Author: Mary JL

Britain has still not returned thirty Stone Age statues that were taken for restoration in 1990. According to Daifallah Hdeithat, the head of the Mesha Centre for Studies and Human Rights in Jordan, the statues were supposed to be returned to Jordan within two years. These monuments date back to the Stone Age and were…

Archaeologists unearthed two ancient statues of deities in the ancient city of Kibyra in Turkey’s southwestern Burdur province. Kibyra,(or Cibyra Magna), was the main city of the Cibyratis region whose core was formed in the 2nd second century BC by four cities – Kibyra, Bubon, Balubura, and Oenoanda, known collectively as Tetrapolis. Kibyra was considered…

In Graeco-Roman tradition, Echidna is a hybrid creature, a gigantic half-woman, and half snake. As a tall, full of charm, and beautiful woman from the waist below, she was a hideous serpent.In other words – Echidna – described by Hesiod as an ‘impossible monster’ – is a remarkable creature and a mother of a pantheon…

Nearly 100 million years ago in the Australian outback, a hungry crocodile wanted lunch. He bagged something you might not expect a croc to devour. Scientists didn’t expect it either. It was the first time they’d encountered a crocodile having eaten a dinosaur, according to AllThat’sInteresting. The unusual find came in 2010 as a team…

How do fossils form? Fossils are formed in many different ways, but most are formed when a living organism (such as a plant or animal) dies and is quickly buried by sediment (such as mud, sand or volcanic ash). Soft tissues often decompose, leaving only the hard bones or shells behind (but in special circumstances the soft…

Bone hunters from around the world regularly travel to Dinosaur Provincial Park in the southern Alberta badlands — but the recent discovery of a hadrosaur fossil is causing a lot more excitement than usual. Calgary-based biologist and dino enthusiast Teri Kaskie was actually looking for Tyrannosaurus rex teeth when she made the discovery. Kaskie volunteers…

Archaeologists in Spain have unearthed a 2,100-year-old bronze hand that both astounded and puzzled experts. At the foot of a castle on Mount Irulegi, the invading ancient Roman army attacked and burned a town in the first century B.C. The town’s Basque inhabitants abandoned everything, the Sociedad de Ciencias Aranzadi said in a Nov. 14…

A perfectly preserved skull of an auroch, the ancestor to all cattle that graze fields after the middle ages, has been found on a UK beach by a professional musician. The discovery by Danielle Keys has now led to a spate of online offers since confirmation the skull belonged to an auroch. Male aurochs were…

The Altamura Man lived more than 130,000 years ago when ice sheets were expanding from out of Antarctica and Greenland. His fossilized skeleton imprisoned in calcite formations remained hidden from view at the bottom of a sinkhole near Altamura, a town in southern Italy, for many years. It was not until 1993 that the remains…

Mystery surrounds the skeleton of a mysterious creature that washed up on a Scottish beach during Storm Ciara. The intriguing beast was found on the Aberdeenshire coastline on Sunday as the country endured 90mph winds and torrential rain. A photograph of the creature was shared on a Facebook page prompting hundreds of suggestions as to…