Out of place artifacts

In 1888, seven skeletons were reportedly found in a burial mound just outside Clearwater Minnesota. All of the skeletons were anatomically ...

The Lanzhou Stone is imbedded with a screw-threaded metal bar and is suspected of being from outer space. Mr. Zhilin Wang found this stone on a field research trip to the Mazong Mountain area located on the border of Gansu and Xijiang provinces.

Skeletons from one of the world’s oldest civilizations—the Indus Valley or Harappan Civilization—have been unearthed in India. Scientists hope to be able to examine their genetic makeup to learn more about these ancient people. The Indus Valley Civilization of India, Afghanistan and Pakistan covered about 2 million square miles (5.2 million square km) at its height and was extant from about 4500 to 1800 BC.

???????: In June 1936 Max Hahn & his wife Emma were on a walk when they noticed a rock with wood protruding from its core. They decided to take the oddity home and later cracked it open with a hammer and a chisel.The rock encasing the hammer was dated back more than 400 million year; the hammer itself turned out to be more than 500 million years old. The hammer’s head, made of more than 96% iron, is far more pure than anything nature could have achieved without an assist from modern…

Every year archaeologists increasingly find artifacts that are difficult to explain! Some of them are not only difficult, sometimes even impossible. Indeed, thousands and millions of years ago, our ancestors did not know how to produce metal, they did not have modern technologies that would allow th

History isn't just about the past. By learning about those distant people and events, we also understand what shaped the present.

Gobekli Tepe is hailed as one of the greatest archeological discoveries that have ever been unearthed, and this is why it's so significant.

In Delhi India there is an Iron Pillar that has completely defied metallurgists by remaining absolutely rust free for the last 1600 years, e...

Over on Reddit, people are asking internet strangers for help identifying mysterious and strange historical objects they found in the most mundane places. From spiky, sinister scissors, to historical artifacts that need a bit of explaining, here are a few odd objects that needed identification.