The Egtved Girl was a Nordic Bronze Age girl whose well-preserved remains were discovered outside Egtved, Denmark in 1921. Aged 16–18 at death, she was slim, 160 cm tall (about 5 ft 3 in), had short, blond hair and well-trimmed nails.

A Viking ship burial has been discovered at the site of Gjellestad in south-eastern Norway. It was first identified during a ground penetrating radar (GPR) survey, and is now being excavated by the Museum of Cultural History, Oslo.

The ancient Assyrians often treated their enemies cruelly, and they proudly depicted their treatment on reliefs.These two reliefs date to the reign of the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal (c. 669–631 BC). The first one depicts the death of the Elamite king, Teumman (also Teumann), and his son, Tammaritu, during the battle of Til-Tuba (River Ulai) in c. 653 BC. Teumman had been waging war against Ashurbanipal, but during the battle, which Ashurbanipal decisively won, Teumman met his end.

Ancient writing on stone in the Bilqis Temple ruins in the Saba Valley. One of the most famous archaeological sites in Yemen, it was once the capital of the Kingdom of Saba (Sheba).

Excavations on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi have uncovered two unique and deadly artifacts dating back some 7,000 years — tiger shark teeth that were used as blades.

An intact and inhabited Norman castle. The imposing location of Bamburgh, on top of a high basalt crag overlooking expansive sands and the wild North …

While surveying a fossil site outside of Moscow in Russia, scientists found a rock with a screw inside, dating it to be about 300 million years old.

Siberian permafrost preserved the body of this small ice age bird.

The mystery of Nefertiti – Egypt’s most beautiful queen with famous striptease and sudden disappearance from history

Discover El Tajin North of the city of Veracruz, is the town of Papantla.  Just outside of Papantla are some mysterious and fascinating archaeological ruins: …

In 1964, one of the world’s largest and most spectacular dismantling and reassembly projects was begun in Egypt. To rescue the ancient temples in Abu …

The Great Pyramid of Cheops has eight sides

Evidence which shows that ancient Egyptians had already crossed the Atlantic 3,000 years ago, long before Columbus in 1492, comes not only from the mimicking of cultural traditions as seen in Peru and the Canary Islands where evidence of trepanning and mummification has been found, but from the actual Egyptian mummies themselves.

In 1996, Belgian diver René Wauters made the archaeological discovery of a lifetime. Exploring the 45-metre-deep waters of Vele Orjule, a Croatian islet in the Adriatic Sea, he discovered a mysterious ancient bronze statue. Researchers would carefully study the statue for more than a decade to determine its age, origin and even the methods of its construction, thanks to nuclear techniques.

In the Age of Discovery, Portuguese soldiers embarked on daring expeditions to explore unknown territories and establish trade routes. To ensure their safety on ships and caravels, they wielded a unique weapon called the Carracks Black Sword, also known as the Crab Sword.

The Cugnot ‘fardier à vapeur’ was designed in 1769 by a French military engineer looking for a new way to haul heavy equipment to the battlefield. It ultimately failed, but its legacy lives on

A 1,200-year-old telephone, a marvel of ancient invention, surprises almost all who hear about it. Reportedly found in in the ruins of Chan Chan, Peru, the delicate communication artifact is known as the earliest example of telephone technology in the Western Hemisphere.

Aphrodisias – an ancient city in the area of present-day Turkey, was already known in the Hellenistic era due to the numerous marble deposits and dynamically operating sculptural workshops. In addition, crowds of the faithful drew this city because of the temple dedicated to the goddess Aphrodite.

People shared ‘old photos in real life’ that shows how time changes everything in a subreddit and here are 35 of the most interesting photos.

A massive disk of intricately carved stone looms over a gallery in Mexico City’s National Museum of Anthropology. The stone has long been an emblem of Mexican identity. Commissioned by the Aztec ruler Moctezuma II (r. 1502–1520), the nearly 12-foot-wide stone was completed during his reign, in about 1511. Eight years later, when Spanish conquistadores saw it atop a platform in the Aztecs’ central temple, the Templo Mayor, in the capital city of Tenochtitlan, one described it as “round, like a figure of the sun.” When the Spaniards leveled the capital, the stone disappeared, only to be rediscovered in 1790 beneath the city’s main plaza, the Zócalo, a block from where the conquistadores had seen it.