Africa’s oldest human burial is discovered: Body of a CHILD buried in Kenya dates back 78,000 years

The grave of a three-year-old child who lived 78,000 years ago has been found in Kenya and is thought to be the earliest known burial of a human in Africa.  Dubbed Mtoto, Swahili for child, the individual was interred in the foetal position with their knees drawn up to their chest. The gender of the … Read more

Massive 4-foot, 50-pound bone from a Columbian mammoth is discovered by divers in a Florida river

A pair of divers uncovered a giant mammoth femur on a scuba trip in Florida. The four-foot leg bone was preserved in the sediment at the bottom of the Peace River, about 55 miles from Sarasota. Roaming the area during the Pleistocene era, between 2.6 million and 10,000 years ago, Columbian mammoths could reach 13 … Read more

Charing Cross station evacuated after ‘suspicious package’ was discovered in nearby building 

‘Targeted’ bomb threat is made against Heaven nightclub as drag acts rehearse there for West End show forcing part of central London including Charing Cross station to be evacuated Met Police said they were alerted to a ‘suspicious package’ next to Charing Cross The train station and other buildings had to be evacuated as a ‘precaution’ … Read more

Charing Cross station evacuated after ‘suspicious package’ was discovered in nearby building 

‘Targeted’ bomb threat is made against Heaven nightclub as drag acts rehearse there for West End show forcing part of central London including Charing Cross station to be evacuated Met Police said they were alerted to a ‘suspicious package’ next to Charing Cross The train station and other buildings had to be evacuated as a ‘precaution’ … Read more

Massive 4-foot, 50-pound bone from a Columbian mammoth is discovered by divers in a Florida river

A pair of divers uncovered a giant mammoth femur on a scuba trip in Florida. The four-foot leg bone was preserved in the sediment at the bottom of the Peace River, about 55 miles from Sarasota. Roaming the area during the Pleistocene era, between 2.6 million and 10,000 years ago, Columbian mammoths could reach 13 … Read more

Elizabethan era map of London featuring Tower of London discovered in house clearance

One of the earliest known maps of London has been found during a routine house clearance. The fascinating engraved plan of the capital of England dates from the time of Queen Elizabeth I and William Shakespeare. The handmade map shows how the city looked in the 1570s when it would have had a population of … Read more

Horse bones from the ice age discovered during installation of a pool in a Las Vegas backyard 

Las Vegas couple find home surrounded by cops after construction workers discover bones while digging their pool – which are revealed to be ancient horse bones from the Ice Age Matt Perkins and Joshua Anghel recently moved to Nevada from Washington and were surprised to see police outside their home Pool construction workers had discovered … Read more

World’s first PREGNANT ancient Egyptian mummy has been discovered

The first remains of an ancient Egyptian mummified pregnant woman has been discovered in Thebes, dating back more than 2,000 years. The corpse was 28 weeks into her pregnancy when she died, scans of the body revealed. Experts from the Polish Academy of Sciences, working as part of the Warsaw Mummy Project aimed at scanning all … Read more