New Barrier Reef Find Proves Australians Didn’t Learn Pottery from Europe
A new discovery off the northwestern coast of Australia has rewritten the history books. Up until now the academic consensus was that pottery was introduced to Australia by Europeans. This has now been proven wrong. This new find shows us that Australians …
Prehistoric Irish Monuments Revealed As ‘Pathways for the Dead’
Updated 26 April, 2024 – 01:01 ancient-origins Archaeologists using advanced LiDAR technology have unearthed a significant discovery at Baltinglass in County Wicklow, Ireland, known as the “Hillfort Capital” of the region. This cutting-edge survey has …
How Arabian Script Infiltrated the Runes of Ancient Germany
Arabian archers in the Roman army had a surprising impact on the evolution of writing in ancient Germany at the dawn of our Common Era (AD). The old Germanic alphabet, known as runes – bolstered with letters from the language of the Arabian Nabateans …
Hallucinogens Found In Ancient Yucatán Ball Courts Betray Maya Offerings
New research has shed light on the rituals surrounding the construction of a ballcourt in the ancient Maya city of Yaxnohcah. A collecting of botanicals, subjected to environmental DNA analysis, has led to the unveiling of the remnants of a ceremonial …
These epics lie at the beginning of the Western canon of literature, and have had an enormous influence on the history of literature. Whether and when Homer lived is unknown.
In Western classical tradition, Homer is the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, and is revered as the greatest of ancient Greek epic poets. These epics…
Creepy evidence of Stone Age sacrificial rituals in Europe
Through research at 14 Stone Age sites in Europe, archaeologists found evidence of grisly ancient sacrificial rituals. Among them, an ancient tomb in Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux near Avignon, southern France contains grain and remains of…
The boy picked up a black coal, the expert tested it for 10 years before concluding: This is the only treasure in the world
In 1981, in Shaanxi province (China), a boy picked up a “strange” treasure and immediately brought it to the Shaanxi historical museum. It was not until 10 years later that the secrets of this treasure were revealed. The boy picked up a “lump of coal” and brought it to the museum. In November 1981, …
Digging into a quarry, you find something more precious than gold: the “home” of the oldest creature on Earth
Marble Bar, a landmark associated with quartz mines in Australia, has provided the scientific community with a unique stone slab: containing 3.5 billion-year-old primitive organic molecules, the source of life for living things. Earth's most primitive objects. Close-up of the precious stone…
9 archaeological discoveries are “on the right track” with science, but no one has yet been able to explain them
Earth was born 4.5 billion years ago. With such a long history, there are many mysteries in the past that we still cannot find. Unexplained archaeological discoveries 1. Giant bird mummy 2. Saksaywaman Temple, Peru 3. Sun Gate, …
Which Religion Is the Oldest?
Adherents hold that Hinduism —one of the principal faiths in the modern world, with about one billion followers—is the world’s oldest religion, with complete scriptural texts dating back 3,000 years. The oral tradition that gave rise to the Mahabharata …