Ancient Egyptian attempts to treat cancer seen in nearly 5,000-year-old skull Archaeologists have unearthed evidence of ancient practices which might change our understanding of ancient Egyptian life. Two skulls, both thousands of years old, bear cut marks which could be…
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Lost World War II Sub Discovered in South China Sea Shipwreck hunters have discovered the remains of a famous American submarine that sank with 79 crew members on board while fighting a Japanese warship near the Philippines in 1944. According…
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Is Mount Padang Hiding the World’s Oldest Pyramid? Though few know it, there’s been an ancient pyramid hiding underneath a mountain in West Java, Indonesia for millennia. It’s called Gunung Padang, a name that means “the Mountain of Light,” and…
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Ancient Superhighways: 12,000-Year-Old Underground Tunnels Stretching from Scotland to Turkey Over a million miles of tunnels connect every country and region across Europe, from the Scottish highlands to the Mediterranean coast. It’s awe-inspiring to see this 12,000-year-old underground network. According…
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Mystery Burial: 17th Century Scandinavian Girl Found with Bird Skulls in Mouth in Polish Cave When long-dead human remains are found buried in unusual circumstances, anthropologists are usually able to piece together why. But the bones of a child that…
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100-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Bones Discovered in Meghalaya, India – Titanosaurian Sauropods Found Researchers have identified fossil bone fragments of long-necked dinosaurs called sauropods, dating back to about 100-million-years from an area around West Khasi Hills District in Meghalaya. The yet-to-be-published findings were…
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Discover the 3,000-Year-Old Prosthetic Toe: A Testament to Ancient Egyptian Innovation Almost two decades ago, archaeologists working in a burial chamber in the Sheikh ´Abd el-Qurna necropolis west of Luxor, Egypt, found something unexpected: An exquisitely crafted prosthetic big toe…
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Unraveling Philistine Origins: Ancient DNA Links Biblical Enemies to European Ancestry An international team, led by scientists from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History and the Leon Levy Expedition, retrieved and analyzed, for the first time,…
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