Story By: Jonathan Macias, Sub Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: Central European News Video Credit: CEN/@museoscaglia This is the moment a team of palaeontologists dig up a 3-million-year-old fossil belonging to an armoured mammal which could grow to the size of a Volkswagen Beetle. The remains of a prehistoric 3-million-year-old mammal were found on the Playa…
Story By: Jonathan Macias, Sub Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: Central European News Video Credit: CEN/@ProyectoEspecialNaylampLambayeque This is the moment experts take the wrapping off the mummy of an Inca nobleman who lived in Peru between the 14th and 15th centuries. The funeral bundle was examined by experts at the museum of Tucume, an archaeological site…
Story By: Ana Lacasa, Sub Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: Central European News Video Credit: CEN/@ProyectoEspecialNaylampLambayeque Experts have discovered 11 ancient graves and skeletons during an archaeological dig in northern Peru including a one with a sceptre and one in a roofed chamber that may have belonged to an elite priest. The discovery took place at…
Story By: Jonathan Macias, Sub Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: Central European News Video Credit: CEN/INAH TV Archaeologists have discovered two 16th-century Spanish anchors off the Mexican coast that may have been part of famous coloniser Hernan Cortes’ expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire. The anchors were discovered off the coast of Villa…
Story By: Ana Lacasa, Sub Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: Central European News Researchers have discovered five architectural complexes including a pyramid from the ancient Mayan culture which features offerings to gods, a table with carvings of prisoners and a ritual centre. The discoveries were made at the Chichen Itza archaeological in the state of Yucatan,…
