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06/05/2020 / By Michael Alexander

Elongated skulls unearthed in ancient Chinese tombs may indicate social status, researchers say… is there another explanation?

Human skeletons unearthed in northeast China represent some of the earliest evidence of intentional skull reshaping, says a recent study in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology. Between 2011 and 2015, the dig at the Houtaomuga site yielded 11 modified skulls and 14 skeletons with unmodified craniums. The former, in particular, had artificially elongated braincases and flattened bones […]

03/28/2020 / By JD Heyes

China now trying to rewrite world history by claiming the Wuhan coronavirus never originated in China

As the world is just beginning to deal with the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19), China is already hard at work attempting to memory-hole the fact that it originated there. And wouldn’t you know it, the Chinese government propagandists has learned their lessons from the American Left. Why wouldn’t they? One of their party’s leading contenders, Bernie […]

03/21/2020 / By Franz Walker

Scientists crack the code on the mystery of Stonehenge’s creation: They might have used lard

How ancient Britons built Stonehenge has remained a mystery for the longest time. A new analysis, however, claims to have found the mystery material that enabled these ancient people to build the stone monolith – lard. Archaeologists from Newcastle University propose that ancient builders used pig fat during the construction of Stonehenge. According to the archaeologists, […]

03/07/2020 / By Arsenio Toledo

Prehistoric site described as “real-life Atlantis” – experts in a race against time to retrieve treasures before it disappears again

In the site known as Ala-Tei in the Tuva Republic, in Russia, scientists are racing against time to retrieve dozens of treasures from over 110 burial sites — all of which are thousands of years old. The Tuva Republic, one of the federal subjects of the Russian Federation, sits in the so-called Sayan Sea, an artificial reservoir created when the Sayano-Shushenskaya […]

02/23/2020 / By Arsenio Toledo

10,000 year old “weapons factory” discovered by archeologists alongside remains of a wooly mammoth, whose tusks were used as raw materials

Paleontologists working on the island of Kotelny, a now-uninhabited Siberian island administered by Russia and located within the Arctic circle, have discovered a “weapons factory” where early humans took shards of mammoth tusks and sharpened them into knives and spears. Not only that, but this “weapons factory” was discovered right beside the remains of a felled […]

01/25/2020 / By Michael Alexander

Strange ring-shaped objects made from cereal and found in a Bronze Age dig site could have been used in ancient rituals, researchers find

While ancient agricultural practices are well-documented in the archaeological record, the same can’t be said for food preparation and production. This can be attributed to the relative rarity of extensive texts on the subject — best exemplified by the classical text “De re coquinaria” (On The Subject of Cooking), which has been attributed to the […]

12/22/2019 / By Grace Olson

Archaeologists unearth 2 trophy SKULLS in Belize jungles: Macabre artifacts will be used to study the collapse of the Maya civilization

The Maya civilization was one of the most powerful and scientifically advanced empires of the ancient world. However, by the end of the ninth century, the busy streets of its great stone cities were abandoned, signaling its collapse — an event that, since the 19th century, has intrigued and confused scholars. A recent discovery in […]

11/10/2019 / By Edsel Cook

Scientists successfully brew beer and mead using 5,000-year-old “resurrected” yeasts discovered in the Holy Land

Want to know what ancient Middle Eastern beer tastes like? Try asking this team of researchers from Israel: In a study published in mBio, microbiologists and archeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority and four local universities used yeast strains that lay dormant for thousands of years to brew potable “ancient beers.” For the multi-layered study, researchers isolated yeast from tiny […]

10/16/2019 / By Edsel Cook

Archaeologists discover COCAINE and other psychotropics in the 1,000-year-old belongings of a South American shaman

Early shamans who lived a thousand years ago used cocaine and other mind-altering substances for their rituals, according to a recent study. In their report, researchers have uncovered evidence that suggests that Native American mystics took the drug, as well as several plant-based psychotropics, to alter their consciousness. This comes after a recent investigation of the dry rock shelters […]

08/31/2019 / By Edsel Cook

Fascinating spy plane photos from the 1950s and 60s reveal hidden archaeological spots in Aleppo, Jordan and Nimrud

The still-raging Syrian Civil War wrecked much of the ancient city of Aleppo. However, it lives on in declassified photographs taken by American spy planes during the early decades of the Cold War. The CIA recently released black-and-white images taken by a U-2 recon aircraft that flew over Middle Eastern countries during the 1950s and 1960s. In […]

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