A guard at the Great Wall of China has discovered a 450-year-old stone tablet with the names and titles of 15 officials during the Ming Dynasty on top of a tower. The stone tablet, dating back to the reign of Emperor Wanli during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), was discovered on…
Archaeologists have found ancient tools which they say for the first time in history prove human beings and their ancestors have had a continuous presence in Europe going back 1.2 million years. The tools were discovered at the Gran Dolina dig site, within the important archaeological area of Atapuerca, located…
A search for a missing toddler has led to the discovery of 23 children being held by a human trafficking gang and the arrest of three women. The children were rescued by the police in the municipality of San Cristobal de las Casas in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas…
An archaeological study inside a cave in Mexico suggests that humans inhabited North America during the Last Glacial Maximum, up to 15,000 years earlier than previously believed. The discovery was made in a cave christened Chiquihuite by researchers, in the central-northern Mexican state of Zacatecas. The findings of the scientific…
Russian authorities have found a radioactive batch of blueberries contaminated with an isotope used in nuclear weapons and plants on sale in a market near Moscow. The startling discovery was made in a batch of blueberries on the market in Mytishchi, a city in western Russia, near the capital Moscow,…
