Known as astragaloi, the practise of astragalomancy was a game of chance or divination played in antiquity by the Greeks and Romans, with some examples from the Etruscans and near Eastern civilisations. The gaming pieces used ankle or hock bones from animals such as goat or sheep, although imitations have previously been found in bronze…
The Dolmen of Guadalperal is a megalithic monument dating from 5,000 BC in Peraleda de la Mata, a town in the region of Campo Arañuelo in Spain. The dolmen contains 150 orthostat granite stones, placed in a vertical arrangement that forms an ovoid chamber. This is accessed via a corridor with a large menhir at…
Researchers have discovered Homo sapiens did indeed live and survive in the Kalahari Desert more than 20,000 years ago.
19th century academics theorised that the Native Americans were too primitive to be associated with the mounds, instead, implying that they belonged to a lost culture that disappeared before the arrival of Columbus in 1492.
Archaeologists from the University of Manchester, in collaboration with the University of Cardiff and Herefordshire County Council, have discovered rock crystals during excavations at Dorstone Hill in Herefordshire, England.
Pompeii was a Roman city, located in the modern commune of Pompeii near Naples in the Campania region of Italy.
The Olmec are the earliest known Mesoamerican civilisation (also referred to as the “mother culture” of Mesoamerica). The name ‘Olmec’ comes from the Nahuatl word: Ōlmēcatl or Ōlmēcah, meaning ‘rubber people’.
Dozens of Maya elite are buried within Tikal’s temples.
The temple had been ritually demolished in ancient times.
Archaeologists excavating in Abusir, south of Cairo near Saqqara, Egypt, have discovered the ruins of what may be one of the four lost Ancient Egyptian “sun temples”.
Ghost tracks found in salt flats have been identified as prehistoric footprints from the last ice age.
More than 11,000 years ago, young children trekking with their families through what is now White Sands National Park in New Mexico discovered the stuff of childhood dreams: muddy puddles made from the footprints of a giant ground sloth.