Tom Metcalfe

The remains of a Japanese "hellship" that was torpedoed in 1944 and sank with more than 1,000 POWs on board has been found off the coast of the Philippines island of Luzon.

The wreck of a Japanese prison ship that was sunk by U.S. warplanes and went down with more than 1,000 Allied prisoners of war in 1944 has been discovered in the Philippines.

The discovery of two ancient holes at Stonehenge suggests people placed posts there to help observe the summer and winter solstices around 5,000 years ago.

Written by Tom Metcalfe on June 18, 2026 . Posted in Current News

The breakthrough could reveal previously hidden ancient human activity inside caves, acting as ‘genetic archives'

Evidence reveals that attackers laid siege to a city in Mesopotamia nearly 4,000 years ago.

Two studies of Neandertal remains suggest their newborns were about the same size as those of modern humans but developed faster through infancy.

The baths of ancient Rome weren’t just for bathing. They were bustling civic hubs.

The remains of at least 37 people sit in an ancient stone "jar." They suggest thousands of such vessels in Laos' Plain of Jars are burial vaults.

Sak Tahn Waax linked Venus, Mars and the Maya calendar in the eighth century