As most seasoned travellers will no doubt testify, stepping foot onto the Great Wall of China has to be up there with one of the …

Experts who researched an iron-age skull brain of 2,600 years of old have found evidence to explain why it survived until modern times in a …

The enormous prehistoric treasures Mother Nature continues to produce, this time in the form of a gigantic thigh bone, once belonging to a massive plant-munching sauropod …

1. Welcome Stranger – The largest nugget ever found, weighing 2316 troy ounces (72.04 kg) in 1869 in Australia.    2. Hand of Faith – …

This fine if rather intimidating woolly rhino can be found at Weston Park Museum, Sheffield, UK. The new rhino discovered is a juvenile, probably only …

Once I was asked, “Why is it referred to as Egyptology, indicating that it is to be studied along with scientific subjects?” To answer this …

One of the most remarkable archaeological finds has been the discovery of a massive Roman coin collection in a Swiss vineyard. A farmer unearthed the …

Hundreds of elite Anglo-Saxon women were buried with mysterious ivory rings. Now, researchers know the ivory came from elephants living about 4,000 miles away from …

An unknown species of human apparently mastered obsidian, something it had been thought only occurred in the Stone Age. Ateam of researchers affiliated with several …

A bannerstone is an enigmatic Native American artifact found in the eastern United States. They come in a range of shapes and sizes and are …

Created an unimaginably distant time in the past, diamonds are the most coveted and valued of precious stones. The story of the discovery and destiny …

 – Scientists report on the discovery of one of the largest Anglo-Saxon burial grounds in Britain. Archaeologists working on HS2 have made discoveries of national …

The ancient remains of a young mother and a child locked in a 4,800-year-old embrace were discovered by archeologists. Of 48 sets of remains discovered from …

 – It might sound odd, but the ancient Egyptian did in fact use pillows made of stone. The first people to use pillows were those …

Extinct dwarf hippos that once roamed Madagascar lived in forests rather than open grasslands preferred by common hippos on mainland Africa, researchers at the University …

  Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Columbus was not the first European to reach the Americas. The Vikings got there centuries before, although exactly when …

  The Ishtar Gate was the eighth gate of the city of Babylon (in present day Iraq) and was the main entrance into the great …

The examination of the skeleton of the recently found pre-historic man in Sri Lanka is believed to be 37,000 years old, an official from the …

Egyptian archaeologists discovered the tomb of a priest dating back more than 4,400 years in the pyramid complex of Saqqara south of the capital Cairo. …

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