Read more about the article Fury After Archaeologists Paint Ancient Engravings For Selfies
Historian Otoni Mesquita poses with ancient rock engraving painted with clay in Manaus, Brazil, undated. He stated that he used natural clay and apologized in a statement. (CEN)

Fury After Archaeologists Paint Ancient Engravings For Selfies

Archaeology experts who painted over 2,000-year-old Amazonian tribal rock carvings for birthday selfies have been censured by antiquities officials in Brazil. The academics, named in local media as Professor Gisella…

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Read more about the article Hundreds Of Pieces Of Priceless Ming Dynasty Porcelain Discovered In Ancient Chinese Shipwreck
Photo shows some of the relics discovered in two ancient shipwrecks found at a depth of over 1,000 meters in the South China Sea southeast of Sanya, Hainan, China, undated. Nearly 580 pieces of porcelain, pottery, and logs were extracted. (State Administration of Cultural Heritage/AsiaWire)

Hundreds Of Pieces Of Priceless Ming Dynasty Porcelain Discovered In Ancient Chinese Shipwreck

Archaeologists in China have unearthed hundreds of priceless Ming Dynasty porcelain dating back hundreds of years and other priceless relics from an ancient shipwreck site at the bottom of the…

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Read more about the article Viking Kings Had Glass Windows Long Before Medieval Churches
Photo shows Mads Dengso Jessen, Senior Researcher at the National Museum of Denmark, with a piece of window glass fragment from the Viking Age, undated. New research has revealed that the Vikings had windows with glass panes. (ohn Fhaer Engedal Nissen, The National Museum of Denmark/Newsflash)

Viking Kings Had Glass Windows Long Before Medieval Churches

Viking kings and nobles were among the first in history to put glass into the windows of their timber-framed longhouses, archaeologists have discovered. Early glass windows are usually associated with…

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Read more about the article 5,000-Year-Old Wine In Ancient Queen’s Tomb Shows She Could Be Egypt’s First Pharaoh
Photo shows the tomb complex of Queen Meret-Neith in Abydos during excavation. The queen's burial chamber is located in the center of the complex and is surrounded by the side graves of the courtiers and servants. (EC Kohler/Newsflash)

5,000-Year-Old Wine In Ancient Queen’s Tomb Shows She Could Be Egypt’s First Pharaoh

Secrets of Egypt's first-ever female pharaoh have been unearthed after archaeologists unlocked hidden treasures of her ancient royal grave. The status of Queen Meret-Neith, a former consort in Egypt's First…

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Read more about the article Archaeologists Uncover Stunning Fossil Footprint Of Giant Bird That Roamed Atlantic Coast Eight Million Years Ago
Picture shows a scientist to examine the footprints found in Caleta de los Loros y Pozo Salado, Argentina, undated. The analysis of the footprints confirmed that its age is 8 million years, belonging to the Late Miocene era in which the dinosaurs were extinct and it was given the scientific name Rionegrina pozosaladensis. (Gobierno de Rio Negro/Newsflash)

Archaeologists Uncover Stunning Fossil Footprint Of Giant Bird That Roamed Atlantic Coast Eight Million Years Ago

Archaeologists in Argentina have uncovered a stunning fossil footprint of a giant bird that roamed the Atlantic coast about eight million years ago. The ancient bird, known as 'Rionegrina pozosaladensis',…

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Read more about the article Namibian Animal Tracking Experts Help German Archaeologists Match Footprint Pictures To Animals
Image shows detail of Stone Age depictions of human footprints and animal tracks in Doro Nawas mountains, Namibia, undated photo. The carvings date back to the Later Stone Age. (Andreas Pastoors, Tracking in Caves/Newsflash)

Namibian Animal Tracking Experts Help German Archaeologists Match Footprint Pictures To Animals

Archaeologists examining prehistoric artwork of footprints up to 50,000 years old in southwest Africa have been able to determine the type of animals and even their likely ages by cooperating…

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Read more about the article Perfetly Preserved 2,000-Year-Old Child’s Shoe Found At Ancient Mine
Image shows the 2,000-year-old child's shoe, undated photo. It was found by researchers in the village of Duerrnberg, Austria. (German Mining Museum Bochum/Newsflash)

Perfetly Preserved 2,000-Year-Old Child’s Shoe Found At Ancient Mine

A perfectly preserved child's shoe unearthed from a 2,000-year-old Iron Age mine has been hailed by archaeologists as a first step in cracking the era's social history, The simple shoe…

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Read more about the article Historic Discovery Of Fossilised Skeletons Of Humans’ 850,000-Year-Old Cannibal Ancestors
Picture shows part of a parietal bone of Homo Antecessor, undated. Scientist found Homo Antecessor remains from 800,000 years ago found in Atapuerca, Spain, during a 2023 campaign. (Maria D. Guillen, IPHES-CERCA/Newsflash)

Historic Discovery Of Fossilised Skeletons Of Humans’ 850,000-Year-Old Cannibal Ancestors

Archaeologists in Spain have unearthed the fossilised skeletons of humans' 850,000-year-old cannibal ancestors in a historic discovery. The Homo Antecessor remains, the first to be dug up in 20 years,…

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Read more about the article 300,000-Year-Old Boomerang-Like Stick is One of the Oldest Human-Made Wooden Tools
Image shows the double pointed wooden throwing stick, undated photo. It was found in the town of Schoeningen, Germany. (Volker Minkus/Newsflash)

300,000-Year-Old Boomerang-Like Stick is One of the Oldest Human-Made Wooden Tools

One of the earliest examples of a human tool made from wood has been found after archaeologists unveiled a 300,000-year-old double-pointed stick that would have been used as a hunting…

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