7,000-year-old seal impression marks prehistoric site as early trade hub A team of archaeologists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HU) made a rare discovery when they unearthed a small clay seal impression dating back some 7,000 years. According to research...
Graves of nearly 600 cats and dogs in ancient Egypt may be world’s oldest pet cemetery Archaeologists in Egypt believe they have unearthed the world’s oldest known pet cemetery. Nearly 600 cats, dogs, and monkeys were discovered in Berenike, a remote...
Vast DNA Analysis of Hundreds of Vikings Reveals They Weren’t Who We Thought In the popular imagination, Vikings were fearsome blonde-haired warriors from Scandinavia who used longboats to carry out raids across Europe in a brief but bloody reign of terror....
Ice Age Cave Bear Remains Have Been Found Perfectly Preserved in Arctic Russia The perfectly preserved remains of an Ice Age cave bear have been discovered in the Russian Arctic — the first example of the species ever to be found...
Is the 20 million-year-old Wolfsegg Iron an artificially made artifact? In the year 1885, a worker named Reidl back unearthed the alleged 60 million-year-old artefact. The worker who discovered the mysterious artifact used to work at a foundry in Schöndorf / Vöcklabruck...
A New Late Ancient Necropolis Discovered on Hvar Island The protective investigation in the garden of the Radoevi Palace in the town of Hvar on the Croatian island of the same name has been concluded after two months of intensive archeological...
Israel discovers 1,000-year-old intact chicken’s egg So it goes: The egg, an extraordinary discovery from the Islamic period, had been in a toilet all these years. At least its innards can contribute to a DNA study of ancient chickens Archaeologists discover...
Earliest evidence that Jewish people in Britain followed a Kosher diet The first physical evidence of local mediaeval Jewish communities adhering to kosher laws has been discovered by archaeologists in England. Julie Dunne, the biomolecular archaeologist at the University of Bristol...
New Discoveries Imply Man Arrived in the Americas 26,500 Years Ago The Clovis people are thought to have been the first humans to arrive in the Americas, about 15,000 years ago. But now archaeologists have discovered evidence of humans visiting a...
Brutal 6,200-Year-Old Massacre Shows Humans Have Sucked for a Really Long Time More than 6,000 years ago, 41 men and women were massacred in what is now Potoani, Croatia, with victims ranging in age from 2 to 35 years old. Although...
