Ancient Archeology

‘Oldest’ Iron Age gold work in Britain found in Staffordshire 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- March 10, 2017
Two friends have unearthed jewellery which could be the oldest Iron Age gold discovered in Britain.

By David Aragorn
DNA clues to why woolly mammoth died out 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- March 9, 2017
The last woolly mammoths to walk the Earth were so wracked with genetic disease that they lost their sense of smell, shunned company, and had a strange shiny coat.

By David Aragorn
Million-year-old Footprints in Britain May Alter “Out of Africa” Timeline 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- March 7, 2017
Dozens of prehistoric hominin footprints have been discovered in Norfolk and have been dated back to nearly one million years old. These are the oldest footprints ever discovered outside of Africa and could change the timeline of when the earliest human species migrated out of Africa and into Europe. The study comes from a collaboration of British research facilities and the results were published on PLOS ONE.

By David Aragorn
The Earliest Known Dictionaries 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- March 7, 2017
The oldest known dictionaries are cuneiform tablets from the Akkadian empire with biliingual wordlists in Sumerian and Akkadian discovered in Ebla in modern Syria.

By David Aragorn
Visiting Dmanisi, Earliest Hominin Site Beyond Africa 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- March 7, 2017
In a quiet corner of the Republic of Georgia, hidden beneath medieval and Bronze Age ruins, the hominin fossil jackpot of Dmanisi is rewriting the story of human evolution.

By David Aragorn
Massive, 12,000-year-old underground tunnels stretch from Scotland to Turkey 4
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- March 4, 2017
There are countless, extremely ancient underground tunnels and chambers that stretch across the European Continent. These massive, 12-000-year-old underground tunnels are the product of ancient man which was far more advanced and knowledgeable than what mainstream scholars are willing to accept. Are these tunnels the ultimate evidence of a lost culture inhabiting Europe?

By David Aragorn
Experts believe mysterious aluminium object dating back 250,000 years ‘could be part of ancient UFO’0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web, UFO News
- March 4, 2017
Metallic aluminium was not produced by mankind until around 200 years ago – but this appears manufactured making the object a baffling find

By David Aragorn
Maya pendant a puzzle to archaeologists 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- March 3, 2017
To say that UC San Diego archaeologist Geoffrey Braswell was surprised to discover a precious jewel in Nim Li Punit in southern Belize is something of an understatement.

By David Aragorn
Native Americans and pyramids, and origins TIMELINE 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- March 2, 2017
This generalized timeline shows the two waves of migration by Siberians/Mongolians (Asia) who crossed the Beiring Strait (land bridge) to what is now Alaska, Canada, North America, Mesoamerica, and South America.

By David Aragorn
Malta’s secret tunnels: inside the newly discovered underworld of Valletta 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- March 1, 2017
Malta’s picturesque capital has been used as the set of Gladiator, Troy and King’s Landing in Game of Thrones – but it is also riven by subterranean passages that go back to the legendary Knights of Malta. As the city prepares to be European Capital of Culture, should the tunnels be opened to the public?

By David Aragorn