Major discovery upends what we know of Stonehenge's origins
8-15-2024 |
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One of the Neolithic monument's most iconic stones came from much further afield than previously thought.
Mystery behind 4,000-year-old 'tablets of doom' has been solved
8-14-2024 | 6
Archaeologists have successfully deciphered doom prophecies written on ancient Babylonian cuneiform tablets.
Could an underwater mountain be the origin of the legend of Atlantis ?
8-13-2024 | 8
For years, archaeologists have pondered over the mystery of Atlantis and whether it ever actually existed at all.
12,000-year-old monument is thought to be world's oldest calendar
8-12-2024 | 4
The discovery was made at the world-famous archaeological site of Gobekli Tepe in southern Turkey.
Archaeologists unearth lost temple where Jesus performed miracles
VIDEO 8-10-2024 | 0
The ruins of the temple were discovered unexpectedly during the excavation of a synagogue in Israel.
Were Egypt's pyramids built using a hydraulic lift system ?
8-1-2024 | 51
Archaeologists have found evidence to suggest that a primitive hydraulic lift might have been used to move heavy stones.
Mystery as France's 'Excalibur' - the Durandal sword - disappears
7-4-2024 | 11
A sword that had been lodged in solid rock for over 1,300 years has gone missing under mysterious circumstances.
Over 1,400 mummies unearthed in ancient Egyptian 'City of the Dead'
6-28-2024 | 2
Archaeologists have discovered an extensive series of tombs and burials in the ancient Egyptian city of Aswan.
Study challenges idea that Easter Island's people committed 'ecocide'
6-24-2024 | 2
There may have simply been a much smaller population of people living on the island all along.
'Marge Simpson' found on coffin of Egyptian high priest's daughter
6-21-2024 | 7
This depiction of a woman on the lid of a 3,500-year-old Egyptian sarcophagus looks rather familiar.
Archaeologists may have solved mystery of 4,000-year-old 'Seahenge'
6-19-2024 | 6
The true purpose of the enigmatic timber circle situated along the British coastline had puzzled researchers for years.
Shackleton's last ship found on ocean floor off the coast of Canada
6-15-2024 | 0
The historic vessel was used during famed polar explorer Ernest Shackleton's last voyage to the Antarctic.
Giants, snakes and monsters among trove of ancient rock engravings
6-6-2024 | 1
Researchers have unearthed a huge collection of rock engravings in South America dating back over 1,000 years.
Exploration of 'holy grail of shipwrecks' worth $20 billion begins
5-27-2024 | 14
The wreck of the San Jose, a 300-year-old Spanish galleon, is thought to be filled with gold and jewels.
Translation of mystery stone slab yields surprising discovery
5-25-2024 | 18
Efforts to determine what was inscribed upon the stone, which was found in a man's patio, had proven challenging.
US once tried to use glow-in-the-dark foxes against Japan during WWII
5-21-2024 | 0
A lot of strange tactics were thought up during the Second World War, but this is perhaps one of the strangest of them all.
Have scientists finally figured out how the pyramids were built ?
5-20-2024 | 4
Scientists have discovered a long-lost branch of the Nile that was the key to the construction of the pyramids.
Mystery surrounds strange writing on stone slab found in garden
5-15-2024 | 18
The curious inscription was discovered quite by accident underneath a stone slab in a homeowner's garden patio.
Why does this 16th-Century illustration show a cat with a jetpack on its back ?
5-5-2024 | 29
This curious drawing is found in the manuscript of a book written in the 16th-Century by Franz Helm.
Has the mystery of the King Tut 'Pharaoh's curse' finally been solved?
4-27-2024 | 4
More than 20 people who excavated King Tutankhamun's tomb in the 1920s later died young from a range of maladies.
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