Sacsayhuamán fortress was the largest structure built by the Incas. In order to create such smooth megaliths, the Incas only used harder stones and bronze tools. They also used ropes, …

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These golden twin bracelets belong to King Shoshenq II were found, with another identical five bracelets, around the wrists of the king.

Alien-looking fossils from 280 million years ago.

Research teams in South America have found many gigantic burrows that are so massive and neatly constructed that you’d be forgiven for thinking humans dug them as a passageway through the forest.

A copper dome, originally believed to be an oversized cooking cauldron, has ignited excitement in the maritime archaeology community as it may well be the remains of a 17th-century primitive submarine, possibly one of the earliest ever discovered.

The second trailer of The Mummy was released on April 2, quenching the thirst for information about Universal’s notable project after nearly 3 months of only appearing sporadically in the newspapers.

(Courtesy of Carmen Nuñez Lahuerta via University of Zaragoza)

 – for several days we had light to no rain, coming only for short periods in the afternoon, but then we really got RAIN!!! For about 4 hours straight we had consistent downpours.

PostedJanuary 21, 2024

This baked clay statuette depicts the god Osiris naked, wears a tripartite wig and a divine beard. The penis and testicles are shaped separately and inserted into an oval recess. The black stone pupils are placed in a white stucco eyeball. The eye framing and eyebrows are inlaid sheet gold. Within the mummy case were…

In 2004, archaeologists excavating the Gallic and Gallo-Roman sancturary of Tintignac in the south central French region of Corrèze discovered a deposit of metal parts that had been ritually destroyed and buried in the first or second century B.C. Similar discoveries have been made at other Gaulish sites, but this find was unusual for its size – more than 500 artifacts or fragments thereof were packed into a pit just over four feet square and one foot deep — and for its contents. Among the deliberately hammered and bent objects were weapons like shields, swords and nine helmets, eight bronze and one iron. One of the bronze helmets was of a design never seen before or since: a swan whose gracefully curved neck forms a frontal horn then bends back to the neck guard which is shaped like the tail of the bird.

A prehistoric “time capsule” containing preserved woodland and insect remains has been found in peatland on the Holnicote estate in Exmoor, England. The discovery was …

Intentionally erased from history until the 19th century, Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten established the first known monotheistic religion called Atenism, which was rediscovered in the late 18th century and integrated by 19th and 20th century religious philosophers into the histories of the three Abrahamic religions.

Ramesses II, or Ramesses the Great, is one of the most famous figures in the history of Ancient Egypt.

In recent years, a silver-decorated axe has regularly appeared on internet forums, bearing a label saying it as a “A 1000 year old Viking axe” or a “Viking

The Maya believed that carved stone monuments, painted walls, and woven textiles were far more than mere decoration. They were living objects, each bearing a

The internationally-renowned Bronze-Age Uffington White Horse in Oxford can be seen for miles away.

The domed roundhouse in Castle Cary, Somerset was built in 1779 to house the town’s drunks and criminals before they faced the district judge.

The Ibero-Roman oppidum of Castulo near Linares in Jaen province, Andalucia, Spain was one of the major Iberian cities in the Iberian Peninsula Bronze handle …