A former minister of archaeology and professor of archaeology at Ain Shams University said that a "magnificent" smiling sphinx of a Roman emperor was found at an ancient Egypt site.
The great mystery left behind in Xi'an by China's First Emperor Qin Shi Huang within his tomb remains unsolved, as the latest suggestion to use muons for extremely accurate X-ray imaging has not yet been approved.
A team of US archaeologists from New York University have unearthed over 2,000 mummified sheep heads in an Egyptian temple at Abydos.
Camille Colonna, an anthropologist at France's National Institute of Preventive Archaeological Research (INRAP), announced at a press conference that an ancient necropolis from 2,000 years ago has been unearthed next to a Paris train station.
"This iron-rich material is a remnant of ancient rocks from Earth's early history or even that iron might be leaking from the core by an unknown means," was one of the comments made by the project leader. This has led to scientists studying a massive underground structure hidden deep beneath Hawaii.
During an investigation by scientists of the NOAA Ocean Exploration, they found a mysterious line of holes at the summit of an underwater volcano north of the Azores at a depth of 1.7 miles in the Atlantic Ocean.
Skulls of over 150 women who were ritually decapitated over 1000 years ago have been found in Mexico. Experts believe ritual human sacrifices targeted poor individuals in earlier civilizations.
Anthropologists have put forth a theory that the reason why an Iranian cemetery has penis-shaped tombstones is that it may be connected to a culture from Central Asia or India that practised phallic worship, but there is little evidence to support this theory.
Never before seen ancient artifacts which were trafficked from Italy have been brought back to The Museum of Rescued Art, which is a new museum created solely for the purpose of exhibiting stolen artifacts.
Over 400 pits, each over 2 meters wide, have been unearthed by scientists around Stonehenge. These mysterious pits discovered near Stonehenge appear to be man-made, as per a new study.
