Easter island heads have bodies?

Excavations of the bodies have been going on for many years, you can find out more from the Easter Island Statue Project. It’s generally accepted that the statues were made sometime between 1250 and 1500 AD. There is controversy surrounding why the bodies are buried. Was it time....Read More...

150-Year-Old Lost Ship Found in Arctic

Shipwreck Yields Bronze-Age Gold

Hidden archaeological sites revealed

Ancient language discovered on clay tablets

Archaeologists have discovered evidence for a previously unknown ancient language – buried in the ruins of a 2800 year old Middle Eastern palace. The discovery is important because it may help reveal the ethnic and cultural origins of some of history’s first ‘barbarians’ – mountain tribes....Read More...

World's oldest doodle found on rock

Iron age dog unearthed guarding ancient treasure

Long Lost Michelangelo Sculpture Found?

Mayan art and calendar at Xultun stun archaeologists

Archaeologists working at the Xultun ruins of the Mayan civilisation have reported striking finds, including the oldest-known Mayan astronomical tables. The site, in Guatemala, includes the first known instance of Mayan art painted on the walls of a dwelling.

A report in Science says it dates from the....Read More...

Saudis uncover first pharaoh artefact signed by King Ramses III

Fossilized Dinosaur Discovered in Italian Church

Ancient Royal Horse Unearthed in Iran

Mexican experts find ancient blood on stone knives

Researchers had long seen cut marks on ancient bones that appeared to suggest varied practices of dismembering victims in many pre-Hispanic cultures, but the find announced Wednesday positively identifies the sort of actual knives that were used in the ancient rituals.

Mexico's National Institute of....Read More...

Mexican experts find ancient blood on stone knives

The Revelation Of The Pyramids

Fragment from worlds oldest Bible found hidden in Egyptian monastery

New evidence argues against prehistoric extraterrestrial impact event

Scientists found high levels of the reported markers in deposits called black mats, the organic-rich remains of old marshes and swamps, at several sites in the southwestern U.S. and the Atacama Desert of northern Chile. Markers were found in black mats ranging in age from 6,000 to more than 40,000....Read More...

German Artisans Lay Claim to a Mysterious Tradition

Ancient Mediterranean flood mystery solved

Closest Photos of Uncontacted Tribe Reveal Hidden Way of Life

A Look Inside an Egyptian Mummy

Researchers examined a 2,900-year-old mummy using X-rays, CT and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans. They found that he suffered from Hand-Schuller-Christian’s disease, a very rare condition that left him with lesions in his skull and spine. A large hole on his frontal-parietal bone can be readily seen in Read More...

Egyptian temples followed heavenly plans

Archaeologists uncover oldest document ever found in Jerusalem

Ancient tomb site uncovered in Viet Nam

Book of the Dead fragment found in Australian museum

Papyrus fragments from an Egyptian funerary text known as a Book of the Dead have been discovered in the archives of the Queensland Museum in Brisbane, Australia. We are incredibly surprised that we had such a significant object in our collection, museum CEO Ian Galloway told Australian press. The....Read More...

Tomb Discovery Sheds New Light on Inca Empire Origins

Scientists in bid to exhume the body of Shakespeare

3,000 Ancient Buddhas Unearthed in China

Faces of Cleopatra and Antony's Twin Babies Revealed

By Rossella Lorenzi

Cleopatra's twin babies now have a face. An Italian Egyptologist has rediscovered a sculpture of Alexander Helios and Cleopatra Selene, the offspring of Mark Antony and Cleopatra VII, at the Egyptian museum in Cairo.

Discovered in 1918 near the temple of Dendera on the....Read More...

King Tut tomb to get makeover

How medieval soldiers survived after battle thanks to early day brain surgery

Bronze Age shipwreck found off Devon coast

Extraordinary discovery of 12th century abbot's grave

For something like seven centuries he had lain undisturbed. He – or at least his remains – survived Henry VIII’s destruction of his abbey in 1537, eluded the grave-robbers that followed, and avoided discovery by Victorian archaeologists. Even deep excavations and the underpinning of the crumbling building in the....Read More...

Ancient Tree Carving Points to the Stars

Old Stone Age axe find could re-write Scottish history by 100,000 years

Stone Age Color, Glue 'Factory' Found

Swedish Stonehenge?

By Crystal Gammon, LiveScience Contributor

Ancient Scandinavians dragged 59 boulders to a seaside cliff near what is now the Swedish fishing village of Kåseberga. They carefully arranged the massive stones -- each weighing up to 4,000 pounds (1,800 kilograms) -- in the outline of....Read More...

The Stone Heads of Easter Island

Astrological Scene Found on Egyptian Tomb Ceiling

Prehistoric Hand Axes Older Than Once Thought