Archaeology

Stonehenge is interesting, though any mystical (or downright alien) symbolism is lost when you visit much larger sites, like Avebury Henge, that are clearly not mystical at all. Because of its fame,…

The Dropa Stones are puzzling artifact #2 on the 10 Most Puzzling Ancient Artifacts list. These are “The” Dropa Stone images. What are the Dropa Stones? The Story of how the…

I’ve seen this article several times now, and I meant to address it the first time, but then I got distracted by something shiny…er I mean work? Either way, the biggest reason I let it go…

The coolest stuff regarding ancient religious history is not found in the Vatican or western Europe at all, it's in the East where a lot less modern growth took place.  There is more stuff that…

The remains of newborn twin girls have been found in the archaeological site of Sant Miquel d'Olèrdola in Catalonia and it is expected that they belong to two girls between 38 and 40 weeks of…

Ancient sunken ships are generally found in shallow water 100 or so, but two Roman-era shipwrecks have been found almost a mile deep in waters off the islands of Corfu and Paxoi, the Ionian Sea…

During the Middle Palaeolithic, between 127,000 and 40,000 years ago, humans that lived along the banks of the river Manzanares (now Madrid, Spain) ate pachyderm meat and bone marrow, according…

The Trefael Stone is an ancient monument in south-west Wales.  The stone bears multiple cupmarks, circular holes gouged into its surface associated with ritual burial activity in the Neolithic…

Swiss Army Jewelry? The recent discovery of a pendant at the Irikaitz archaeological site in Zestoa in the Basque province of Gipuzkoa may be as old as 25,000 years, which would make it the oldest on…

A prehistoric bronze artifact made from a cast has been found in Alaska, apparently a buckle. There was no Bronze Age in Alaska, though it existed several thousand years earlier in Europe and Asia.…