The Greatest Egyptian Cover-Up... (What Is It They Are Hiding from The
World?)
It would seem that there have been many strange discoveries
throughout Egypt and they continue to this very day. Some involve the discovery of great underground complexes, mysterious passage ways and tunnels, even hidd...

There a many references of the Star of Bethlehem, possibly even identified within old Roman coins, but what actually was this strange heavenly sighting? Considering the story that three wise men were able to follow the star through the night sky and that is allegedly stopped over the location whe...

What appear to be prehistoric beads have been discovered in South Africa, bolstering a theory that early humans were far more intellectually sophisticated than commonly thought. Archaeologists who discovered the ancient jewelry say the beads represent a form of symbolism associated with modern hu...

The mysterious story of the Nampa Figurine begins in 1889 near the town of Nampa in southwestern Idaho (USA). A group of workers was searching for water, so they started digging a borehole with a steam pump. Their goal was to create a well. When they got to 295 feet (90 meters) underground, dirt ...

Early European explorers called the ruined city of Nan Madol the "Eighth Wonder of the World" and the "Venice of the Pacific" because the ancient city was built upon a coral reef and is intersected by artificial water canals. When it was first chronicled by Western biographers, they too were conf...

A leading palaeontologist has questioned the heritage of a 3.5-million-year-old fossil skull hailed two years ago as a new human relative. The fossil hit the headlines when Meave Leakey and colleagues of the national museums of Kenya described it as evidence of a new human-like lineage. They name...

Researchers have read strands of ancient DNA teased from the thigh bone of an early human who died 400,000 years ago in what is now northern Spain. The genetic material was pieced together from a clutch of cells found in bone fragments – the oldest human remains ever to yield their genetic code. ...

There are many books and publications about Gideon Algernon Mantell, his own extensive publications and his associates, but the most authoritative is by Dennis Dean in 1999, reference below. In 1818 Mantell began to keep a Journal as he called it “a sketch of passing events”. The original copies ...

After a tortuous 20-year-long excavation, a mysterious ancient skeleton is starting to give up its secrets about human evolution. The first of a raft of papers about ‘Little Foot’ suggests that the fossil is a female who showed some of the earliest signs of human-like bipedal walking around 3.67 ...

Brazilian archaeologists have found an ancient stone structure in a remote corner of the Amazon that may cast new light on the region's past. The site, thought to be an observatory or place of worship, pre-dates European colonization and is said to suggest a sophisticated knowledge of astronomy. ...

Kryptos is a sculpture by the American artist Jim Sanborn located on the grounds of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Langley, Virginia. Since its dedication on November 3, 1990, there has been much speculation about the meaning of the four encrypted messages it bears. Of these four messag...

The Waldseemuller map continues to baffle many experts. Why did the mapmaker name the territory America and then change his mind later? How was he able to draw South America so accurately? Why did he put a huge ocean west of America years before European explorers discovered the Pacific? Many hav...

There are black Madonnas and Black Madonnas. The former applies generically to any dark-skin-colored representation of Mary. Falling into this category are recent depictions of Our Lady like Larry Scully's Madonna and Child of Soweto. The term used frequently to designate these images is incultur...

The ruins of a 2,500-year-old lost ancient civilisation were recently found in a lake in Kyrgyzstan (Keer-gistan). Some researchers believe that these ancient remains may include an ancient Armenian monastery where, according to legend, the body of St Matthew, one of Jesus' disciples and his many...

In the Fall of 1869, Gideon Emmons and Henry Nichols made a monumental archaeological discovery. They were digging a well on a farm outside Cardiff, New York, for a man named William Newell. Three feet down, they hit stone, and as they cleared away the dirt, they made out what seemed to be a huma...

There is a legend which has excited the imagination of explorers and adventurers for centuries ... an ancient city lost for millennia beneath the sea. Robert Sarmast, an archaeologist and author of a book on the lost city, has located the centre of what he believes to be Atlantis, a "walled hills...

King Tutankhamen died 3,336 years ago, at just 19 years old, and death has always been somewhat mysterious. After Howard Carter found his tomb in 1922, theories from murder to epilepsy, to malaria have abounded. But British researchers think they’ve figured it out. Their examination of Tut’s rema...

The recent discovery of fossilized trees dating back more than 260 million years has shocked the scientific community. Together with other recently discovered fossilized plant and tree discoveries on Antarctica these finds suggests something that should not be - that the world’s coldest, driest c...

According to a reading from a newly digitized fragment of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Noah's Ark was something different than what is currently believed.

Ever since mummy KV55 was discovered in 1907, it has generated deep interest, debate, and controversy. The big issues have been identifying the KV55 mummy in ancient Egyptian history and combining its most probable identity with that person’s proposed age of death.
If mummy KV55 is the ‘heretic ...

Newly released data from a European satellite has revealed the tectonic underworld below the frozen southernmost continent. Researchers have created incredible 3-D maps of Antarctica’s tectonic underworld and found that the ice has been concealing the remains of an ancient supercontinent’s spect...

Marine archaeologists discovered the remains in the Gulf of Cambay, off the western coast of India. Using sonar scanning technology – which sends a beam of sound waves down to the bottom of the sea – they identified huge geometrical structures. The vast region, which measured five miles long and ...

The Aztec people of Mexico created one of the greatest empires of the ancient Americas. While much is known about their empire located where today’s Mexico City can be found, less is known about the very start of the Aztec culture. Many consider the missing island of Aztlan to be the ancient home...

The Bible says that a river flowed through the Garden of Eden and then split into four branches. There is only one river in the Near East that does exactly this, and that is the long oasis-garden of the Nile valley and its division into the (originally) four branches of the Nile Delta. It would s...