An expert restorer has completed her life's work of bringing these stunning Mayan murals back to life and prevent them from being completely destroyed by the salty winds by the Caribbean Sea. Local media report expert restorer Monica A. Lopez Portillo has completed her work of 30 years in the…
A team of archaeologists have discovered the fossilised remains of a 33-foot ‘megaraptor’ which was a “formidable” hunter when it roamed the Earth around 70 million years ago. Specialists from the Argentine Museum of Natural Sciences discovered the remains of the megaraptor in the Patagonia region in the southern Argentine…
Archaeologists have found these fossilised remains of 22 elephant-sized sloths from the Ice Age preserved in asphalt. The archaeological find took place at the Tanque Loma site in the Santa Elena peninsula in western Ecuador where fossils of the Panamerican ground sloth (Eremotherium laurillardi) were found. Experts at the excavation…
This is the giant prehistoric wall engraving of a wild bull which has been discovered in Portugal and is now the largest ever found on the Iberian Peninsula. The engraving was discovered at the Vale do Coa Archaeological Park in northeastern Portugal and is part of a panel of newly…
Picture Credit: CEN/Bayerisches Landesamt fur Denkmalpflege Archaeologists have found the grave of a warrior nobleman not only buried with gold and other valuables but also with his beloved horse. The discovery was made by archaeologists investigating a German Alamanni forerunner settlement in the municipality of Nordendorf in the state of…
