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176 prehistoric caves discovered in Thailand Scientists have recently made significant cave discoveries in the Pang Mapha district of Mae Hong Son (Northern Thailand). A few of the caves will be opened to tourists but most will be preserved for research. The discoveries are the resul...

A pair of cave divers said Monday they have found subterranean passages in Mexico's Yucatan peninsula that constitute the world's longest underwater cave system. British cave diver Steve Bogaerts said he and Robbie Schmittner, of Germany, found flooded underground passages connecti...

Titan was discovered on the 1st of January 1999 and is the biggest natural shaft in the UK, standing at 141.5m (464ft). The choke through which it was found is a major feature of Peak Cavern's Far Sump Extension and has been known about since 1981 when Far Sump was first passed. Various divers investiga...

An ancient cave discovered in December in western France contains a rare find: a 27,000-year-old human skeleton in a painted room and a drawing of a human face. It was only the second time that a human body from the upper Palaeolithic period had been found placed in a cave with decorations. The s...

Prehistoric drawings found at Dunbar Cave. People will get the first glimpse of a "great treasure of North America" beginning today. A ceremony today at Dunbar Cave will mark the announcement and public display of more than 30 prehistoric cave drawings and etchings inside Dunbar Ca...

Archaeological excavations in Marvdasht Plain in Fars province led to discovery of a 10,000-year-old stone dwelling near Rahmat Mountain. Archaeologists believe that an advanced technology was used in the construction of the partition walls of this Neolithic shelter. "This stone dwe...

The bear that left a 3-foot-long claw mark in an Ice Age clay bank was the largest bear species ever to walk the Earth, about 6 feet tall at the shoulder and capable of moving its 1,800-pound body at up to 45 mph in a snarling dash for prey. The claw mark by the extinct giant short-faced bear still looks fr...

Four amateur cave explorers in Sequoia National Park have discovered a vast cave formed 1 million years ago, a labyrinth that stretches more than 1,000 feet into a mountain and features some of the most beautiful rock formations ever seen. Millions of crystals along its walls shimmer like diamon...

With lengths over 11m, the giant gypsum crystals found in Mexico's Cueva de los Cristales are a great natural wonder. Now, a Spanish-Mexican team thinks it can explain how these marvels acquired their immense form. The scientists studied tiny pockets of fluid trapped in the crystals and conducted...

A cave painting in the Lascaux Grotto in France dating back to the lower palaeolithic period - some 200,000 years ago, shows a figure that appears to be pinching his nostrils shut and pointing to a dog-like creature drawn without a nose. This may depict the oldest joke in the world. Latitu...

The Jenolan Caves in the Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia, have been discovered to be the world's oldest open caves system. Scientists from the CSIRO, the University of Sydney and the Australian Museum dated the limestone caves to be 340 million years old, using clay-dating methods...

From Herodotus and Homer to the warriors of Ancient Greece the mystic utterances from the Oracle of Delphi were regarded as sacrosanct. But now the hugely influential pronouncements of the oracle are said by Greek and Italian arch...

Israeli scientists said on Wednesday they had discovered a prehistoric ecosystem dating back millions of years. The discovery was made in a cave near the central Israeli city of Ramle during rock drilling at a quarry. Scientists were called in and soon found eight previously unknown s...

A sparkling subterranean crystalline calcite formation known as Snowy River is no longer a dry riverbed. Scientists say Snowy River, discovered in 2001, is now running with between a half-foot to a foot-and-a-half of water. The formation, which is not open to the public, was discovered by a U.S. Bu...

The public was given a rare chance to dangle deep inside Britain's largest known underground chamber, Gaping Gill, at the weekend. The Bradford Potholing Club winched more than a hundred people one by one into the cave through a pothole in North Yorkshire. It was a quick descent, taking visitors, wh...

A possible Palaeolithic engraving has been discovered at Cheddar Caves and Gorge by members of the University of Bristol Spelaeological Society (UBSS). This new find follows the discovery of presumed Mesolithic engravings at Aveline's Hole in Burrington Combe, Somerset and in Long Hole Chedda...

Discovering ancient Galilee's hidden shelters A pleasant coolness greeted Yinon Shivtiel when he crawled into the cave at Mt. Berenice, as did a poisonous snake. Shivtiel, a doctoral candidate in Land of Israel Studies at Bar-Ilan University, who teaches at Safed College, is used to being surpri...

Amarnath cave believed to be 5,000 years old Where exactly is the Amarnath cave? Amarnath is a 150 feet high and 90 feet long cave located nearly 145 km east of Srinagar. Located in a Himalayan glacial valley at a height of approximately 4,000m the cave has four ice formations, which are considered fig...

Cave extremeophiles (microbes that live in very difficult environments) have been the object of Hazel Bartons research for a long time. Barton, a professor of microbiology at Northern Kentucky University has visited more than 1000 caves in the United States, Britain, Greenland, Mexico, Belize...

Finding Caves on Earth, the Moon, and Mars Scientists are furthering the ability to detect caves on Earth, the moon and Mars by studying the conditions under which caves are detectable in thermal infrared. Finding caves on Earth is important for locating habitats of bats and other animal populatio...

