Category: Archaeology

Screaming Skulls and Headless Spirits

For thousands of years across many different cultures across the world people have believed that the head or skull has held the soul. Some tribes […]

Older Than the Rolling Stones

Before dawn Saturday, thousands of revelers will again gather among the monoliths at Stonehenge to sing, bang drums and frolic beneath a solstice sunrise. Theories […]

Sweden returns pre-Incan funeral shroud to Peru

A rare and fragile pre-Incan funeral shroud was displayed to reporters Monday, part of the first batch of ancient Paracas textiles that Sweden is returning […]

Remains of ‘End of the World’ Epidemic Found in Ancient Egypt

Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of an epidemic in Egypt so terrible that one ancient writer believed the world was coming to an end. read […]

Neolithic art given a modern makeover on Anglesey

Dr George Nash from the University of Bristol and Welsh Rock Art Organisation WRAO has led a team of archaeologists at Barclodiad y Gawres, a […]

Archaeologists Recreate ‘Elixir of Long Life’ After Unearthing 1800s Bottle

Archaeologists have dug up a 19th-century recipe for fending off death.During a recent excavation beneath a hotel site at 50 Bowery, Chrysalis Archaeology discovered a […]

Five Wells Chambered Cairn – West of Taddington, Derbyshire

This site is the remains of a circular chambered cairn that originally had two back to back opposing limestone chambers facing east and west and […]

Grave digger finds ancient axe in village churchyard

Pieces of a tool used about 6,000 years ago have been found in a Northumberland village.Whilst working in Mitford Churchyard, a grave digger from Rothbury […]

‘Dracula’s tomb’ discovered in Italy

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Estonian researchers believe they may have finally discovered the whereabouts of “Dracula’s” grave, which is in Italy and not the Romanian Transylvanian Alps as first […]

Stonehenge: a satanic temple?

The minutes of the Stonehenge Round Table meetings rarely disappoint. The latest contain this, under the heading “Special Access”: “A Forum member reported that he […]

The British Museum and the Unlucky Mummy

Established in 1753 and opened to the public on 15 January 1759, the British Museum has over seven million artifacts mapping human history and culture […]

Secrets of the Great Wall: How Was the Great Wall Built and Why?

The Great Wall is the ethnic symbol of China and is one of the greatest wonders of the world. It belongs not only to China, […]

Polish meteorite venerated by Neolithic man?

The meteorite was discovered among a large group of sacral objects in a hut on the banks of Swidwie Lake in the West Pomeranian region. […]

BBC News – Campaign to buy ‘Lindisfarne hoard’ for Great North Museum

An archaeological group is hoping to buy a collection of gold and silver coins unearthed by a builder 11 years ago.Richard Mason found a pottery […]

Ancient Mayan Altars, Sculpted Artwork Discovered in Guatemala

A team of archaeologists in Guatemala has discovered a council house dating back about 700 years with altars, incense burners and sculpted images of animals. […]

2000 Year Old Extinct Tree is No Longer Extinct

At Herod the Great’s palace in Masada, Israel, from the year 1963 to 1965 an excavation was carried out. It was an excavation which blew […]

Paris Catacombs – The Mysterious Underworld Home of Cataphiles & Secret Societies

The Paris Catacombs – one of the most coveted, mysterious destinations in the French capital occupying part of a vast network of abandoned mines which […]

Dig team uncovers coins, ceramics and 2,000-year-old tweezers

A pair of 2,000-year-old tweezers has been found during an archaeological dig at a Roman villa in Leicester.The centuries-old artefact was part of a haul […]

Archaeologists find ketchup, fishy condiments, beer and radios at World War II Prisoner of War camp

Six brick and concrete buildings, nine drain junction boxes, five concrete paths and a road were found at the site known as Camp 22, Temple […]

3,000-year-old skeleton of baby found at birthplace of Halloween

The 3,000-year-old remains of a baby have been found during an archaeological excavation at a site in Meath that is believed to be the birthplace […]

Nottingham cave find prompts volunteer appeal

An archaeologist has appealed for volunteers to help locate man-made caves beneath Nottingham’s streets following the discovery of a new cavern. BBC News – Nottingham […]

Archaeologists discover bottles and hearth of pub on haunted 19th century cattle lands

Resting with their feet up and supping a drink, the spoils of a drover or traveller, popping to the pub in rural Scotland 200 years […]

World’s Oldest Solar Device

Special thanks to author John Perlin for this contribution about what is believed to be the world’s oldest solar device – a solar ignitor, or […]

“Lady Be Good” B-24 Bomber, Quartermaster Graves Registration Search and Recovery

Story of the 1959-60 search for and recovery of crew members of the B-24 Bomber Lady Be Good. This aircraft was discovered in the Libyan […]

Everything found in the Atari desert dig and where it’s headed

This spring, hundreds of long-buried Atari cartridges were excavated from a landfill. Here’s the full list of what was found and what’s next for these […]