Ancient necropolis unearthed next to busy train station in Paris
The 2nd-century graveyard has at least 50 tombs of men, women, and children, but its organizational structure and history are unknown.
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Bronze age artifacts used meteoric iron
Archaeologists had long been puzzled by iron tools dating thousands of years before iron smelting developed, but no, there was no precocious smelting, geochemists have concluded.
A list of famous lost history: How 97% of human history is lost today?
Many significant locations, objects, cultures and groups throughout history have been lost, inspiring archaeologists and treasure-hunters around the world to search for them. The existence of some of these places…
The mystery of the 7,000-year-old Ubaid lizardmen: Reptilians in ancient Sumer??
It is widely recognised in mainstream archaeology that civilisation began in Iraq, in ancient Mesopotamia, with the vast Sumerian civilization. There is, however, an archaeological find at the Al Ubaid…
This 75-million-year-old rock in Thailand looks like a crashed spaceship
Thailand is home to some of the world’s most beautiful temples and palaces, but it also has a lot of rocks. This is especially true at the Phou Sing mountain…
Fossil of an ancient spider species from Germany estimated to be 310-million-years old
The fossil comes from a strata that dates back 310 to 315 million years and marks the first Palaeozoic spider ever found in Germany.
Ancient antenna found at the bottom of Antarctica’s sea: Eltanin Antenna
Movements in the Earth's crust meant that large parts of Antarctica were ice-free 12,000 years ago and people could have lived there. Allegedly, a society could have existed before coming to an end with the last Ice Age which froze over the continent. And this could have been Atlantis!
Have researchers found 30-million-year-old “Giant Rings” in the Bosnian mountains?
Through the last few decades, scientists have discovered a number of mysterious ancient giant rings at numerous locations in the Bosnian mountains. According to the local population, it is believed…
At 3,000 meters high, mysterious artifacts found in ancient Inca cemetery in Ecuador
The discovery of twelve skeletons in an Inca “field” in Latacunga, in the heart of Ecuador, can shed light on the uses and ways of life in the Andean intercolonial…
Toumaï: Our earliest relative who left enigmatic questions for us around 7 million years ago!
Toumaï is the name given to the first fossil representative of the Sahelanthropus tchadensis species, whose practically complete skull was found in Chad, Central Africa, in 2001. Dated around 7…
