At Saqqara, five ancient tombs have been discovered near an Old Kingdom pyramid, the unfinished one of King Merenre I. They belong to high dignitaries of the 6th or 7th dynasty. The interior of the Iry vault, one of the five pharaonic tombs unveiled at Saqqara, on March 19, 2022 in Egypt. Egypt:f
A Danish maritime expedition has discovered a missing U-boat since the end of World War II, ending a 73-year-old mystery. Computer-generated image of Nazi submarine U-3523 found in April 2018 off the coast of Denmark by researchers at Sea War Museum Jutland. It is a submarine planted in the ocea
A new study suggests that prehistoric pioneers may have relied on shellfish to sustain themselves as they followed migration routes out of Africa during times of drought. The study examined fossil reefs near the shores of the Red Sea, now submerged, that marked prehistoric migration routes from Afr
In addition to being the first woman in history to obtain a professorship at the University of Cambridge, and coining terms such as Gravettian or chatelperronian To designate cultural phases of prehistory, archaeologist Dorothy Garrod made a sensational discovery in 1928. In that year she was excav