Illustration by Tom Bjorklund   di Alessandra de Nardis Prehistory is certainly an inexhaustible place of questions that are unlikely to ever find answers. When we …

Several human skulls were found during an archaeological dig at Sayre, Bradford County, Pennsylvania, in the 1880s. Except for the peculiarity of their projections, two …

  In the realm of science fiction and monster movies, King Kong has remained an iconic and beloved character since his debut in 1933. Throughout …

An amateur treasure hunter armed with a metal detector has found over 52,000 Roman coins worth $1 million buried in field, one of the largest …

A stunning discoʋery has Ƅeen мade Ƅy a Dutch historian using a мetal detector – a rare мedieʋal gold treasure. Aмong the treasures found were four exquisite …

The chastity belt is an item that titillates and fascinates in equal measure. The idea of the brave medieval knight locking up his beloved, naively believing a …

The Legendary Sword in the Stone of San Galgano is a medieval sword embedded in a stone in the Chapel of Montesiepi, located in the …

This headdress or crown was found on the head of a warrior buried with his sword and shield. It is made from two sheets of …

Discovery of a large statue of the Minotaur, which was submerged in water, in the region of Patagonia. A Minotaur sculpture with a human torso …

Th𝚎 h𝚊n𝚍 im𝚙𝚛int 𝚊t th𝚎 w𝚊ll 𝚘𝚏 𝚊n 𝚊nci𝚎nt m𝚘𝚊t 𝚘𝚞tsi𝚍𝚎 J𝚎𝚛𝚞s𝚊l𝚎m’s Ol𝚍 Cit𝚢. C𝚛𝚎𝚍it: F𝚊c𝚎𝚋𝚘𝚘k/Is𝚛𝚊𝚎li Anti𝚚𝚞iti𝚎s A𝚞th𝚘𝚛it𝚢 M𝚢st𝚎𝚛𝚢 s𝚞𝚛𝚛𝚘𝚞n𝚍s th𝚎 𝚛𝚎c𝚎nt 𝚍isc𝚘v𝚎𝚛𝚢 𝚘𝚏 𝚊n …

The Altamura Man lived more than 130,000 years ago when ice sheets were expanding from out of Antarctica and Greenland. His fossilized skeleton imprisoned in …

Life’s a beach — or is it a boneyard? A skeletal hand appendage washed up in Brazil this week — and a horrified couple was …

We tend to associate mummies with ancient Egypt, but a lot of culture around the world practiced mummification. The Anga tribe of the Aseki region …

When the archaeologists opened the main coffin, they discovered layers of silk and linens coated in a dark liquid. Most people associate mummies with Egyptian …

In a remarkable turn of events, the discovery of a crashed World War II plane has been made possible thanks to the construction of a …

The eye of trilobite Walliserops trifurcatus, which lived in what is now Morocco over 350 million years ago. (Chip Clark/Smithsonian) Nature has tried some pretty wild approaches …

In tandem with his 1-08-18 show appearance, Steve Quayle shares images of sculptor Mark Patrick’s elongated skull. “We will have this and a full-size 12-foot …

In mythology, mermaids — or mermaidlike creatures — have existed for thousands of years. The first myths of mermaids may have originated around 1000 B.C. …

Hair on 2,000-year-old mummies has helped reveal what Paracas people in Peru ate in the weeks before their death. A team of archaeologists used the …

The golden cape, made from the silk of more than a million female Golden Orb Weaver spiders collected in the highlands of Madagascar exhibited at …