Austrian Federal Monuments Office now claims that a mammoth kill site was discovered in north-eastern Austria The site where mammoth tusks and bones, along with the remains of other large animals, were uncovered, is estimated to date back between 18,000 and 28,000 years.
As many as 700 ancient Egyptian artifacts destroyed in the fire that engulfed the National Museum of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro earlier this week; it is an 200-year-old building constructed as a palace for the country’s ruling family. The museum’s objects include an ancient mummy known as Luzia fossil given to Pedro II of Brazil, by Ismail Pasha, the Khedive of Egypt. Luzia lived in Brazil some 11,500 years ago, and now this fossil believed to have been lost to the flames.
Several graves dated to the Minoan period were unearthed in Petras, an ancient cemetery in north-eastern Crete. Archaeologist claim that the first grave, dated to between 2100 and 2000 B.C., contained the remains of a man who was buried with a bronze short sword, and a woman accompanied by a beads made of gold, silver, crystal, carnelian, and jasper. The second grave, dated to between 2600 and 2300 B.C., also contained hundreds of small silver and gold beads.