The Endurance: Shackleton’s legendary lost ship discovered!
A harrowing 21-month journey of survival as Shackleton and his crew endured unimaginable conditions, including freezing temperatures, stormy wind, and the constant threat of starvation.
Discovery
Three ancient Egyptian mummy faces revealed in stunning reconstruction
How did the ancient Egyptians look like 2,000 years ago? Did they have dark skin and curly hair? A Virginia-based laboratory has successfully recreated the faces of three mummies using their DNA.
Purpose of the mysterious “Armenian Stonehenge” revealed!
The 223 megalithic stones in the complex may have been used for prehistoric stargazing.
Greek farmer unexpectedly discovers 3,400-year-old burial chamber concealed underneath his olive grove
An excavation in an eight-foot-deep pit yielded two ancient coffins and a collection of funerary vases.
The strange Chernobyl fungi that “eat” radiation!
In 1991, scientists discovered a fungus named Cryptococcus neoformans at Chernobyl complex that contains large amounts of melanin – a pigment found in the skin which turns it dark. Later it was discovered that the fungi could actually "eat" radiation.
4,000-year-old Stonehenge of the Netherlands reveals its secrets
Archaeologists have discovered a 4,500-year-old sanctuary in the Netherlands that marks the solstices and equinoxes, and was also used as a burial ground.
Hidden details in ancient Egyptian tomb paintings revealed by chemical imaging
The technique called portable X-ray fluorescence has helped Egyptologists identify changes and adjustments to details of tomb decoration that are invisible to the human eye.
Unusual 7,000-year-old prehistoric clay figurine unearthed at Battifratta Cave, Lazio
The figurine dates to the Neolithic period, when ancient people first started to develop farming communities in Italy.
1,100-year-old breastplate to ward off evil may contain the oldest Cyrillic writing ever found
Researchers claim an inscription on a 1,100-year-old breastplate discovered in a ruined fortress in Bulgaria is one of the earliest known examples of Cyrillic text.
Archaeologists shed light on the lives of Stone Age hunter-gatherers in Britain
A team of archaeologists from the Universities of Chester and Manchester has made discoveries which shed new light on the communities who inhabited Britain after the end of the last Ice Age.
