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A temple of the god, Baal, built in the ancient city of Ugarit, nowadays called Ras Shamra, on the north-eastern shores of the Mediterranean coast of Syria, date back to the beginning of the Middle Bronze Period (c. 2000 BC). The Baal worshipped here
The 2,200-year-old mummified body of a Chinese noblewoman known as Xin Zhui, or The Lady of Dai, is an anomaly. When her body was discovered, it was so incredibly well preserved that it equalled that of someone recently deceased. Xin Zhui, the L
In County Meath, Ireland, stands one of the most mysterious ancient structures in the world - Newgrange. This massive stone tomb, built around 3200 BC, predates famous monuments like Stonehenge and the Great Pyramid . It's almost the size of a footb
Here's Part 2 of my live conversation with Graham Hancock where we discussed the theories there was once a great civilisation in the lost city of Atlantis wiped out by a great flood.
Fossil hunters Down Under have pieced together the story of a colossal prehistoric raptor?"a bird so huge its talons could have killed a kangaroo. The bones of a giant avian were collected from South Australia's Mairs Cave by cavers back in 1
A Spanish cave lost for 80 years has been rediscovered with over 100 unique prehistoric engravings on its interior walls. The cave's eight panels of incredible hand-engraved art are delivering further insight into prehistoric life in Spain. The
JP described several members of the team as archeologists and language experts who commented on the cavern's contents. Inside the chambers, his team found hieroglyphics and other writings on walls that the archeologists identified as Egyptian and o
Conventional archaeology propagates the notion that the further we look back into history, the more archaic the civilizations we see and the more inferior their methods of construction. Yet all over the world are ancient anomalies and megalithic marv
But before entering, this hunter-gatherer family stops to collect the small, thin branches of a pine tree. Bundled together, covered with resin and set alight, these branches will become simple torches to illuminate the cave's darkened galleries. T
Ancient Aryan Vimana's used Red Mercury to create anti gravity propulsion. #truenewsrealpeople
To measure the impact of lactose tolerance on the size of humans, Jay Stock at Western University in Ontario, Canada, and his colleagues collated data on 3507 skeletons from 366 archaeological sites in seven regions ?" the Levant, southern, central
Cranial deformation is a distinct and painful tradition. The objective of cranial deformation is to elongate the shape of the head. This procedure, once performed, cannot be reversed. More importantly, individuals who have had the procedure performed
Researchers uncovered a system of dots and Y-shaped marks which they believe were used to track the mating and birthing seasons of animals that served as important sources of food for hunter-gatherers in Stone Age Europe. For decades, experts have
Pozzolanic material, made from volcanic ash from a specific region of Italy, features prominently. So does lime, and in previous studies it was found that this helps concrete actually grow stronger over time in marine environments like piers. One com
The evidence, which continues to be examined and reinterpreted 116 years after its discovery, is on a windswept plateau in Egypt called Serabit el-Khadim, a remote spot even by Sinai standards. Yet it wasn't too difficult for even ancient Egyptians
Neglect a modern concrete structure for a few decades and it'll start to fall apart – and yet, structures built by the ancient Romans are still standing strong after 2,000 years.
A University of Cincinnati paleontologist refutes the latest timeline published in 2021 in the journal Nature that suggested mammoths met their end much more recently than we believed. An international team of researchers examined environmental DNA o
Researchers analyzed charred food remains at two locations?"the Shanidar Cave in Iraq's Zagros Mountains and the Franchthi Cave in Greece?"to gain insight into how Neanderthals and early modern humans prepared food. They found evidence of cooki
Most modern birds have a jointed upper jaw that allows the top half of their beak to move. But a select few, such as emus, rheas and ostriches, have a fused upper palate, making the top beak portion largely immobile. Dinosaurs also had fused palates,
An underwater "Stonehenge" stretches for miles under a lake in Europe. "I think it was something with a cultic context," one researcher theorized.
Today, the Nile flows more than 7 kilometers east of the Giza pyramids. However, Nile flow through a channel that linked the Giza plateau to the Nile, dubbed the "Khufu channel" after the famed Khufu pyramid at Giza (2,583,283 m3, 146 m high), ha
Recently the Sumerian Kings List came to my attention in relation to the numerology and metaphysics of 108. I was contemplating the validity of the application of the idea pertaining to the 8 (8 is symbolic for a complete set that is applicable to th
In the past, it was assumed dogs evolved to eat the grain-rich diets they often do today due to a genetic adaptation that developed after humans took up agriculture. After studying the bones of several hundred ancient dogs, the research team determin
Bay Area startup Earthgrid says it's developing a plasma boring robot that can dig underground tunnels 100x faster and up to 98% cheaper than existing tech, and it plans to use it to start re-wiring America's energy, internet and utilities grids.
German and Kurdish archaeologists have uncovered an ancient metropolis of the Mittani Empire once submerged below the Tigris River.
Archaeologists in Egypt announced Monday that they had uncovered a trove of ancient artifacts at the necropolis of Saqqara near Cairo, including mummies and bronze statues dating back 2,500 years.
A revolutionary new method, pioneered by an international research team led by Newcastle University, UK, has enabled the world's first extraction of organic residues from ten copper-alloy daggers excavated in 2017 from Pragatto, a Bronze Age settlem
The study shows Lapita people introduced pottery to Papua New Guinea that had distinct markings, as well as new tool technologies and animals such as pigs. "We found lots of Lapita pottery, a range of stone tools and evidence for shaping of obsidian
More than 30 years ago, researchers from the University of Zurich discovered vertebrae, ribs and a tooth in the High Alps of eastern Switzerland. The typical shape indicated that they had to originate from large marine reptiles known as ichthyosaurs,
It's been several decades since ecologists realized that graphing the diet-size relationship of terrestrial mammals yields a U-shaped curve when aligning those mammals on a plant-to-protein gradient. As illustrated by that curve, the plant-eating he
