Tagged: archeology

– Over 2,000 years ago ancient people constructed hundreds of large, mysterious earthworks that are still little understood. The true purpose of the ancient earthworks remains unsolved puzzle for now. Archaeologists don’t think the earthworks were part of some villages because very few artifacts have...

– Nearly 40 graves of men, women and children buried at the ancient graveyard, at the Norre Sandegard Vest site, Danish island of Bornholm. The discovery was made by joint Polish-Danish excavation team working at the site since 2014. This burial ground, dated to between...

– A rare, charming moon-faced clay doll from the mid-Yayoi Pottery Culture period (300 B.C.-A.D. 300) has been unearthed at Osaka ruins in Japan. The ancient doll is in almost perfection condition and was unearthed during excavations at the Kori and Heka ruins. The carefully...

– It’s a truly extraordinary discovery. Archaeologists are even slightly shocked. They have found traces of a 1,300-year-old Viking tower. It has long been believed Vikings never constructed towers, but this assumption was wrong. The purpose of the tower is unknown. It was raised by...

– Paleontologists have discovered fossils of an ancient lizard that lived at Egg Mountain, Montana, North America about 75 million years ago. To find a new species of lizard from the late dinosaur era, whose closest relatives roamed in faraway Asia, does not happen often....

– Ancient Southwestern Pueblo people had no written language or written number system and yet they used advanced geometry to build sophisticated structures. Naturally, it’s difficult to construct several complicated geometrical shapes you aren’t allowed to write down any numbers or notes as you do...

Research team working in Ceibal-Petexbatun Archaeological Project and led by Takeshi Inomata of the University of Arizona, have studied both collapses of Maya civilization at Guatemala’s Maya site of Ceibal. The ancient site was occupied for about 2,000 years, between approximately 1000 BC and 950...

Polish archaeological research team has spent many years in Burkina Faso, situated in West Africa, north of Ghana. During October – November last year, researchers excavated some areas inhabited by the Kurumba people, who settled in the north of Burkina Faso, a few centuries ago...

The 600-year old Buddha statue which has been submerged for years, has appeared during a drop in water levels. A 600-year old Buddha statue has emerged from under the surface of a water reservoir in China. The recent renovation work in Jiangxi Province at east...

A pair of 1,900-year-old leather shoes discovered during archaeological excavations in the Sliven District, in Eastern Bulgaria is on display for the first time after a longer period of restoration. The female shoes, which are considered rather well-preserved, belonged once to a woman who lived...