It was long thought to have be just a hoax, but the National Geograhic finally put the story to bed in December 2007 when it announced that the Giant Skeletons the National Geographic Society allegedly helped to “discovery” in India, was nothing more than an image manipulated hoax.
The original story was picked up by hundreds […]

An 8 metre (25 foot) high statue of Anubis, the Egyptian God of the Dead floated down the Thames (London) on Monday.
The Jackle headed God is in town to promote a new exhibition on Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs, and will be on desplay in Trafalgar Square for three days before moving […]

Preliminary results from DNA tests carried out on a mummy believed to be Queen Hatshepsut is expected to support the claim by Egyptian authorities that the remains are indeed those of Egypt’s most powerful female ruler.
Egyptologists in Cairo announced last month that a tooth found in a wooden box associated with Hatshepsut exactly fitted the […]

Man, everything changes so quickly. I have been in France and Italy for the last two months with my girlfriend, travelling and exploring a part of the world that is right on our doorstep (I live in the UK just in case you didn’t know), yet for some reason we rarely visit.
We had planed to […]

The long search for Herod the Great’s tomb has ended with the exposure of the remains of his grave, sarcophagus and mausoleum on Mount Herodium’s north-eastern slope, Prof. Ehud Netzer of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Institute of Archaeology announced on Tuesday (8th May 2007).Herod was the Roman-appointed king of Judea from 37 to 4 […]

Scientists return this week to the world’s deepest known sinkhole, Cenote Zacatn in Mexico, to resume tests of a NASA-funded robot called DEPTHX, designed to survey and explore for life in one of Earth’s most extreme regions and potentially in outer space.
If all goes well with this second round of testing and exploration, the team […]

Archeologists from Yale and the University of Leicester have identified an ancient solar observatory at Chankillo, Peru as the oldest in the Americas with alignments covering the entire solar year, according to an article in the March 2 issue of Science.Recorded accounts from the 16th century A.D. detail practices of state-regulated sun worship during Inca […]

After the skeletal remains of an 18,000-year-old, Hobbit-sized human were discovered on the Indonesian island of Flores in 2003, some scientists thought that the specimen must have been a pygmy or a micro-cephalic - a human with an abnormally small skull.
Not so, said Dean Falk, a world-renowned paleoneurologist and chair of Florida State University’s anthropology […]

The origins and earliest branches of primate evolution are clearer and thought to be even more ancient than previous studies estimated - infact they are thought to be a whopping 10 million years more ancient according to a new study.
A paper by researchers at Yale, the University of Winnipeg, Stony Brook University, and led by […]

It has been very quiet around here of late and I would like to apologies to everybody who has been wondering where I have been. The short answer is that I haven’t been anywhere, I have simply gone and found myself a 9 to 5 job again which means I haven’t really had time to […]