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1. Post-Conquest Aztec Altar With A Burned Human Unearthed In Mexico City

   Archaeologists in Mexico have excavated a 16th-century Aztec altar surrounded by sacred artifacts. While abstract trinkets and incense burners reflected the structure of the cosmos, a giant clay jar contained burned human remains. This was no ordinary Aztec altar, but a sacrificial altar.

   ashley cowie - 03/12/2021 - 17:57

2. The Oldest? 17,300-Year-Old Kangaroo Painting Discovered in Australia

   ... that predates the arrival of modern  Homo sapiens  to Europe, which means someone else must have created them. And ...

   ashley cowie - 23/02/2021 - 17:20

3. The Kangyur Written with 9 Precious Stones

   ... immediately with awe like the soaring Gothic cathedrals of Europe, this artistic expression of the divine is really ...

   dhwty - 15/04/2014 - 03:26

4. The Mystery of the Peterborough Petroglyphs

   The Peterborough Petroglyphs are the largest collection of ancient rock carvings (petroglyphs) in all of North America, made up of over 900 images carved into crystalline limestone located near Peterborough in Ontario, Canada.

   aprilholloway - 17/09/2013 - 12:09

5. Unravelling the Lesser-known Laser-sharp Cuts of Megalithic Japan

   ... spanning out across the Pacific as well as into Eastern Europe. Was this megalithic culture, whoever it may have ...

   Freddie Levy - 20/05/2020 - 23:01

6. The Royal Flush: 2,400-Year-Old Toilet Used by Emperors Unearthed in China

   ... to public sewage systems. During the Middle Ages in Europe, toilets were often built above rivers, which helped ...

   Sahir - 18/02/2023 - 17:57

7. A 75,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Woman's Face Unveiled

   ... Neanderthals DNA Study Suggests Early Neanderthals Had Europe As Their Homebase The recreated head of Shanidar Z, ...

   ancient-origins - 02/05/2024 - 14:55

8. Herto Man: A 160,000-Year-Old Window into Homo Sapiens' Ancestry

   ... Show Human-Neanderthal Hybrids Originated in Levant, not Europe as Thought The discovery of the Herto Man challenged ...

   Aleksa Vučković - 14/01/2024 - 16:56

9. Japanese Researchers Are One Step Closer to Resurrecting Woolly Mammoths

   ... the genetic material of a dead mammoth in South Korea , Europe, and America, researchers are using gene-editing ...

   Ed Whelan - 12/03/2019 - 21:59

10. Mycenaean-like Dagger-Sword and Unique Seal Discovered at Anatolian Mound

    Kutahya in Western Anatolia is home to one of the world’s oldest settlements, which began 8,100 years ago. At this very site, during the excavations of Tavşanlı Höyük or the Tavşanlı Mound, a 3,300-year-old seal and a dagger-sword that resembles Mycenaean weaponry were unearthed.

    Sahir - 19/07/2022 - 22:59

11. What Would The Ancient Astrologers Have Told Us About 2017?

    ... and antipopes brought turmoil to the Church and across Europe. Plus, historically speaking, the beginnings of ...

    ancient-origins - 31/12/2016 - 23:01

12. Children of the Upward Sun River: 11,500-Year-Old Remains Shed Light on Alaska’s Earliest Inhabitants

    Upward Sun River is the name of an archeological site found in the Tanana River Valley in the interior of Alaska. The site was made famous in 2010 with the discovery of the remains of a young girl and then in 2013 with the discovery of two infant remains, buried perhaps 11,500 years ago. The name, Upward Sun River is the direct translation of the Middle Tanana name for the area, Xaasaa Na, as recalled by the last two remaining speakers of the language in a 1960s interview.

    Kerry Sullivan - 11/12/2016 - 03:40

13. Tara – Goddess of Compassion and Savior of the Suffering

    Tara is an important bodhisattva, i.e. someone on the path towards Buddhahood, in Buddhism, especially in Vajrayana (Tibetan Buddhism). Tara is considered to be a female figure and there are various stories regarding how she came into being.

    dhwty - 05/01/2020 - 00:53

14. ‘Ancient Alien Expeditionaries’ Reality Check

    ... was domesticated, cultivation spread north and west, to Europe and North Africa, and enabled humans to become farmers ...

    William E. Shaw - 11/12/2016 - 23:56

15. Neolithic Chinese Had a Special Relationship with Hares

    Researchers in China have found evidence that Stone Age people had a close relationship with hares. While they never domesticated them as they did with dogs, it appears that humans changed the behaviors of these small mammals.

    Ed Whelan - 12/05/2020 - 00:02

16. Tiller the Hun? Farmers in Roman Empire Converted to Hun Lifestyle

    ... evidence for a way of life we don't see anywhere else in Europe at this time," says Hakenbeck. She says there are no ...

    ancient-origins - 31/03/2017 - 01:53

17. 4,000-Year-Old Burial Revealed on Welsh Island Linked to Mysterious Druid Sorcerers

    ... from Britain, Ireland, Gaul (France), and other parts of Europe and Galatia during the Iron Age and possibly earlier ...

    Joanna Gillan - 29/06/2019 - 11:06

18. Miracles and a Thief: Lifting the Lid on the Legendary Chest of Saint Simeon

    ... Jure Grando and The First Documented Case of Vampirism in Europe Saint Augustine of Hippo and His Detours on the Long ...

    Natalia Klimczak - 04/12/2016 - 14:52

19. 1,800-Year-Old Golden Protective Jewelry Adorned Roman Girl

    In 1971, on Mount Scopus in Israel, an extraordinary discovery was made: an 1,800-year-old lead coffin containing a young Roman girl adorned with precious jewelry to ward off the ‘evil eye’ and protecting her in her passage to the afterlife. These forgotten treasures have been rediscovered in storage at the Israel Antiquities Authority and will now be exhibited for the first time.

    Sahir - 10/04/2023 - 18:58

20. Phoenicians: Creating what is now known as the Alphabet

    A-B-C-D-E-F-G ... This famous sequence of letters known to much of the world dates back to the 16th century BC. A fairly small group of traders and merchants known as the Phoenicians created the foundation for the modern English alphabet and other alphabets. They organized a system of 22 consonants into what became the alphabet used not only by English speakers, but by speakers of many of the world's languages.

    ancient-origins - 13/10/2016 - 03:46

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