The incredible discovery of a 20-meter-long Viking ship in Norway using georadar!
Ground-penetrating radar has revealed the outline of a Viking ship in a mound in southwest Norway that was once thought to be empty.
Civilizations
Predynastic site emerges from the sand: Nekhen, city of the Hawk
Nekhen was a busy city on the western bank of the Nile in predynastic ancient Egypt, long before the pyramids were built. The ancient site was once called as Hierakonpolis,…
The mysterious Egyptian sistro that could open portals and change climate?
For some, the sistro acts as the entrance and exit from one place to another used by the gods (portals), since it appears near the ‘false doors’ of ancient Egyptian…
16 ancient cities and settlements that were mysteriously abandoned
Civilizations rise and fall in the blink of a cosmic eye. When we unearth their ancient settlements decades, generations, or centuries later, sometimes we find that they were abandoned after…
Scientists follow a ‘yellow brick road’ in a never-before-seen spot of the Pacific ocean
The path to the Emerald City might travel along the ocean’s bottom. The crew (researerchers) of the Exploration Vessel Nautilus caught sight of a strange-looking formation while studying an area…
Melting ice reveals a lost Viking-era pass and ancient artifacts in Norway
Years of warm weather have melted most of the snow and ice, revealing a mountain route that regular humans walked for over 1,000 years—and then abandoned some 500 years ago.
The mystery of the undisturbed burial chamber inside Egypt’s little-known Dahshur pyramid
Having worked long and hard, archaeologists finally uncovered a previously unknown pyramid. Still, the most exciting part was the discovery of a secret passage that led from the pyramid’s entrance to an underground complex at the very heart of the pyramid.
Uncovering a Bronze Age barrow cemetery in Salisbury, England
A new residential housing development in Salisbury has revealed the remains of a major round barrow cemetery and its landscape setting.
Giant of Odessos: Skeleton unearthed in Varna, Bulgaria
The skeleton of enormous size was revealed during rescue excavations conducted by archaeologists from the Varna Museum of Archaeology.
The unknown origins of the mysterious Nomoli figurines
Locals in Sierra Leone, Africa, were searching for diamonds when they discovered a collection of amazing stone figurines portraying various human ethnicities and, in some cases, semi-human beings. These figures…
