For instance, during the Qin dynasty in ancient China, it is claimed that soldiers collected the heads of their dead enemies, and tied them around their waists. This was intended to terrorise and ...

The Tayos caves of Ecuador are a legendary vast natural underground network of caves spanning many kilometres, very little of which has been officially explored. The Tayos caves (Cueva de los Tayos) ...

In the early 1970s, a local guaquero (meaning ‘grave robber’) stumbled upon an ancient city in Colombia's Sierra Nevada after climbing a flight of over 1000 stone stairs from a riverbank. The ...

Shamanism is a religious practice found in many regions of the world that involves a practitioner traversing the ‘axis mundi’ – a channel of communication between parallel worlds. Shamans reach an ...

Satellite imagery has uncovered 76 elaborate stone hunting traps and hundreds of previously unknown settlements in the Andean highlands of northern Chile, revealing that hunting and foraging remained ...

Traces of the unknown new genome were detected in two teeth and a finger bone of a Denisovan, which was discovered in a Siberian cave. There is not much data available about the appearance of ...

During the Second World War a brooch inscribed with ancient Norse runes (letters) was discovered in a field at Værløse Airfield in Denmark telling a sinister story of the Nazi’s efforts to abuse ...

The Museo del Oro (Museum of Gold) in Bogota, Colombia displays the biggest, and one of the most important, collections of pre-Hispanic metallurgy in the world. The museum has a stunning collection of ...

There are undoubtedly millions of amazing artifacts from the ancient world that have served to shed light on the lives of our ancestors from many millennia ago. But some stand out for their uniqueness ...

Lying on the northern outskirts of the city of Cusco in Peru, lies the walled complex of Saksaywaman (Sacsayhuaman). The site is famed for its remarkable large dry stone walls with boulders carefully ...

The Shepherd's Monument, located in the gardens of Shugborough Hall, has been the subject of fascination and speculation since its creation in the 18th century. Although its primary function is as a ...

This is the account of the discovery of a skull that has the potential to change what we know about human evolution, and a suppression and cover-up which followed. In 1959, in an area called ...