Archaeology - History Defined

How Matching Dinosaur Footprints Ended Up on Opposite Sides of the Atlantic Ocean

Our planet hasn’t always looked the way it does. For millions of years, Earth was so drastically different from the world we know that it might as well have been a different planet! In August 2024, paleontologists made an exciting find: matching sets of dinosaur footprints. Simply finding dinosaur footprints, hundreds of millions of years […]

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25 of the Coolest Ancient Egyptian Artifacts Ever Found

Ancient Egypt was is one of the oldest and most influential civilizations in human history. It was located on the banks of the Nile River in Northwest Africa. Ancient Egypt saw its fair share of war, conquers, and rulers. But it was also an age of agriculture, inventions, and art. With the boom in archaeology

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Doggerland: The Long Lost Land of Ancient Europe

Nine thousand years ago, the British Isles were connected to each other and to the mainland by vast stretches of low-lying lands. These lands were collectively referred to as Doggerland. At its height, this vast area made up a quarter of European land. It provided rich hunting grounds for countless generations of hominids, including prehistoric

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The Way of Water: How Roman Aqueducts Were Constructed

Roman aqueducts were, and still are, an impressive feat of engineering. Designed to transport water over almost impossibly long distances, they were the veins carrying the lifeblood of the Roman Empire and sustained life across the vast stretches of its borders. They stretched across Europe and brought the various communities the Romans conquered together. They

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The Mystery of the Great Serpent Mound of Ohio

The Great Serpent Mound is an ancient earthworks site located in present-day Ohio. This effigy mound is over a quarter of a mile long, up to twenty-five feet wide, and five feet tall. It’s the largest serpent effigy ever discovered. Effigy mounds were common in the Mississippi Valley. Other surviving examples have been found in

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Ley Lines: A Source of Mysticism or Truth?

Some might call ley lines pseudoscience, but the idea of these ancient pathways has persisted. Connecting ancient sites, monuments, and structures, ley lines might be invisible to the naked eye. But they connect some of the most important places like vessels across the body of the world. Investigated by scholars and esoteric groups alike, the

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The Great Sphinx of Giza Through the Centuries

The Sphinx is a mythical creature with a human head and the body of a lion. In Greek mythology, the Sphinx also had the wings of an eagle. The word ‘Sphinx’ comes to English from the Greek. Some scholars believe that this name comes from the Greek word for ‘squeeze’ – a reference to how

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The Recently Discovered Underground City of Derinkuyu

It’s one of the strangest and most startling discoveries ever made. A man wanting to make some changes to his basement took a sledgehammer to a wall and couldn’t believe what was behind it. Just like Andy Dufresne found a sewer that extended five football fields outside of Shawshank prison after digging his way through

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The Titanboa: The Biggest Snake That Ever Lived

You would think this was something out of a Harry Potter movie. But it actually existed, as scientists have discovered. In 2009, coal miners and scientists discovered more than 180 fossils of a gargantuan snake in a Colombian region called Cerrejon. The conclusion from the finding was that 60 million years ago after dinosaurs had

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The Discovery of the Odd Statues of ‘Ain Ghazal

‘Ain Ghazal houses the remains of an ancient culture that thrived there for thousands of years. It is one of the largest Neolithic settlements ever found. The site is in modern-day Jordan and is best known for the ʿAin Ghazal statues that were discovered there in the 1980s. Some of the archeological remains found at

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