Ancient Archeology

Stonehenge: DNA reveals origin of builders 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- December 4, 2019
The ancestors of the people who built Stonehenge travelled west across the Mediterranean before reaching Britain, a study has shown.

By David Aragorn
Early Asteroid Impacts Could Have Spurred Today’s Tectonic Activity 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- December 4, 2019
A new study links a slew of extra-terrestrial impacts millions of years ago to our planet’s most unique feature—plate tectonics.

By David Aragorn
Antarctica: Metal meteorite quest set to get under way 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- December 4, 2019
A team of British scientists has arrived in the Antarctic to try to find the continent’s “missing meteorites”.

By David Aragorn
2000-Year-Old Green Serpentine Mask Discovered At The Base Of A Pyramid In Mexico 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- December 3, 2019
There are many incredible pyramids across North America that are often overlooked by mainstream history. There is a deep history associated with these sites, which show incredible design and architecture. One great example is The Pyramid of the Sun, which is the largest building in Teotihuacan. Experts believe that the pyramid was built around 200 CE. The site is stationed along the Avenue of the Dead, which is directly in between the Pyramid of the Moon and the Ciudadela.

By David Aragorn
Bad luck may have caused Neanderthals’ extinction – study 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- November 29, 2019
Homo sapien invasion may not have prompted Neanderthals’ demise 40,000 years ago

By David Aragorn
Were other humans the first victims of the sixth mass extinction?0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- November 23, 2019
Nine human species walked the Earth 300,000 years ago. Now there is just one. The Neanderthals, Homo neanderthalensis, were stocky hunters adapted to Europe’s cold steppes. The related Denisovans inhabited Asia, while the more primitive Homo erectus lived in Indonesia, and Homo rhodesiensis in central Africa.

By David Aragorn
The “Hobbit” at 15 0
- Ancient Archeology, Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- November 23, 2019
A shocking discovery made a decade and a half ago is changing our understanding of human evolution

By David Aragorn
2 Infants Were Buried Wearing Helmets Made from Kids’ Skulls. And Archaeologists Are Puzzled.0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- November 21, 2019
Two infants were buried some 2,100 years ago wearing “helmets” made from the skulls of other children, archaeologists have discovered.

By David Aragorn
Japan team finds 143 stunning new images in Nazca Lines of Peru 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- November 18, 2019
Japanese researchers discovered 143 stunning geoglyphs of humans, birds, camels and other animals etched into the desert in southern Peru around the mysterious Nazca Lines.

By David Aragorn
Earth was on the other side of the galaxy when dinosaurs reigned 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web, Space
- November 15, 2019
Apart from the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, there aren’t many connections between space and dinosaurs outside of the imagination. But that all changed when NASA research scientist Jessie Christiansen brought the two together in an animation on social media this month.

By David Aragorn