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Archaeologists stunned to discover Britain’s A1 road is 10,000 years old
A team of archaeologists, who were working alongside the A1, the longest road in Britain, were shocked to discover evidence of a Mesolithic settlement which suggests the route may have been in use for...
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Qhapaq Nan, the Grand Route of the Incas, expected to get World Heritage Status
An ancient Inca trail is among the list of sites expected to get World Heritage status at a two-week UNESCO meeting currently being held in Doha. The listing of the Qhapaq Nan – a huge network of roads...
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Qhapaq Nan, the Grand Route of the Incas, wins World Heritage Status
An ancient Inca trail spanning six countries has just been awarded World Heritage Status, UNESCO announced on Saturday. Qhapaq Nan, as the trail is known, is a huge network of roads once used by the...
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Recent Textile Discovered in Nepal Sheds Light on How Far South the Silk Road...
Thanks to a recent discovery in Nepal, it is now believed that the historic trade route known as the Silk Road extended further South than originally believed. The Silk Road extended from China to the...
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The Pyramids Route: Was Knowledge of the Pyramids Spread by Ancient Castaways?
Jose Salvador Alvarenga was fishing off the coast of Mexico in late 2012 when a powerful storm sent his boat adrift. Marshall Islanders found the battered vessel nearly 16 months later, stuck on a...
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Dozens of Large, Mysterious Rings and Rock Piles Identified in Peru
Dozens of circular geoglyphs have been mapped by archaeologists in Peru, near the ancient town and archaeological site of Quilcapampa. The glyphs have been dated to between 1050 and 1400 AD, and are...
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Did Nomads and their Herds Carve Out the Silk Road?
Nearly 5,000 years ago, long before Marco Polo traversed the vast east-west trade routes of the Great Silk Road, nomads were carving the foundations for these trans-Asian interaction networks.Read...
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The Kjolur Route: Haunted Highway and Ancient Viking Shortcut in Iceland
Positioned on a desert upland in the highlands of Iceland, the Ancient Kjolur Trail gives a new meaning to the word “desolation.” This lengthy, winding thoroughfare, that leads visitors across an epic...
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Why Did Ancient People Travel Thousands of Kilometers for Incense?
In ancient times, people would travel thousands of kilometers across land and sea, along a network of trading routes, to acquire the precious commodities of myrrh and frankincense.The ancient incense...
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Bridging the Living and the Dead: Scotland's 300-Year-Old Coffin Bridge
The oldest surviving packhorse bridge in the Scottish Highlands, the "coffin bridge" at Carrbridge in Inverness remains one of the most significant. Built in 1717, this packhorse bridge is located near...
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When – and Why – Did People First Start Using Money?
Sometimes you run across a grimy, tattered dollar bill that seems like it’s been around since the beginning of time. Assuredly it hasn’t, but the history of human beings using cash currency does go...
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3000-Year-Old Earthworks Confirmed as Sun Worship Altar on China’s Silk Road
Archaeologists have discovered the remains of a 3,000-year-old altar to the sun in North West China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Experts say that the altar resembles the heaven-worshipping...
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Extensive Neolithic Trading Network Uncovered in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam
A team of archaeologists from The Australian National University (ANU) has uncovered a vast trading network which operated in Vietnam from around 4,500 years ago up until around 3,000 years ago.Read...
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Treacherous Trading: Dangers of the Silk Road
The Silk Road is arguably the most famous long-distance trade route in the ancient world. This trade route connected Europe in the West with China in the East, and allowed the exchange of goods,...
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Humans Took Pleasant Detours on the Prehistoric Route to Europe
New research shows that the environment is a key factor in mapping the prehistoric routes that humans took when they headed out of Africa towards Europe. More favorable climates enticed Homo sapiens...
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