Archaeology
One of Mesopotamia’s greatest rulers was indicated by a lion, an eagle, a bull, a fig tree, and a plow coming together.
The Norton Disney Dodecahedron from Roman Britain is the largest one ever found.
When a new Mayan ruler came onto the scene, he wanted a clean slate.
The simple amulet is the oldest known example of a shift in metalworking
Three retirees have identified a rare trading vessel
Shall we take bets on how the ancient-alien conspiracy theorists will spin this one?
Astronomers at Nottingham Trent University have presented evidence that a 4000-year-old stone monolith, located at Gardom’s Edge less than an hour’s drive from Manchester, was used by Neolithic locals at the time as an astronomical marker. The monolith is 7.2-foot tall (2.2-meter), triangular in shape, angles up toward geographic south, and features packing stones arranged around […]
A team of archaeologists from Egypt and Switzerland unearthed the 3100 year-old tomb of a female singer in the valley of the kings – a woman not related to the ancient Egyptian royal families ever found there. This was published on numerous sites with faulty information, reporting that the tomb was 1100 years old (like […]
Archaeologists have uncovered an ancient urn dated from the Mayan classical period, which after a thorough chemical analysis was found to contain traces of nicotine. Though it has been documented in Mayan texts and folklore that tobacco use was a common part of the local community, this is the first hard evidence supporting the fact that Mayans […]
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