The shaggy ginger coat is just as bright as it was when the animal wandered over the ice-covered terrain. Its eyes, foot pads and even internal organs are all intact. Yet this is a young woolly mammoth – which lived more than 10,000 years ago. Its perfectly preserved body was discovered in the frozen ground [...]
Washington – A Nasa scientist’s claim that he found tiny fossils of alien life in the remnants of a meteorite has stirred both excitement and scepticism, and is being closely reviewed by 100 experts. Richard Hoover’s paper, along with pictures of the microscopic earthworm-like creatures, were published late on Friday in the peer-reviewedJournal of Cosmology, [...]
Led by Joachim Rittsteig, an expert in Mayan writing, a group of scientists and journalists left Germany Tuesday, on a mission to Guatemala in search of a lost Maya treasure allegedly submerged under Lake Izabal. According to the German newspaper Bild, which sponsored the expedition, the expedition includes two reporters from the publication, a photographer, [...]
Christchurch – Rescuers searching the ruins of Christchurch cathedral made a “miraculous” find beneath a statue of the city’s founder: A time capsule believed to be more than 100 years old. Two items – a glass bottle containing rolled-up parchment and a metal cylinder – were found in the plinth of a statue felled in [...]
It seems as though ancient cannibals had a “waste not, want not” attitude, suggests the discovery of Ice Age cups made from human skulls — what may be the earliest ones known, scientists say. Human skulls have been made into macabre cups and bowls for thousands of years. For instance, in the fifth century B.C., [...]
Little is known about the archaeology of Saudi Arabia, as the government has historically forbid aerial photographs of the landscape and religious sensitivities have made access tricky. But Google Earth is changing that. Satellite images available via the Web-based 3-D map program show that large portions of the country hold a wealth of archaeological remains [...]
Stonehenge is an ancient monument in England that has had my interest for quite some time. The following news article just destroyed the whole mystical essence of the entire thing. Thanks BBC NEWS! Island-based designer and engineer Garry Lavin has set out to revolutionise ideas on how the ancient monument of Stonehenge was built. The [...]

