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On the site of a Roman cemetery in Lincolnshire, archeologists found the remains of 60 human burials. Men, women and children were discovered and a tomb even included a lamb leg for the deceased to take them to the afterlife. Grave goods found by Lincoln-based Allen Archaeology also include pots, bracelets, and bangles. The burials […]

On January 7, 1948, 25-year-old Captain Thomas F. Mantell, a pilot in the Kentucky Air National Guard, died in a plane crash. He was flying his P-51 Mustang around Franklin after being sent out to look for an unidentified aircraft. This event became one of the first incidents of the most publicized UFO-related events in […]

The Ancient Roman equivalent of a roadside service station has been unearthed in Hertfordshire, along with a hoard of artefacts showing it was once a thriving commercial centre. The ‘once in a lifetime discovery’ was made on the site of a planned football pitch at Grange Paddocks leisure centre in Bishop’s Stortford. Like a modern […]

It’s been centuries since the first ancient skeleton of a person with gigantism was found near Rome. But online, some claim similar skeletons were found in the United States as well. A March 22 Facebook post claiming archaeologists dug up human skeletons 7-feet tall with horned skulls in Pennsylvania accrued more than 1,000 shares in […]

Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of 42 humans in a cemetery next to a Peruvian hospital that dates back to the 16th century, when the country first became part of the Spanish empire. The skeletons were found in the courtyard of Hospital Real de San Andres, a former hospital in the centre of Lima, the […]

In 2016, During an excavation of a late Neolithic settlement in Jiaojia – a village in China’s Shandong province, the remains of an unusually tall group of people were found who lived about 5,000 years ago. Given that the human race was never taller than it is today, these ancient “giants” were undoubtedly the harbingers […]

Although Homo sapiens is the sole survivor, several early human species coexisted throughout the human evolution timeline. During the late Miocene epoch, between 5 and 7 million years ago, East Africa looked very different compared to today. Rather than dry deserts, the land that makes up present-day Ethiopia, Chad and Kenya was then densely wooded […]

That’s a record number of skeletons in Bohemia from the High Middle Ages. And, according to lead archaeologist Jan Frolík of the Czech Academy of Sciences Institute of Archaeology, a record for the continent. “The 30 graves, as far as I know, are the largest set in Europe,” he told Prague Daily Monitor. The remains were discovered during repair […]

​Inside Khao Khanap Nam are several magnificent caves with impressive clusters of stalactites and stalagmites. Human skeletons are also found here that are believed to be of the people who made the cave their home in a very distant past. Two large-scale installations by Taiwan creators featuring the skeletons of a giant and a snake […]

  The Palermo catacombs is a huge crypt full of mummified monks, professionals, and children. The child mummies in the Palermo catacombs literally look as if they are asleep in time. Now, 41 of these child mummies are being comprehensively investigated by a team of scientists who aim to understand their lifestyles and the circumstances […]

In ongoing explorations of a necropolis at ʟuxoʀ, archaeologists have opened a new tomb and the findings have been rich. Amongst the 3,500-year-old тʀᴇᴀsuʀᴇs are jewels, sarcophagi, pottery and four mummies, known to be the remains of a goldsmith and his family. Multiple FindsThis is the latest in a series of interesting tombs that archaeologists […]

What did the scans reveal? The world’s first known  pregnant mummy. Who was the Pregnant Mummy? A study on the discovery has been published in the  Journal of Archaeological Science . In it, the researchers write that their X-ray and CT scans of the mummified body show that the woman died when she was between 20-30 years old. They […]