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Valencina, the Great Prehistoric City Contemporary with Stonehenge That Flourished and Collapsed Five Thousand Years Ago
Just a few kilometers from Seville lies the archaeological site of Valencina de la Concepción, which five thousand years ago ...
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The Earth’s Core May Be Leaking: Traces of Precious Metals Found in Hawaiian Volcanic Rocks
The world’s largest gold reserves—approximately 99.999% of all the gold on Earth—are at an unreachable depth beneath more ...
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Identity of the Owner of Luxor’s Nameless Tomb Discovered
In the 1970s, a tomb was discovered in the Al-Asasif necropolis on the west bank of Luxor, Egypt, which archaeologists ...
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A Vast Merovingian Cemetery Used for Over Seven Centuries Found at the Site Where Chilperic I Was Assassinated
In Noisy-le-Grand, about 15 kilometers east of Paris, lies one of the most extensive and best-preserved Merovingian-era medieval cemeteries in Île-de-France, the necropolis of Les Mastraits. Its first ...
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Executive Order 6102: How Roosevelt Forced Citizens to Hand Over Their Gold to the State
U.S. gold coins known as double eagle. Their minting was completed in 1933. Credit: Portable Antiquities Scheme / Wikimedia Commons In 1933, a document circulated throughout the United States in the ...
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The Tomb of Amphipolis built by Alexander the Great for Hephaestion was found to be aligned with the winter solstice
View of the Amphipolis tomb with the recovered elements spread out on the southwest side, ready to be placed. Credit: Ministry of Culture of Greece From the time of its discovery, there had been ...
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Peoples of Northeastern Iberian Peninsula Refused to Adopt Greek Techniques for Producing Bronze 4,000 Years Ago
A study led by Julia Montes-Landa and an international team of archaeologists, published in the Journal of Archaeological Science, analyzed bronze production techniques, an alloy of copper (Cu) and ...
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The longest prehistoric journey undertaken by humans lasted thousands of years and spanned several generations
The greatest journey in human history was not made in a row, or perhaps it was. Credit: Google Gemini / labrujulaverde.com An international team of scientists has managed to reconstruct the longest ...
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Small objects from 3300 years ago had only been found in the wreck of the Uluburun, now also in a tomb in Cyprus
Chamber Tombs VV, XX, YY, ZZ, and AB East and West during excavation, the artifacts are in the circle. Credit: Peter M. Fischer and Rainer Feldbacher / Lucia Avial Chicharro Archaeologists found five ...
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30 Vessels from the Urnfield Culture Discovered Beneath a Road in Germany
One of the urns found. Credit: Archäologisches Museum Hamburg (AMH) Archaeological excavations carried out during the construction of a drainage channel on the K17 road connecting the towns of ...
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Ancient Marble Sculpture Workshop from the Hellenistic Period Discovered on the Island of Paros, with Numerous Unfinished Statues
Remains of the sculpture workshop found in Paros. Credit: Greek Ministry of Culture Archaeologists have been excavating at the site of Floga in Paroikía, on the Cycladic island of Paros in Greece, ...
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Archaeopteryx, the Fossil That Explains Why All Birds Are Dinosaurs and Can Fly
Archaeopteryx is the fossil that proved Darwin right. It is the oldest known fossil bird and helps demonstrate that all birds, including modern ones, are dinosaurs. Although the first fossil of this ...