Following years of study by archeologists both here in the United States and Europe, scientists are now claiming that homo erectus, an extinct species of hominid, could have been given his name for more than one reason. Though fossilized bones ar...
This story will be published in 2136 (Digital Age date format) - BIRMINGHAM, EMPIRE OF C4M3R0N (former UK) - Archealogists from the Univeristy of Birmingham have discovered the entertainment habits of early 21st century peoples, known as Britons.
Archaeologists have found a 'fantastically preserved' doorbell in the Swiss city of Zurich. "The doorbell could have been made as early as the year 3062 BC." - Dr. Bleacher The find is one of the oldest doorbells ever found in Europe and is rem...
The fossil of a giant and deadly penguin that roamed the earth 36 million years ago has been discovered in Peru. Scientists, writing in Science journal, say that the features of the bird show that it evolved from early penguins, with brown and gra...
A recent historical excavation of Stonehenge has shocked the sports world by proving footballers of the Neolithic period employed goal-line technology. It is the latest exciting development regarding the prehistoric megalith, following on from las...
Archaelogical Department, University of Oxbridge: Exciting news from the usually sleepy world of archaeology, Dr Penny Horlick, a prehistoric archaeologist at the University of Oxbridge, has found a living example of prehistoric man, the australopit...
A metal detector enthusiast in Cumbria has discovered a rare Roman bronze helmet complete with face-mask, believed to belong to an ancient charioteer who would have been the historical equivalent of our modern day "The Stig" The helmet would have...
Stunned Irishman Finbar McNamara,39, was digging in his 40 acre garden-and uncovered a prisoner of war camp! Finbar,a local handyman of questionable parentage and intelligence from Much Hadham in Hertfordshire, nearly dropped his 1.5 litre bottle of…
Archaeologists in Switzerland have found what appears to be the remains of the missing link in man's evolution. The skull has a disproportionately protruding lower jaw, a small cranium and the eye sockets appear unusually close together. It also appe...
Laredo- Two researchers from The Center for Immigration Studies discovered the remains of what is thought to be the oldest known illegal immigrant. Hector Valdez Juan Pablo and Chin Ming, two researchers from CIS, while studying the migration patt...
Amateur fossil hunter, Norman Soffett from Southampton, has reportedly discovered a skull dating back almost 2 million years, pre-dating the most recent ice-age. If, as believed, the skull belongs to the Pliocene epoch of the Tertiary period, then...
Archaeologists in France have discovered what they believe to be the oldest porn in existence. The pornography is depicted in a series of graphic paintings in a remote cave the archaeologists have named Le Grande Gash. British scientist and fl...
The University of Newport Department of Archaeology has published the results of its lengthy 'Back of the Wight' area study, writes Local History, Country Matters and Gardening Correspondent, Percy Trowel. The study was funded with the help of spo...
Crew members aboard the ice-breaker vessel, UB. Fregot, on a scientific exploration mission to the North-Pole were shocked beyond belief when a polar ice-cap collapsed right in front of their ship exposing 10,000 perfectly preserved corpses. Upon...
Researchers have discovered stone tools in Norfolk, UK, that suggest that early humans arrived in Britain nearly a million years ago - or even earlier. Ever since then, knife crime has been on the increase. In 2000BC alone there were a dozen...
Palaeontologists in France have discovered two mammal hairs encased in 100 million-year-old amber. The hairs, found alongside a fly pupa in amber uncovered in southwest France, are similar to hair found on modern-day mammals, and it's thought that...
Neanderthal News Network, Louisburg, Nova Scotia. Leif Erickson's buddies, and other Viking types, were in the new world long before Columbus. Now Archeologists have unearthed startling evidence that Neanderthals sailed the Atlantic thirty thousa...
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