Today is Tax day in the United States, and people are scrambling to file their returns before the April 15 midnight deadline. While this is never fun, people can take solace in a new finding: A recently translated ancient Egyptian… Continue Reading
The “Midnight Terror Cave” is located to the south of Belmopan near the Mennonite community of Springfield in the Cayo District of Belize. It is an extensive subterranean complex that archaeologists theorize was used for a variety of ritual purposes… Continue Reading
Dating is an integral part of archaeology, however it’s expensive, inconvenient, and it takes weeks to get the information from the lab. Not anymore, a portable C-14 has been created for use in the field. http://digventures.com/2015/04/06/portable-carbon-dating-device-to-be-ready-by-2016/
Standing two metres tall, the giant deer was assumed to be extinct about 10,300 years ago, but new research finds it was still alive across Siberia. It had been previously thought that this animal, also known as the Irish Elk… Continue Reading
The tale of our creation we know from the Bible is only half the story—one which has been heavily edited. But have you ever wondered how god created male and female in his image? There are other sources that give… Continue Reading
Named after the crocodile God Sobek, Sobeknefru, whose name means ‘she who shows the beauty of Sobek’, succeeded her brother to the throne of Egypt. At the time she came to power, the cult of Sobek had prominence in Egyptian… Continue Reading
Sumer, or the ‘land of civilized kings’, flourished in Mesopotamia, now modern-day Iraq, around 4500 BC. Sumerians created an advanced civilization with its own system of elaborate language and writing, architecture and arts, astronomy and mathematics. Their religious system was… Continue Reading
Replica shows visage of 16 year old fighter buried with her weapons and horses. Is this the face of an ancient Amazon female warrior? Her remains – unearthed in the Altai Mountains – suggest likenesses to the fabled all-female virgin… Continue Reading
Israeli archaeologists from the University of Haifa have uncovered an enormous bronze mask of Pan (Faunus, Satyr) – the Greek/Roman god of the woods, shepherds, and fertility – at the archaeological site of Hippos-Sussita, located on a hill overlooking the… Continue Reading
Krapina Neanderthals may have manipulated white-tailed eagle talons to make jewelry 130,000 years ago, before the appearance of modern human in Europe, according to a study* published March 11, 2015 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by David Frayer from… Continue Reading