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Posted On: Jun 28th, 2015 at 20:08

India Hampi, my most favourite place on earth, is still revealing its secrets. The vast area – the centre and capital of the Vijayanagara Empire from the 13th to the 17th Century – contains hundreds of temples scattered far and wide. It is also the place where parts of the Hindu epic, the Ramayana, took … Read More

Posted On: Jun 26th, 2015 at 12:19

Peru Something is wrong with this article! A great discovery of buildings that must have preceded the heyday of Moche culture is one finding, but it says the objects / buildings found coincide with the typology of the Moche. So that would put the finds at an earlier stage of Moche culture, which dates from … Read More

Posted On: Jun 24th, 2015 at 13:42

England A new stone circle has been discovered on Dartmoor, south-west England, and is the first such circle discovered for more than a century! This is quite an astonishing find considering the use of modern technology. Even more so since antiquarian and OS maps would have clearly shown the circle didn’t exist, so why it … Read More

Posted On: Jun 23rd, 2015 at 14:39

China The tomb of Lady Mei, who went from a “concubine to becoming a political and military strategist”, has been found during construction in Nanjing. The Ming Dynasty tomb, dating to 1474, contains a wealth of gold objects, including a stunning hairpin, which can be seen on page two of this article http://news.discovery.com/history/gold-filled-tomb-found-at-construction-site-in-china-150514.htm

Posted On: Jun 22nd, 2015 at 15:09

Armenia What is possibly the world’s first military industrial complex has been found several thousand feet up, close to the highest peak in Armenia, and millions of obsidian tools scatter the landscape. Dating back to the Lower Stone Age, the first people to mine the site were our brothers, the Neanderthals. One can only imagine … Read More

Posted On: Jun 19th, 2015 at 14:16

Italy / Austria Everyone’s favourite mummified remains – Ötzi the Iceman – have astonishingly revealed the oldest known human blood cells ever to be found. Ötzi was killed around 5,300 years ago on mountains between Austria and Italy and died from wounds likely to have been inflicted in an ambush. Other fibrin cells found suggest … Read More

Posted On: Jun 18th, 2015 at 14:49

Egypt. Again. Honestly, it’s just a coincidence this is happening in twos at the moment. The Cult of Amun was the most powerful and most secretive of all the ancient Egyptian cults, providing a massive amount of power to the priests who, on many occasions, casted a daunting shadow over the pharaohs themselves. This four-page … Read More

Posted On: Jun 17th, 2015 at 14:12

Egypt Personally I don’t drink alcohol, but many of you will be happy to know all you need is a few leaves to cure a hangover! These Hellenistic cures, found in an Egyptian town called Oxyrhynchus a century ago, also include a recipe for eye drops and surgical instructions on how to cut into an … Read More

Posted On: Jun 16th, 2015 at 15:04

Canada Strange that stories from countries seem to come in twos, but there you go. This time the oldest archaeological finds in Canada have been revealed. Under the sea, 120 metres down in Haida Gwaii, evidence of human occupation stretching back 13,800 years has been found at the bottom of the ocean. The area was … Read More

Posted On: Jun 15th, 2015 at 21:52

Canada An astonishing site in Alberta, unsurprisingly named “Canada’s Stonehenge”, contains a 5,000-year-old calendar according to researcher Gordon Freeman. His argument seems convincing enough and I’d like to look at the statistics in more detail, but as usual the mainstream refuse to accept his ideas – “Mainstream archaeology hasn’t been exactly welcoming. Despite being highly regarded in … Read More

Posted On: Jun 13th, 2015 at 17:29

Peru In Tenahaha, in the Cotahuasa valley in southern Peru, which appears to be related to the Wari culture, a ceremonial area has yielded several tombs containing up to 40 skeletons each. Totalling 171 so far, the area probably holds thousands of bodies within a hilltop above the town, dating to around 800 AD. http://www.livescience.com/50415-dozens-of-mummies-discovered-in-peru.html

Posted On: Jun 12th, 2015 at 13:37

Easter Island Yes, I did. And bloody big ones, too! Did you? http://mobile.news.com.au/travel/world-travel/archaeological-dig-reveals-that-easter-island-heads-have-bodies-too/story-e6frfqai-1226478668649?hc_location=ufi

Posted On: Jun 11th, 2015 at 15:25

Finally it has arrived! The new Stephen Maybury Travelogue has gone live! After a lot of hard work and technical issues, I can now promote the next phase of my work… and the reasons for this will be revealed later. Please note that only a part of the “Turkey” section has been completed, so when … Read More

Posted On: Jun 10th, 2015 at 20:43

Peru Near Trujillo the Triple Spiral geoglyph has been completely destroyed by individuals wishing to use the land for agriculture. This is a very sad incident and an ongoing problem for the cash-strapped archaeological organisations in Peru. The country is also so vast, it’s population relatively small, and there simply isn’t the logistical reasoning for … Read More

Posted On: Jun 8th, 2015 at 18:15

United States Evidence from an Alaskan house is proving once again that nearly all theories regarding the migration to the Americas and pre-Columbian trade or visitations from non-Europeans are extremely dubious. This particular piece suggests that ongoing trade between the Americas and what is now Russia and China was occurring regularly, and that we have … Read More

Posted On: Jun 5th, 2015 at 14:38

Greece The amazing Minoan civilisation in Crete, wiped out by a volcanic explosion on the island of Thera, is detailed here in this seven-page article. http://archaeology.org/issues/174-1505/features/3145-crete-minoans-gournia-excavations

Posted On: Jun 4th, 2015 at 13:27

The World “Ten of the best ancient ruins you’ve never heard of” http://www.theguardian.com/travel/2015/apr/06/10-best-ancient-ruins-cambodia-peru-china-italy?CMP=fb_gu

Posted On: Jun 3rd, 2015 at 12:14

Scotland It seems the tale of ‘tough’ Vikings could be a bit of a myth, and they were actually terrified of the Celts in ‘Skotland’. – “Icelanders who want to practise robbery are advised to go there,” says one saga. “But it may cost them their life.” – I’m always telling people to avoid Scotland! … Read More

Posted On: Jun 2nd, 2015 at 18:01

United States Back to my favourite native American. More studies have found that Kennewick Man ate a diet of fish, which means he chose not to hunt large game animals, and these were plentiful in the area in which his body was found. The article suggests he had, “some deeply-held belief system that caused him … Read More

Posted On: Jun 1st, 2015 at 14:45

Romania Stunning Dacian gold bracelets and coins that were stolen from an amazing site in southern Romania have finally been returned to their native home after two thousand years. The Dacians were a pain in the butt for the dominant Roman Empire but, after two bloody wars, they were finally defeated by the master military … Read More