Vindolanda: The Roman Outpost of Hadrian’s Wall Reviewed
Sitting proudly on the line of Hadrian’s Wall in northern England, just south of the Scottish border, the Roman fort of Vindolanda has dominated the landscape for nearly 2,000…
25 Incredible Tutankhamun Tomb Treasures You May Not Have Seen
Thanks to Howard Carter’s discovery of King Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922, there is no Pharaoh more well-known and well-loved than King Tut, the boy king , who died in 1323 BC…
The Stonehenge Circle’s Predecessor, the World’s Oldest Known Temple, Offers a Different Perspective on the People Who Lived During That Period.
Göbekli Tepe, the world’s earliest-known temple, was built around 11 500 years ago, when woolly mammoths still roamed the Earth, and Britain wasn’t yet an island. Excavations on Göbekli…
Solving the Mysteries of Buddhist Cave Temple Writing
Researchers have successfully dated a set of mysterious phrases discovered on the ceiling of a Tibetan tantric Buddhist cave temple in China. The Mogao Caves are located…
Mysterious Shipwrecks in Sweden Discovered to be Full with Medieval Household Items
When underwater archaeologists discovered the sunken ruins of two medieval-era ships in Sweden’s Baltic Sea coastal waters last spring, they knew it would take some time to…
Not a huge carpet, but the largest mosaic ever discovered was in Turkey instead.
The Antakya Museum Hotel in Turkey is today of great archaeological importance. During its construction, workers discovered a 2,000-year-old mosaic that extends over 9,000-square-foot (about 850 square…
Knights Templar “Treasure Tunnels” Found Under an Israeli City
Archeologists have uncovered a new network of hidden tunnels buried beneath the city of Acre in Israel, believed to have been built by the Knights Templar as…
Just a short distance away from the largest mirror in the world is this fascinating train cemetery.
The largest salt flat in the world also holds one of the largest collection of abandoned trains from a different era. Right next to the largest salt…
Relics of Egypt’s storied past: The Ten Important Ancient Egyptian Cities
The various civilizations which developed within ancient Egypt were some of the most technologically advanced and beautiful of their time, giving birth to some of the greatest…
While renovating his home, a man discovers a treasure from the fourteenth century.
When a Spanish man decided to make an overhaul of his house, it ended in a once-in-a-lifetime discovery. Juan Francisco León in front of a part of…