June 24, 2016 Skeletons found in a shop near the Porto Ercolano at Pompeii. The find was recently announced by the Archaeological Superintendency of Pompeii. (Image credit: Soprintendenza Pompei) Although the impressive nature of Pompeii has been known for centuries, archaeologists are still excavating parts of it, and more of the city – as well […]
World famous Ottoman cartographer Piri Reis’ 500-year-old map, apart from accurately exploring the northern coast of Antarctica, provides mind-boggling information about 2000 important ports and cities of the Mediterranean Sea, the western coasts of Europe and North Africa and the eastern coast of South America. The Piri Reis map was compiled in 1513 and when […]
New fossil discoveries continue to push the known boundaries of human evolution An ancient species of human from China, thought to be long extinct, likely survived until at least the last Ice Age 14,000 years ago, new research finds. Since the timeframe of these so-called Red Deer Cave people, as well as Homo floresiensis (aka […]
Although many are reluctant to accept it, there are a number of anomalies that show us clearly that something disturbing happened in the past, that we have actually no idea what happened on Earth thousands of ears ago, yet the answers seem to be right in front of us. Some consider these findings as being […]
The trireme “Olympias,” a modern replica. (Wikimedia Commons) Archaeologists have discovered massive naval bases that once enabled Athens to fight off the Persian Empire—and develop the world’s first democracy. Among the recent finds at the Port of Piraeus, Greece’s biggest seaport, are ship-sheds that held hundreds of warships known as triremes, the Smithsonian reports...
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