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  1. Brainless Tourists Slaughter 5,000-Year-Old Sacred Scottish Tree

    An ancient and highly-sacred Scottish tree, The Fortingall Yew, located on the Glenlyon Estate in Perthshire, is thought to be between 3,000 - 5,000 years old and possibly the oldest tree in Europe.

    ashley cowie - 28/05/2019 - 22:57

  2. Blythe Intaglios: The Impressive Anthropomorphic Geoglyphs of the Colorado Desert

    ... feet from head to toe.  The Fisherman intaglio depicts a man with a spear, two fish below him, and a sun and serpent ...

    Bryan Hill - 04/05/2015 - 13:56

  3. Fishing Tackle Used to Catch Monster Carp 12,000 Years Ago, Says Study

    A new study in PLOS ONE demonstrates how ancient humans in the Middle East crafted and used sophisticated fishing tackle as early as 10,000 BC. With these fishing tools, they hunted for ancient aquatic monsters including giant carp.

    ashley cowie - 08/10/2021 - 22:47

  4. Ancient Polish Megaliths Versus Open-pit Mine? A Question of Coal Verses Cultural Heritage

    ... from the Neolithic era include Grønsalen on the Isle of Man in Denmark, Brú na Bóinne in Newgrange, Ireland, West ...

    ancient-origins - 18/10/2017 - 01:56

  5. Facial Reconstruction Brings Back to Life the Last Missionary in the Land of the Rising Sun

    ... recreated the pensive face of a European missionary. The man died in Tokyo in 1714 while he was kept in prison for his ...

    Theodoros Karasavvas - 07/12/2016 - 21:49

  6. Komainu Hybrid Lion-Dog Protectors Of Asian Temples And Shrines

    Tattoo art and designs, like virtually everything else in Japanese life, are often based on traditional beliefs or historical events. In fact, some of the most popular Japanese tattoo designs are of mythical creatures, like the komainu. Based on the details of the tattoo itself, mythical creatures can represent more than one meaning. A koi fish, for example, generally represents determination and courage.

    MartiniF - 24/06/2022 - 17:48

  7. New Research suggests recent phonetic decipherment of the Phaistos Disc is implausible

    Last month, Dr Gareth Owens, a researcher at the Technological Educational Institute of Crete, claimed to have cracked the code of the enigmatic Phaistos Disc, a 4,000-year-old artifact containing strange inscriptions found in 1908 in a palace called Phaistos on the island of Crete, but has he really solved the mystery?

    Dilip Rajeev - 18/11/2014 - 10:41

  8. Medmenham Abbey: When the Monks Left Debauchery and the Hellfire Club Moved In

    Medmenham is a village and civil parish located in Wycombe, a district in Buckinghamshire, England. The parish is best-known for its abbey, which was founded during the Middle Ages. As a monastic institution, Medmenham Abbey was of little importance. Its fame (or infamy) was achieved during the 18th century, long after the monks ceased living there. In that century, Medmenham Abbey was transformed into the base of the Hellfire Club.

    dhwty - 14/12/2018 - 22:48

  9. Digging Up Armageddon: The Search for the Lost City of Solomon

    At first glance, one would think that Dr. Eric H. Cline’s Digging Up Armageddon: The Search for the Lost City of Solomon was yet another exhaustive title discussing nothing but the archaeological discoveries unearthed from the ancient site of Tel Meggido, located to the North of Israel. Well, it isn’t.

    pkoutoupis - 10/05/2020 - 01:08

  10. Ancient Greeks Did Not Practice Infanticide Widely, Says Latest Study

    “Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth,” is a law of propaganda often attributed to the Nazi Joseph Goebbels. One such lie has been the notion that Ancient Greeks regularly practiced infanticide by killing off weak babies, the disabled, the lowborn, and the sickly.

