Archeology

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Two billion years ago an enormous asteroid slammed into what is now South Africa. It left behind the largest and second oldest confirmed impact...

Archaeologists believe they have discovered an ancient Stone Age settlement once home to thousands of people 8,000 years ago. Today, it rests at the bottom...

The severed head of the world’s first full-sized Pleistocene wolf was unearthed in the Abyisky district in the north of Yakutia.  The wolf, whose rich...

Humanity has achieved a lot of the past 2,000 years. We’ve explored every continent, painted masterpieces, eradicated diseases, and even landed on the Moon. But...

Archaeologists have uncovered two remarkable Bronze Age burial sites in Siberia, each containing the remains of a shaman sporting some astonishing paraphernalia. One of these ancient...

A prehistoric forest of hundreds of trees which died more than 4,500 years ago has been uncovered on a Welsh beach after low tides...

More than 100 giant stone jars, thought to have been used in burial rituals thousands of years ago, have been rediscovered at ancient sites...

Alcatraz might be best known as a popular tourist destination, the site of the former high-security prison that once held Al Capone. But a...

Discovered by archaeologists in a tomb in San Giorgio near Mantua, Italy. The couple have been holding one another for 6,000 years. The two...

Some 3,700 years ago, a meteor or comet exploded over the Middle East, wiping out human life across a swath of land called Middle...

Archaeologists have uncovered portions of the ancient Greek city of Tenea, whose residents claimed they were prisoners of the Trojan War. The uncovered parts...

Archaeologists have been unearthing pyramids, plazas and hundreds of carved monuments in southern Mexico's Izapa Kingdom since the 1940s, but it wasn't until recently...

New archaeological evidence suggests humans were cultivating and consuming cacao — the crop from which chocolate is produced — as long as 5,300 years...

MONTHS of drought have left the Rhine river and the Danube river at a record low, dealing a blow to the economy and exposing...

The discovery of a 10-year-old child's remains at an ancient Roman site in Italy is an "extremely eerie and weird" evidence of "vampire burials,"...

Legends talked of an ancient Indian metropolis, where ancestors of today's Wichita Nation lived. Now, in Arkansas City, south-central Kansas, where the Walnut and...

A bizarre mummy from ancient Egypt combining the heads of a girl and a crocodile was photographed for the first time in more than...

There is a new archeological mystery in Alexandria. Archaeologists have unearthed a 8.6-foot-long sarcophagus buried in Egypt 2,000 years ago beside a massive stone...

The priest quickly sliced into the captive's torso and removed his still-beating heart. That sacrifice, one among thousands performed in the sacred city of...

Archaeologists in Peru have discovered more than 25 large drawings carved into the earth near the Nazca Lines in a southern coastal desert. They...