Faces of Sanxingdui’: Bronze Age relics shed light on mysterious ancient kingdom.
A golden face with patinaed turquoise eyes stares out of the darkness. Illuminated around it stand three other bronze heads — some have flat tops, others round…
San Francisco’s Foundation is Built on Old Ships from the Mid-1800s
In 1994, construction workers in San Francisco’s financial district began digging to build a new light-rail tunnel beneath the city when they hit something. It was a…
This is the Oldest Musical Instrument in the World
New Paleolithic musical evidence was discovered during the summer 2008 excavations at the Hohle Fels and Vogelherd sites in the form of one virtually complete bone flute’s…
Body of 6,500-year-old baby goes on show in world’s biggest mummy exhibition
More than 6,500 years ago in Peru, this tiny baby’s brief battle for life finally came to an end. The child, no more than 10 months old,…
Human-headed winged bull (lamᴀssu)
From the ninth to the seventh century B.C., the kings of ᴀssyria ruled over a vast empire centered in northern Iraq. The great ᴀssyrian king Ashurnasirpal II…
How does the ‘Antikythera Mechanism’ work?
The Antikythera mechanism is an ancient Greek hand-powered orrery, described as the oldest example of an analogue computer used to predict astronomical positions and eclipses decades in…
The “Baghdad Battery” is a 2000 year old artefact found in 1936.
Longstanding beliefs about ancient technological and medical knowledge were placed under scrutiny when Paul T. Keyser’s published an article in the 1990s challenging the conventional narrative of…
Unearthing Secrets: The Remarkable Discovery of a 3,500-Year-Old Waterlogged Tomb in Egypt
Archaeologists working in Upper Egypt have uncovered an extraordinary 3,500-year-old burial site at the ancient quarry of Gebel el-Silsila. Dubbed the “watery tomb,” this site lies approximately…
Argos, one of the most ancient cities in Europe, has been continuously inhabited for over 7,000 years.
Argos is one of the oldest cities in mainland Europe but also a modern city with attractions and places that interest every visitor. The reason for this…
The Ladby Ship: A Viking King’s Journey to Eternity
Unearthing Denmark’s Maritime Legacy In the annals of Viking history, few discoveries rival the magnificence of the Ladby Ship. Nestled along Denmark’s picturesque coastline, this 22-meter long vessel…