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.
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Auckland wastewater pipe dig reveals astonishing “fossil treasure trove”
Through over 300,000 fossils and the identification of 266 species, including ten never-before-seen variations, scientists and experts have revealed a world that existed between 3 and 3.7 million years ago.
The mysterious ‘helmet’ of the Lady of Elche
One of the most enigmatic ancient sculptures ever discovered is The Lady of Elche, with its strange helmet that could link it to a long-lost prehistoric civilization or visitors from…
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.
The London Hammer – a 400 million years old intriguing OOPArt!
Discovered in Texas, in 1936, the London Hammer was embedded in a limy rock concretion originating from the Cretacious rock formation 400 million years ago! The 6-inch-long hammerhead consists of 96.6% iron and has not rusted since its discovery!
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.
10 fascinating facts about Obelisks
Obelisk, a tall, four-sided, tapered monolithic pillar, which ends in a pyramid-like shape. In the capitals of the countries in all over the world, you can see this tall, inscribed…
Stone Age child found buried with feathers and fur in Finland
An archaeological excavation in Majoonsuo, Outokumpu, eastern Finland, yielded an astonishing find: a Stone Age child interred with feathers and fur. On a gravel road in a forest, the archaeological…
