Forum: Archeology

A woman's deformed skull was found in one of the tombs, which dates to around 1,650 years ago. The skeleton of an ancient aristocratic woman whose...

Is anyone familiar with Ingo Swann's book Penetration? It's a pretty good read. If I could boil that book down to one brief statement it would be ...

This is pretty cool, 400,000 years is really freaking old. This discovery was published Dec 04 2013. They say they have discovered a new early human...

Mima mounds in western Washington as seen from the air. A new twist on an old mystery may finally settle the debate over the origin of Mima...

Multiple tombs await discovery in Egypt's Valley of the Kings, say researchers working on the most extensive exploration project in the valley since...

There is a relatively compact region of northern San Diego County that is home to numerous standing stones. I do not believe they are natural...

New research suggests that archaeologists who study Stonehenge have been searching for clues in the wrong place for 90 years. Archaeologists have...

Ancient texts tmay have revealled what could be the site of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.  Photo: ALAMY An academic from Oxford University...

A new volcanic island, called Nishino-shima, emerged from the ocean on Nov. 20, 2013. Ash and lava fragments blasting out of the ocean announced...

Remains of the oldest known stone-tipped throwing spears, described in a new paper, are so ancient that they actually predate the earliest known...

A female Euscorpius lycius. Greek mythology tells of a fire-breathing Chimera with the heads of a lion, a serpent and a goat that once stalked...

This may need to be moved. This Bronze mirror decorated with fish and birds dates back to China's Tang Dynasty (618 – 907 A.D.). It was seized...

White-lipped peccaries may not be glamorous-looking, but like their truffle-sniffing cousins, they sometimes turn up treasure. On the trail of the...

Workers slid massive stones along artificial ice paths, such as this 300-tonne marble carving Huge stones that make up parts of China's Forbidden...

This 2,300-year-old collar, which was worn by a mummy, was discovered in fragments in a tomb in Thebes. The falcons in the top corners signify the...

Live thylacines at Washington D.C. National Zoo in 1904. THE thylacine has officially been put on notice: the hunt is on. An international team...

King Tutankhamun's tomb was discovered in 1922. Image Credit: CC BY-SA 2.0 Harry Potts It has taken thousands of years, but a combination of...

The Monks Mound at the site of Cahokia. New research has suggested that a flood may have brought about the demise of the ancient American city. ...

The kraken is a gigantic octopus of legend (left) shown in a 1801 drawing by Pierre Denys, based on descriptions by French sailors. Vertebral disks...

Viking graves in Norway contain a grisly tribute: slaves who were beheaded and buried along with their masters, new research suggests. In...

Archaeologists surveying a construction site for a 16-storey hotel in London have discovered an “exceptional” Roman sculpture of an eagle holding a...

The mural painted in ocher (overlain here on a photo of Hasan Dağ volcano) is considered the world's earliest depiction of an eruption, as well as...

Image provided by Conrad Hoskin of James Cook University Queensland on October 28, 2013 shows the Cape Melville Leaf-tailed Gecko discovered in...