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Some of the skeletons found in an ancient graveyard on Anglesey date back to the 4th Century, experts have said. Tests showed some of the people buried up to 1,600 years ago were from Scandinaviaand the Mediterranean [Credit: Archaeology Wales] Wales Archaeology, which led the college dig, found the remains of 34 individuals. Some had […]

The Crete local was trying to park his vehicle when he accidentally unearthed the ancient Minoan grave. Sometime between 1400 and 1200 B.C., two Minoan men were laid to rest in an underground enclosure carved out of the soft limestone native to southeast Crete. Both were entombed within larnakes—intricately embossed clay coffins popular in Bronze […]

The lost history of a sacred Scottish “healing island” has revealed its holy secrets in the skeletal dna of sick children, archaeologists in Edinburgh have announced. This string of majestical islands in Scotland’s Firth of Forth have been in habited since the Bronze Age and have a rich tradition of “healing,” incorporating “plague-carrying bodies” on […]

Scientists this week opened the mummified child’s remains cocooned in birch bark and copper which – combined with the permafrost – produced an accidental mummification. The child – seen here in these remarkable pictures for the first time – appears to be from a higher social strata than previous remains unearthed at the site, the […]

The Kap Dwa story, the two-headed Giant with two heads, is undoubtedly one of the most fascinating stories you will hear. Although the 3.5-meter tall Giant was discovered in Patagonia, there are still many questions. According to local legends, a two-headed ogre was attacked by Spanish sailors in 1673. They were able to overcome the […]

This ancient sarcophagus made of black granite was found in Alexandria, Egypt. It dates back to the Ptolemaic period which lasted from 305 BC to 30 BC and it was officially discovered by none other than the general secretary of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, Dr. Mostafa Waziri himself. You can see that this 8.7-foot-long […]

Russia’s secret UFO files: Soviet Union waged Cold War conflict with aliens WHILE the Cold War waged, the Soviet Union was being menaced by mysterious alien spacecraft which shot down planes and burned military installations. During the 1940s and 1950s UFO-mania gripped the US as reports of flying saucers, men in black and alien abductions […]

Croatian archaeologists have unearthed a necropolis with the remains of 32 people — some buried in ceramic jars — dating back to the late 4th/early 5th century AD. Researchers unearthed the remains in the front grounds of Radošević Palace, a 17th century baroque-style structure on the island of Hvar, off of the Dalmatian coast. The […]

Archaeologists in Egypt have unlocked the secrets of a mysterious ancient ‘cursed’ black granite sarcophagus. The massive coffin, which was recently excavated in the city of Alexandria, was found to contain three skeletons and gold sheets with the remains. The tomb dates back to the Ptolemaic period between 305 B.C. and 30 B.C. In a […]

The severed, unwrapped head — which is at least 2,000 years old — is thought to have been brought from Egypt to the UK as a souvenir in the 19th century. At some point, it was placed in a glass case and relegated to a loft in Ramsgate — only to be rediscovered after its […]

The Valley of the Kings was a mass burial ground for the pharaohs. Some of the country’s greatest rulers were deposited there: Tutankhamun, Seti I, Ramses II, as well as queens, high priests and other elites of the 18th, 19th and 20th dynasties. There are over 60 tombs in the valley. They vary from small […]

In the early 20th century, chance led us to the gate of the underground town of the most prominent giants of that period. This was an unprecedented find in the Grand Canyon, which soon repeated in the press. The Grand Canyon was the birthplace of a culture in which, according to an article published in […]