Ancient Origins investigates artifacts in Ecuador that could provide evidence of unknown civilizations, connections between America and Sumeria, a Vatican conspiracy, and more.
What appears to be an ancient Roman sword has been found off the East Coast of Canada, and it is just one of several indications that Romans were there around 200 A.D.
The idea of “technological primitivism” often attributed to hunter-gatherer coastal settlers must be reevaluated, say Emanuele Lodolo and Zvi Ben-Abraham.
They had dug through 11 layers of limestone, each separated by a bed of sand mixed with clay, and there they found wooden hammer handles and other wooden tools petrified into agate.
Oopart (out of place artifact) is a term applied to dozens of prehistoric objects found in various places around the world that seem to show a level of technological advancement incongruous with the times in which they were made.
The Bosnian Pyramids are said by some to be man-made, but some say they are natural formations. Sam Osmanagich, Ph.D., continues to excavate and says he has found much evidence of a prehistoric culture responsible for building the pyramids.
Hesiod’s description of the ancient Greek dwelling place of gorgons seems to match the mysterious labyrinth ruins of Chavin de Huantar in the Peruvian Andes.
A triceratops brow horn discovered in Dawson County, Mont., has been controversially dated to around 33,500 years, challenging the view that dinosaurs died out around 65 million years ago.