Category: Ancient

A college student made the discovery of a lifetime on a recent paleontology dіɡ when he ᴜпeагtһed a partial Triceratops ѕkᴜɩɩ. Harrison Duran, a fifth-year biology student at the University of California, Merced, uncovered the 65 million-year-old ѕkᴜɩɩ in the badlands of North Dakota. “I can’t quite express my exсіtemeпt in that moment when we…

A SHIPWRECK holding silver worth £150million has been discovered in the Atlantic – the largest amount of precious metal ever found at sea. A SHIPWRECK holding silver worth £150million has been discovered in the Atlantic – the largest amount of precious metal ever found at sea. About 200 tons of the bullion sank off Ireland…

The sunken city of Pavlopetri is the stuff of myths. Just a dozen feet beneath the sea off the coast of Laconia, Greece, her ruins were thought to have originated from the Mycenaean period, but today are thought to be far older—preceding even the Bronze Age. Aerial view of the sunken city of Pavlopetri in…

Miners in Kolyma posed for photos with the extinct Ice Age beast (Picture: e2w) The last woolly rhinoceroses roamed Earth in Ice Age conditions, hunted by early humans who ate their meat and pictured them in cave drawings. Their heyday was so long ago that we still know little about them, but now a group…

The grave was discovered alongside several smaller burial mounds near Øyesletta, western Norway (Credit: Pen News) A lost ship marking the resting place of an important Viking has been unearthed in the path of a planned highway in Norway. Archaeologist Jani Causevic, from the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research (NIKU), found the ‘incredibly exciting’…

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…