A Giant Sarcophagus Has Been Discovered In Egypt
Archaeologists in Egypt have a hard question to answer: who is the colossal figure buried inside this massive sarcophagus? The discovery was made during an excavation in the Sidi Gaber district of Alexandria. Measuring a whopping 2.65 meters (8.7 feet) in length, the discovery is the largest granite sarcophagus ever found in the area, which is renowned for its ancient … Continue reading
Groundbreaking DNA Test of 10,000-year-old Fossil Finds First Modern Brits Were Black
A pioneering genetic analysis of the UK’s oldest complete skeleton, which is around 10,000 years old, has revealed that the first modern Britons had a “dark to black” complexion. The National History Museum carried out cutting-edge genetic sequencing and facial recognition technology on the ‘Cheddar Man,’ the skeleton found near Gough’s Cave in the Cheddar Gorge, and found that the … Continue reading
Cave Paintings from Lost Civilization Depicts Human-Animal Hybrids
A team of archaeologists has discovered a vast array of pre-European conquest artwork from a lost civilization in a series of tiny caves on an uninhabited island in the Caribbean. Some of the artwork was already known to archaeologists but had been misidentified as far more recent than it actually was. The Taíno people, a forgotten civilization that were wiped … Continue reading
Deciphered 3,200-Year-Old ‘Script’ Tells of Invasions of Mysterious Trojan Sea People
Ancient symbols on a 3,200-year-old stone slab have been deciphered by researchers who say they could solve “one of the greatest puzzles of Mediterranean archaeology”. The 29-metre limestone frieze, found in 1878, in what is now modern Turkey, bears the longest known hieroglyphic inscription from the Bronze Age. Only a handful of scholars worldwide, can read its ancient Luwian language. … Continue reading
Archaeologists Reconstruct Face of Medieval Man Who Died 700 Years Ago
The face of a British man who died about 700 years ago has been brought to life using reconstructive technology. The medieval man was buried along with hundreds of others in a graveyard underneath what is now the Old Divinity School building of St. John’s College at the University of Cambridge, in the United Kingdom. By studying his remains and … Continue reading
Mysterious Mini Pyramid Discovered in China
China is not generally know for pyramids, so any discovery of one in that country is a mystery. When the pyramid is a fraction of the size of those in Egypt and dates to the prosperous Silk Road period, the mystery deepens. Construction workers in Zhengzhou in the Henan province recently discovered a mini pyramid approximately six feet tall situated … Continue reading
Skeleton of Giant Reportedly Found on Malaysian Island
How tall does one have to be in order to be considered a giant and not just “larger that usual”? Would you consider 5 meters (16.4 feet) tall to be giant or larger than usual? We may soon find out after Malaysian media reports the finding of large bones in a cave and extremely long graves outside the cave on … Continue reading
Strange Small Elongated Skull Found in Peru
What is it with Peru and elongated heads, strange skulls and alien-looking mummies? The latest alleged alien artifact to surface in this country is a small elongated skull. Is it real or fake? If it’s real, who or what did it once belong to? Photos and videos of the skull are blasting around the Internet. Most sites say it and … Continue reading
