Queen Elizabeth I’s favourite explorer was driven mad searching for the mythic ‘Golden Empire,’ otherwise known as El Dorado. Not many people have the distinction of putting a nonexistent place on the map, but Sir Walter Raleigh was one of…
Archaeological investigations following the opening of a sinkhole in Piazza della Rotonda in front of the Pantheon in Rome have unearthed the ancient pavement of the imperial era. A sinkhole unexpectedly opened up in front of the Pantheon in Rome…
This is the largest piece of the 2,100-year-old Antikythera Mechanism, which is on display at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, Greece. The Histories by Herodotus (484BC to 425BC) offers a remarkable window into the world as it was known to the ancient Greeks…
The remains of the older warrior woman (left) and her husband, which were excavated from the Airagiin Gozgor archaeological site, in the Orkhon province of northern Mongolia. Archaeologists in Mongolia have found the remains of two ancient women warriors, whose…
Combatants wore protective gear that included fencing masks, steel gauntlets and padded jackets called gambesons. Hefty Bronze Age swords are an impressive sight, but scholars have long wondered if these swords were primarily ornamental or if they were used regularly…
UFOlogist Dr. J. Allen Hynek (Aidan Gillen) ponders a UFO sighting during NATO war games, in the Season 2 finale of “Project Blue Book.” When a massive international war-games exercise known as Operation Mainbrace convened in the North Sea in…
Photograph of the Sylt concentration camp taken in 1945. A Nazi concentration camp on one of the British Channel Islands was the site of terrible atrocities that were downplayed in official reports after the end of World War II. Now,…
A closeup of the papyrus showing the Egyptian jackal-headed god Anubis shooting Kephalas with an arrow. Kephalas is depicted nude with an enlarged penis and scrotum. The arrow Anubis shoots is supposed to make Kephalas lustful for a woman named…
Skeletal remains of Homo antecessor — an archaic relative of modern humans — found in Spain. In 1994, archaeologists digging in the Atapuerca Mountains in northern Spain discovered the fossilized remains of an archaic group of humans unlike any other…
The richly decorated sanctuary in the Red Monastery at Sohag in Egypt. Virtual tours of a handful of Egypt’s archaeological marvels — including the ancient Tomb of Queen Meresankh III and the fourth century Red Monastery — are now available.…
The skull fragment of a 2-million-year-old Homo erectus child found in South Africa In an ancient cave in South Africa, paleontologists have found evidence that three of humankind’s oldest known relatives lived in the same place, at the same time.…
Archaeologists examined these rock-cut features under the Church of the Annunciation in Nazareth. The town of Nazareth in modern-day Israel is steeped in mystique, as it is thought to be the place where Jesus was raised. And now, a new…