Ancient History

It is safe to say that history is the study of change. However, apart from that, what are some of the other benefits of...

A lost temple reappeared after drought caused the water levels to recede in a village in Thailand. The 100-year-old Buddhist Wat Som Mam temple ruins...

First came the tree, all 19.5 metres of it, with roots and branches and leaves. Then, weeks later, the discovery of 150 fossilised logs,...

The longest prehistoric human trail ever discovered is 1.5 kilometers long, found in New Mexico, more precisely in White Sands National Park. The 427 human...

Goliath, described as having a jaw-dropping height, was felled by King David in the Hebrew Bible. But a new research questions whether or not Goliath...

A collection of 100 intact, sealed and painted anthropoid 26th Dynasty coffins, golden funerary masks and a 40 wooden statues of Saqqara goddess Ptah...

You think 2020 sucks? Meet the worst time in human history.

Learning no lessons from horror films of yore, Britain has plans for a high-speed rail project that will lay tracks over the ruins of...

Archaeologists in Hawaii have unearthed what have been described as a rare series of petroglyphs created by aboriginal inhabitants of the Waianae coast. The...

A seven-foot-long, 3,000 pound triceratops skull dubbed "Shady" has been unearthed in the Badlands of South Dakota. “It was so exciting … we just didn’t...

In the winter of 1847, the people of Ireland were suffering from a devastating famine. Members of the Choctaw Nation of American Indians gathered, collected...

Archeologists have just unearthed dozens of skeletons with deformed elongated skulls in an ancient Hungarian cemetery. This new find shows how people lived during the...

Archeologists have recently discovered a huge structure built from thousands of bones of dozens of woolly mammoths in Russia. It’s the oldest known structure of...

The long-lost capital of an ancient Maya kingdom has been discovered in the backyard of a cattle rancher in southeastern Mexico. Now dubbed Lacanja Tzeltal,...

This will likely blow your mind. 250+ photos and comparisons of ancient sites around the world, show that there is a LOT more to the...

Giant remains have been discovered under four feet of guano in Lovelock Cave in Nevada. According to the Paiutes, the mummiffied remains belonged...

Long ago, four Giants arrived in southeast Australia. While three decided to continue their ways across the continent, one giant named Budj Bim stayed, his...

The eruption of Mount Vesuvius killed people more slowly than once thought. A man who died in Herculaneum was found with an exploded skull and...

Reasearchers have discovered a massive magnetic anomaly near one of the Outer Hebrides' main stone circles. They suggest that this is the result of a...

Genesis Chapter 6 tells us: “There were giants in the Earth in those days, and afterward.” The biblical Goliath was said to be only one...

The newly discovered Nazca Line is humanoid shaped. It has a rectangular head and appears to be wearing a headdress and carrying a stick. Sometimes...

New CT scans of an ancient mummified cat dating back 2,500 years have revealed something rather unexpected. The mummy has 3 tails and 5 hing...

A mysterious fossil was found in a 600-pound rock that was dislodged by the dual Ridgecrest's earthquakes and their aftershocks back in July. Utility...

The Black Death ravaged medieval Western Europe, wiping out roughly one-third of the population. The genetic history of the bacterium believed to be behind the...

An incredible graveyard of Giants, buried 5,000 years ago, has been uncovered by archaeologists in eastern China. Many of the men discovered in Jiaojia village...

Bioarchaeologists have been studying the 500-year-old remains of child sacrifices found on top of the volcanos Ampato and Pichu Pichu in the Andes. They...

Archaeologists may have discovered the village where Jesus is said to have appeared after he was crucified.  According to the Gospel of Luke, after Jesus...

Weird things have been popping up in the Land of Enchantment since forever. Aliens knew what they were doing when they landed in New Mexico...

Juanita La Doncella or The Maiden is the name of a mummy of a teenage Inca girl who was sacrificed more than 500 years...

At least 227 slaughtered children have been found at the world's largest child sacrifice site in Peru. And as reported by the site's choef archeologist:...

Drouhgt is a nightmare for farmers... But sometimes it is gold worth for archeology! While mystical water lagoons are drying up in the jungle of Mexico,...

There are some creepy places where dead bodies just lay out in the open! Take Roopkund glacial lake, which is during the winter the...

"Mutilated and processed" is not a phrase that you ever hope to read in any context whatsoever. But it fits good to Sacred Ridge in...

Archaeologists working in the buried Roman city of Pompeii say they have uncovered a "sorcerer's treasure trove" of artefacts. This mysterious wooden box included good-luck...

A new species of extinct giant parrot has been discovered in New Zealand. This is both the world’s largest parrot and the first species of...

In 2013, Stefan Ansermet discovered luckily the oldest tree of Switzerland during an evening walk in the Swiss alps. The 300 million-year-old fossilized Cordaite was...

While excavating a 3,600-year-old palace in the once-great city of Avaris, Egypt, a team of archaeologists unearthed four pits. What's in the pits? It's...

The ruins of Ziklag, the long-lost town famed as a refuge for King David in the Hebrew Bible has finally been discovered by a team of...

Excavation of ancient Chinese tombs have revealed the oldest human skulls which were intentionally reshaped as part of a ritual to show status and...