Oldest human footprint in Americas may be this 15,600-year-old mark in Chile
The earliest human footprint on record in the Americas wasn’t found in Canada, the United States or even Mexico; it was found much farther south, in Chile, and it dates…
Civilizations
Mysterious Viking swords at 1,200-year-old burial site unearthed
Archaeologists in Sweden discovered a Viking Age burial with animal bones and two swords that look to have served as grave markers.
Ancient civilizations, from which only secrets remained
The once-powerful people who built gigantic cities hid most of their secrets behind the veil of time.
Are the ‘Chachapoya Clouds Warriors’ of ancient Peru descendants of Europeans?
At 4,000 km upriver you reach the foothills of the Andes in Peru, and there lived the people of the Chachapoya, also called “The Warriors of the Clouds.” There is…
Celtic woman found buried inside a tree ‘wearing fancy clothes and jewellery’ after 2,200 years
Archaeologists believe she did minimal physical labor throughout her lifetime and ate a rich diet.
Ancient mechanisms: Did giants build this Japanese megalith weighing hundreds of tons?
A place like this is perfect fodder for conspiracy theorists, who might beckon to the fascinating idea that ancient giants could have created such huge and complicated monolithic structures.
10 most mysterious discoveries made in the eternal ice of the Arctic and Antarctic
Whether it’s traces of extraterrestrials or unexplained natural phenomena, the Arctic regions of eternal cold continue to disturb the minds of researchers and theorists.
Is this really a 300-million-year-old aluminium piece of advanced machinery?
They were astonished to learn the supposed age of this discovery when prominent experts examined the metal artifact. It was almost 300 million years old!
Mummy Juanita: The story behind the Inca Ice Maiden sacrifice
Mummy Juanita, also known as the Inca Ice Maiden, is a well-preserved mummy of a young girl who was sacrificed by the Inca people more than 500 years ago.
The mysterious Rongorongo writing of Easter Island
It is true that Easter Island is best known as the site of the mysterious and majestic moai statues, but these are not the only wonders that the South Pacific…