    Sahir - 13/12/2021 - 13:59

  11. History wars: archaeologists battle to save our heritage from the nighthawks

    Like grave-robbers, they come at the dead of night, wearing camouflage and dark clothes to avoid detection. Armed with increasingly powerful metal detectors, they work their way across the fields, digging holes wherever they find a target. Landowners wake to find their crops trashed and dotted with holes. Nobody can ever know what they found, as any artefacts are rapidly sold through online auctions or smuggled out of the country. They are called nighthawks – and they are the bane of archaeologists across the country.

    ancient-origins - 19/10/2015 - 04:07

  12. Malta Underground: Religious Legends, Cave Churches and Subterranean Shrines

    Religious visions have frequently taken place in the dark damp setting of caves and subterranean chambers making them attractive locations for shrines, chapels, pilgrimages and healing. One of the most famous of these sites is Lourdes in France, now a major Catholic shrine to the Virgin Mary. What started as a series of visions in the Massabielle grotto by a local girl, has lead to the small Pyrenees town becoming a hugely popular pilgrimage site attracting five million visitors per year to its sanctuary and curative spring waters.

    Laura Tabone - 09/04/2022 - 18:58

  13. World’s Oldest Fortress Discovered in Siberia Challenges Traditional Archaeology

    The world's oldest fortress has been discovered in Siberia, dating to 8,000 years ago. This defensive complex reveals an ancient class structure, and like Göbekli Tepe in Turkey, it challenges traditional views about the lifestyles of hunter-gatherers.

    ashley cowie - 10/12/2023 - 17:42

  14. Gigantic 2,000-Year-Old Geoglyph of an Orca Is One of the Earliest in Peru

    Archaeologists have rediscovered and restored a huge geoglyph of a killer whale, “hiding” in a desert hillside in the isolated Palpa region of southern Peru. Researchers noted that the specific geoglyph had been lost over five decades ago.

    Theodoros Karasavvas - 01/12/2017 - 01:58

  15. The Lost City of Dur-Sharrukin – The Capital That Never Was

    Dur-Sharrukin is an ancient Assyrian city that was founded towards the end of the 8th century BC. The city was established by Sargon II to serve as his new capital. Nevertheless, Sargon died before / shortly after the city was completed. As a result, it was abandoned, and its existence was eventually forgotten.

    dhwty - 07/03/2019 - 14:02

  16. Plato’s Final Resting Place in Athens Revealed!

    The revolutionary scanning and study of the Herculaneum papyri has revealed remarkable new details about the philosopher Plato, including the precise location of his burial. This significant archaeological achievement comes from a project deciphering ancient, carbonized papyri damaged by the Vesuvius eruption in 79 AD.

    Gary Manners - 23/04/2024 - 22:22

  17. Roque Bentayga, Gran Canaria: Vestiges of the Mysterious Guanche People

    Roque Bentayga is a rock formation located on Gran Canaria, an island of the Canary Islands. Many archaeological remains connected to the mysterious Guanche people are found on Roque Bentayga and in its surrounding mountains, revealing the ancient indigenous Canarians way of life. With it’s fascinating history and stunning vista, this site is one of the attractions on Gran Canaria; though it is not as well-known as another of the island’s rock formation, Roque Nublo.

    dhwty - 08/04/2019 - 14:00

  18. NASA book explores how archaeology could contribute to understanding Extra-terrestrial Communication

    A new book released by NASA as part of the official NASA History Series examines the contributions that archaeology and anthropology can make to contemporary SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) research.  The authors draw analogies between deciphering the language and symbology of long-lost civilizations and decoding messages that may arrive from ‘other worldly’ origins.

    aprilholloway - 22/05/2014 - 03:08

  19. 1,500-Year-Old Tomb Found in China with Incredible Golden Jewelry

    A 1,500-year-old tomb unearthed in China was found to contain spectacular golden jewelry inlaid with gemstones and amethysts and a 5,000 bead necklace.  A number of burials from the Northern Wei Dynasty, which this tomb belongs to, have yielded beautiful gold earrings, but experts have said the earrings discovered in this tomb are the most exquisite to have been found from this time period.  

    aprilholloway - 17/08/2016 - 21:50

  20. Cadmus: The Amazing Tale of the First Greek Hero and It’s Horrible End

    ... reign over Thebes was a prosperous one. As an older man Cadmus entrusted the rule of Thebes to his favorite ...

    Jake Leigh-Howarth - 10/08/2022 - 18:58

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