Two thousand years ago, a young man was buried in the royal mausoleum next to a huge and brightly festooned Moche pyramid, now known as the Huaca Rajada, at the site of Sipán. Studies have been conducted on this latest discovery that have determined his age at moment of death to be just 21, making […]

Archaeologists digging up a car park in Staffordshire have unearthed 17th-century witch bottle used to fight evil spirits close to a former pub in England. Experts say that previously the so-called cursed people often filled such bottles with bent toenails and fingernails, urine, and hair to keep evil spirits away.However, the x-ray of the newly […]

The latest discovery of pre-historic tools and remains of hominids in Malawi’s isolated northern district of Karonga gives further proof that the area could be the cradle of humankind, a chief German researcher said.Professor Friedemann Schrenk of the Goethe University in Frankfurt informed Reuters that two students working on the excavation site last month had […]

Many primitive Australian aboriginals could have outrun world 100 and 200 meters record holder Usain Bolt in modern conditions. Some Tutsi men in Rwanda surpassed the current world high jump record of 2.45 meters throughout initiation ceremonies in which they had to jump at least their own height for the development of manhood. Ex-bodybuilder and […]

Archaeologists have revealed fragments of a 2,000-year- old bronze Roman equestrian statue of Emperor Augustus in a stream near Giessen, the Hessian state science ministry has announced. “There has never been a find of such quality and preservation in Germany,” a statement from the ministry said, adding up that it was a “sensational” discovery. On […]