Recent underwater surveys carried out by Superintendency of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape for the Metropolitan Area of Naples discovered a submerged worked stone block lying on the seabed at the Blue Grotto.
A new species of shark has been discovered in Alabama that survived the mass extinction, became one of the ocean’s top predators at that time. (Palaeohypotodus bizzocoi)
Archaeologists have discovered the first definitive evidence of the presence of a hallucinogenic and poisonous plant (Black henbane) in a Roman settlement on the borders of the present day Netherlands. It is thought to have been used in the Roman world.
Archaeologists have discovered a 4500-year-old ancient Sumerian palace and other structures at Tablet Hill in the Sumerian city of Girsu in southern Iraq.
24,000 or 34,000 years ago, ancient adornments used by people living in what is now Europe were analyzed. And it has been proven that 9 different cultures lived in the region.
Our ancestors chewed gum just like we do, but their ancient gum was actually a tarry tree resin, and we can be sure it didn’t taste anything like ours.
