Category Archives: Ancient History

Ancient Cemetery Discovered : Green Sahara (Video)

Posted on May 8, 2012 by

An ancient cemetery was discovered back in 2000, by dinosaur hunters who happened to stumble across human skeletons buried in the Sahara. The team from the University of Chicago had been in the area before and had discovered new species … Continue reading →

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Prehistoric Embryo Found (Video)

Posted on February 21, 2012 by

A prehistoric embryo was found still inside its mother. The 78 million year old fossil of a Polycotylus latippinus, which is a four flippered swimmer and classed as a reptile, was originally found back in 1987, on a Ranch in … Continue reading →

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77,000 Year Old Bed Discovered: Africa (Video)

Posted on January 20, 2012 by

An archaeological team studying the fossil record of an ancient civilization at Sibudu Cave, north of Durban in the KwaZulu-Natal province in South Africa, has discovered in a shelter carved out of the sandstone cliff face bedding, from 40,000 years … Continue reading →

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Deep Sea Fishing 42,000 Years Ago

Posted on November 28, 2011 by

This is such an incredible find, no it’s beyond incredible. The first evidence of humans fishing using items like spears, was dated at around 12,000 years ago, when archaeologists discovered some spearheads that was used for fishing on the Channel Islands … Continue reading →

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Tomb of Cyrus:- Iran (Video)

Posted on September 1, 2011 by

The Tomb of Cyrus is the burial place of the ancient Cyrus the Great of Persia. The tomb is located in Iran, at the Pasargadae World Heritage Site. Cyrus the Great (c. 590 BC; August 529 BC or 530 BC), … Continue reading →

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Ancient Nan Madol:- Micronesia (Video Included)

Posted on July 6, 2011 by

Nan Madol is a ruined city that lies off the eastern shore of the island of Pohnpei that was the capital of the Saudeleur dynasty until about AD 1500. It is in the present day Madolenihmw district of Pohnpei state, … Continue reading →

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Borobudur Temple:- Indonesia (Video Included)

Posted on June 22, 2011 by

There is no written record of who built Borobudur or of its intended purpose. The construction time has been estimated by comparison between carved reliefs on the temple’s hidden foot and the inscriptions commonly used in royal charters during the … Continue reading →

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Woolly Mammoth to be Resurrected (Video Included)

Posted on January 19, 2011 by

Japanese researchers plan to resurrect the long-extinct mammoth by using cloning technology to bring the ancient pachyderm back to life in around five years time, according to a report. The researchers will try to revive the species by obtaining tissue … Continue reading →

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Tarim Mummies (Video Included)

Posted on November 29, 2010 by

The Tarim mummies are a series of mummies discovered in the Tarim Basin in present-day Xinjiang, China, which date from 1800 BCE to 200 CE. Some of the mummies are frequently associated with the presence of the Indo-European Tocharian languages … Continue reading →

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Ancient Stone Formations Carnac (Video Included)

Posted on November 17, 2010 by

The Carnac stones are an exceptionally dense collection of megalithic sites around the French village of Carnac, in Brittany, consisting of alignments, dolmens, tumuli and single menhirs. The more than 3,000 prehistoric standing stones were hewn from local rock and … Continue reading →

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