(Natural News) Archaeologists have discovered the ruins of what they believe is a temple of the Greek god Poseidon near the modern-day village of Kato Samiko in western Greece. The area where the ruins were found matches the location pertained to by the ancient Greek historian Strabo, who described the temple some 2,000 years ago. […]

(Natural News) Thirty lead tablets that called upon “the gods of the underworld” to curse the dead are found at the bottom of a 2,500 year-old well in Athens. Discovered in the area of Kerameikos, ancient Athens’ main burial ground, these curses were ritual texts usually scratched on small lead objects. “The person that ordered a curse […]

(Natural News) A treasure trove of valuable artifacts, such as a headdress and four silver buckles inlaid with gold and and semiprecious stones, were stashed away for more than 1,600 years in an ancient grave in Czech Republic. Discovered in 2019 by Czech archaeologists from the East Bohemian Museum, the grave housed the remains of a woman estimated to be aged […]

(Natural News) Researchers from Italy have found what appears to be intact brain cells that belonged to a man scorched alive by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius. The cells were preserved within the man’s blackened skull, vitrified, or turned into a glass-like substance, after being exposed to extreme heat and cooling rapidly, reported the researchers in […]

(Natural News) Scientists recently found evidence of an unknown ancestor of humans whose DNA is present even in people living today. Their findings, published in the journal Plos Genetics, were derived from a novel algorithm that allowed scientists to map the lineages of early humans and the interbreeding events that occurred between them. Among the ancient ancestors included in the […]

(Natural News) The Mayan civilization dominated Mesoamerica before the arrival of the Spanish conquistadors. A recent excavation in Guatemala uncovered the remains of a Mayan royal in a pyramid deep in the jungle. One of the three pyramids archaeologists found hosted the complete skeleton of a woman believed to be a Mayan queen. Researchers say her mortal remains are 1,500 years […]

(Natural News) An excavation site in Jiaojia village in eastern China’s Shandong province near Jinan City, which had been known to be around 5,000 years old, was recently discovered to house men who were considered “giants” by ancient (5,000 years ago) standards. The corpses, which came from the Longshan culture during the late Neolithic civilization […]