Mysteries

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Mysteries July 22, 2017

Archaeologists may have discovered the world’s oldest known ‘smiley face’ on a 3700-year old flask

While a wide range of emoticons are often available at your disposal in the present-day electronic media, the human inclination towards ideograms goes back to…

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Researchers reconstruct the face of a Pictish man whose tomb was discovered 30 years ago

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Sections of Hippocrates’ medical recipe discovered in Egypt’s St Catherine’s Monastery

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Facial reconstruction of a Dublin ‘lower-class’ commoner from the Tudor era

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The outlandish horned helmet of Henry VIII still retains its fair share of mysteries

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The oldest grape found in Denmark alludes to earlier Bronze Age contact between Scandinavia and southern Europe

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Archaeologists identify a very rare Anglo-Saxon burial monument, contemporary of Sutton Hoo

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2400-year old ancient Greek curse tablets ‘call upon’ the gods of the underworld

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Researchers restore the heads of possible goddesses, originally found in an ancient dump yard

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Mysteries May 24, 2017

Gene study hypothesizes how ancient Dutch hosts may have overwhelmed Britain’s native Stonehenge builders

The Stonehenge and enigma go hand in hand, in regards to both its structural scope and its actual purpose. However this time around historians are…

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