Anyone who disturbs the tomb of an ancient Egyptian pharaoh will be afflicted with bad luck, illness, or even death. This idea gained popularity and notoriety after a string of mysterious deaths and misfortunes allegedly occurred to those involved in the excavation of King Tutankhamun's tomb in the early 20th century.
The discovery of human artifacts made from a long-extinct sloth bones pushes back the estimated date of human settlement in Brazil to 25,000 to 27,000 years.
There is a deep-seated notion that an ancient civilization with the same global culture dominated the Earth in the distant past.
Since the late 1990s, the discovery of hundreds of naturally mummified human remains dating to circa 2,000 BCE to 200 CE in the region of Tarim Basin has enthralled researchers with their intriguing combination of Western features and vibrant cultural artifacts.
The discovery of 167 bodies in a pond in Windover, Florida initially sparked interest among archaeologists after it was determined that the bones were very old and not the result of a mass murder.
The creature withstood temperatures above 40ºC, the near absence of oxygen and high amounts of methane.
The Vinča was a mysterious European culture that left in legacy an unknown, never successfully deciphered script.
The remarkably well-preserved bison was first discovered by gold miners in 1979 and handed over to scientists as a rare find, being the only known example of a Pleistocene bison reclaimed from the permafrost. That said, it didn’t stop gastronomically curious researchers from whipping up a batch of Pleistocene-era bison neck stew.
Glyptodons were large, armored mammals that grew to the size of a Volkswagen Beetle, and natives took shelter inside their gigantic shells.
This unusual tribe was believed to have been extraterrestrial because they had strange blue eyes, almond-shaped with double lids; they spoke an unknown language, and their DNA did not match any other known tribe.