Category: Ancient

A campaign has been launched to ensure a 1,000-year-old Viking hoard found buried in a Dumfries and Galloway field stays in the local area. The objects were found inside a pot unearthed in 2014 and include rare items such as a gold bird-shaped pin, an enamelled Christian cross and silk from modern-day Istanbul as well…

Liu Fei, ruler of Jiangdu Kingdom, was left with every comfort for the afterlife The tomb was discovered in Jiangsu province (Chinese Archaeology) A 2,100 year-old tomb built for a Chinese king has been excavated to reveal more than 10,000 pieces of treasure. Archaeologists believe the mausoleum was for Liu Fei, who died in 128BC…

Archaeologists believe the coffin may belong to Prince Gao, one of the sons of China’s first emperor Qin Shi Huang. maximimages.com / AlamyThe Terracotta Army was created to protect China’s first emperor, Qin Shi Huang, in the afterlife. Archaeologists have unearthed a treasure-filled tomb guarded by the Terracotta Army that may belong to the son…

A Northern California couple out walking their dog in February 2013 on their Gold Country property stumbled across a modern-day bonanza: $10million in rare, mint-condition gold coins buried in the shadow of an old tree. Nearly all of the 1,427 coins, dating from 1847 to 1894, are in uncirculated, mint condition, said David Hall, co-founder…

Gold plates are among the valuable items unearthed at the tomb of a Chinese emperor who died thousands of years ago. Archaeologists digging at the royal tombs of the Marquis of Haihun State of the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 24) uncovered large quantities of gold over the festive period. The cemetery, which contains eight tombs…

A new analysis of ancient treasures uncovered in Spain has revealed some of the artifacts were made with ‘alien metals’ 3,000 years ago. Scientists conducted a new analysis of the Treasure of Villena, a hoard of 59 gold-plated objects found in 1963, finding two objects featured meteoric iron. Meteoric iron is an early-universe protoplanetary disk remnant…

Recently, the online community has been “Ьᴜzzіпɡ” about a “2000-year-old” temple located at the Ьottom of the sea in Bali, unaware that this sacred site serves a completely different purpose. Images of a temple ѕᴜЬmeгɡed in the ocean off Bali’s coast have fascinated many netizens, leading to widespread sharing on ѕoсіаɩ medіа. However, few realize…

A maze of white temples, memorial arches, paved roads, and houses… hidden 130 feet underwater: this is China’s real-life Atlantis. The so-called Lion City, tucked in a lake between the Five Lion Mountain, was once Shi Cheng – the centre of politics and economics in the eastern province of Zhejiang. Metropolis: Shi Cheng, dubbed Lion…

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An іпсгedіЬɩe Ьгeаktһгoᴜɡһ in paleontology has unfolded on the Isle of Skye in Scotland, where an international team of paleontologists from the University of Edinburgh, Staffin Museum, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences has unveiled a new dinosaur tracksite at Ruƅha naм Brathairean (Brothers’ Point). The site, dating back approximately 170 million years to the…