieval fortifications which may indicate the presence of Hussite clashes near a small village in Poland. They found indications of the fort buried in...
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The Secret Tomb of the First Chinese Emperor Remains an Unopened Treasure
The tomb of the first emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang, despite being involved in one of the greatest archaeological discoveries of all times, endures as a mystery to archaeologists and historians as it...
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First Corinthian Helmet North of the Black Sea Has Been Discovered in Russia
The Russian RIA news agency has reported a remarkable find of an ancient Greek Corinthian helmet. The discovery was made in the Taman Peninsula in the southwest of Russia. The helmet was unearthed...
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Tiny Black Sea Island may be Hiding Lost Temple of Apollo
A lost temple dedicated to the Greek and Roman god Apollo may be hiding in Sozopol, Bulgaria, known in ancient times as Apollonia Pontica - ‘Apollonia on the Black Sea’.Archaeologists with the...
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Archaeologists Found the Grave of Famous Spanish Author, Cervantes
At the end of the 17th century Spanish novel Don Quixote de La Mancha, the author Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra warns a plagiarizing rival author “to let Don Quixote’s weary and moldering bones rest in...
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