2,000-Year-Old Shoe Unearthed in German Bog Bogs have been home to some of the weirdest items and artifacts, some that were buried or stored intentionally, and others that were inadvertently lost in the mud. The archaeological record is full of bizarre finds including barrels full of butter to well-preserved human bodies, murder weapons, wheels, or […]

Creatures from legends occasionally turned out to be real. While some of these “legendary creatures” turned out to be normal animals, others were exactly how we imagined them. Among the creatures we found was the legendary hellhound. Animals, like dogs, are often associated with the devil. In Celtic folklore and superstitions, a hound is said

Reindeer herders in a Russian Arctic archipelago have found an immaculately preserved carcass of an Ice Age cave bear, researchers said Monday. The find — revealed as permafrost melts across vast areas of Siberia — was discovered on the Lyakhovsky Islands with its teeth and even its nose intact. Previously, scientists only had been able

At Europe’s oldest battlefield, archaeologists found new clues about who fought on the skeleton-strewn grounds some 3,250 years ago. Starting in the 1980s, people began finding ancient daggers, knives and other weapons in the river sediment around Tollense Valley in northeastern Germany. Several skulls were found, too. In 1996, an amateur archaeologist even discovered an

The mysterious object, called a “Roman dodecahedron,” was unearthed in the summer of 2023 during an archaeological dig in a farmer’s field near the Lincolnshire Footage of Norton Disney.(Image credit: Norton Disney History and Archaeology Group) Amateur archaeologists in England have unearthed a stunning Roman dodecahedron — a mysterious class of objects that has baffled

The Chachapoya civilization, also called the “Warriors of the Clouds”, was a culture of the Andes living in the cloud forests of the southern part of the Department of Amazonas of present-day Peru. Predating the Inca by over six centuries, Chachapoya culture flourished from around AD 800 in Peru’s remote northern highlands. The population, which

Martand Sun Temple in Kashmir. It was destroyed by Sultan Sikandar Shah Miri in 1401 AD. Around 1200 years ago, a great king built a grand temple, dedicated to Martand, the Sun god. The temple had mighty grey stone walls, its courtyard was filled with river water that glinted and sparkled in the sun, and

In a fragment of sandstone sticking from the soil in the sparkling flatlands of Northeast Ethiopia, a fossil fragment of the cheekbone has been detected. Zeresenay Alemseged almost instinctively realised that he had come across something important. The skinbone brought a jaw, parts of a skull and eventually collar bones, shoulder blades, ribs and —

Construction workers unearthed a life-size marble statue of a Roman emperor dressed as Hercules while repairing a Roman sewer. “I doubt anyone was expecting a find like this under these circumstances,” Jane Draycott, an archaeologist and historian at the University of Glasgow, told the Miami Herald’s Brendan Rascius. “A nice surprise amongst the sewage!” The

The Enigma of Ancient Aliens: Have You Ever Been Curious About Their Appearance? One of the more mysterious symbols that has been found in carvings from the ancient world is an image that looks uncannily like a modern-day handbag. The shape appears in depictions made by the Sumerians of Iraq, in the ruins of Turkish