Cave gives a glimpse of glacial history Kirkdale Cave is one of North Yorkshires most intriguing assets and although it is very close to Kirkdale Minster near Kirkbymoorside, neither of these ancient showpieces is within the boundaries of the North York Moors National Park. I find that quite surpr...

A cave once believed to be the den of two lions that killed and ate 135 railway workers in Kenya in 1898 may instead have been a burial site for natives who lived in the area, scientists said. The cave was discovered by Lt Col John H Patterson months after the lions began attacking workers who were buildin...

Priceless art dating from the Stone Age has been damaged in forest fires, some deliberately set, in northwestern Spain, officials said. Color paintings and carvings on rocks, known as petroglyphs, of wildlife and geometric patterns dating back about 4,000 years, have been charred and blackened...

Scientists return this week to the world’s deepest known sinkhole, Cenote Zacatón in Mexico, to resume tests of a NASA-funded robot called DEPTHX, designed to survey and explore for life in one of Earth’s most extreme regions and potentially in outer space. If all goes well with this second round of...

My latest tour took me around the countryside of the Argolid in the northern Peloponnese, north past the town of Kranidi, through the village of Fourni and west (left) from the village of Didima (or "Twins"), down a dirt track and to the Didima Caves. The Didima Caves are two large chambers...

Carving found in Gower cave could be oldest rock art An archaeologist believes a wall carving in a south Wales cave could be Britain's oldest example of rock art. The faint scratchings of a speared reindeer are believed to have been carved by a hunter-gatherer in the Ice Age more than 14,000 years ago....

The Areni-1 cave complex is a cave in the Areni village of southern Armenia along the Arpa River. In January 2011, the earliest known winery in the world was announced to be found in the cave. Read more

Ancient 'paint factory' unearthed The kits used by humans 100,000 years ago to make paint have been found at the famous archaeological site of Blombos Cave in South Africa. The hoard includes red and yellow pigments, shell containers, and the grinding cobbles and bone spatulas to work up a paste - ev...

UK's longest cave system linked Britain's longest network of underground caves, between Cumbria, Lancashire and Yorkshire, has been linked up after years of hard work. See more The Caves under and around Ease Gill on the Cumbria/Lancash...

Australian scientists have found the world's first fish hooks in East Timor. Today in the journal Science, they say the research shows people who crossed the open oceans to colonise Australia were also effective at deep-sea fishing. The remains of pelagic fish such as tuna were 42,000 years old, pu...

Japan's oldest known human remains found in cave on Ishigaki Island Japan's oldest known human remains have been found in cave remains on Ishigaki Island in Okinawa Prefecture, a researcher has announced. Minoru Yoneda, associate professor at the University of Tokyo, confirmed the human remain...

3,000 year-old human remains uncovered in Nepal What could well be compared to Shangri-La as envisioned by British author James Hilton in his 1933 novel Lost Horizon, recent findings of human history dating back to over 3,000 years in the caves of Upper Mustang have unravelled a significant portio...

The world's most isolated cave is home to 4 million year old "superbugs" Lechuguilla Cave has been completely isolated from the outside world for over four million years, making it one of the world's most pristine ecosystems. And yet it's full of bacteria that are resistant to modern an...

Dan yr Ogof, also known as the National Showcaves Centre for Wales, is a 17-kilometre long cave system in south Wales, five miles north of Ystradgynlais and fifteen miles south west of Brecon within the Brecon Beacons National Park. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_yr_Ogof]Read more[/...

The Cave of Swallows, also called Cave of the Swallows (Spanish: Sótano de las Golondrinas), is an open air pit cave in the Municipality of Aquismón, San Luis Potosí, Mexico. The elliptical mouth, on a slope of karst, is 49 by 62 m wide and is undercut around all its perimeter, further widening to a room...

Art, bodies found in ancient caves Archaeologists at the University of Wollongong will soon be collaborating on discoveries in a cave in Indonesia. Professor Truman Simanjuntak from the Jakarta-based National Research and Development Centre for Archaeology was at the university yesterday to...

Anthropologists have discovered a beautiful Greek waterfront paradise once inhabited by generations of Neanderthals up to 100,000 years ago, according to a new study. This particular population was based at what is known as The Kalamakia Middle Paleolithic Cave site on the Mani peninsula of sou...

'Biggest cave' is Calders Geo in Shetland at Esha Ness The biggest cave in Britain can be found in Shetland, a geologist has claimed. Jonathan Swale used a laser range-finder at the Calders Geo sea cave at Esha Ness. He said he found it to be 60ft tall and spanning a floor area of 5,600 square metres. Read...

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Archaeology Cave Prehistoric caves ( 1 2 3 4 5 … 6 ) (Preview)	Off Topic	54	28255	Jul 12 23:20 2012 by Blobrana
176 prehistoric caves discovered in Thailand Scientists have recently made significant cave discoveries in the Pang Mapha district of Mae Hong Son (Northern Thailand). A few of the caves will be opened to tourists but most will be preserved for research. The discoveries are the resul...
Cave River Longest underwater cave system (Preview)	General news	4	2633	Dec 19 13:01 2007 by Blobrana
A pair of cave divers said Monday they have found subterranean passages in Mexico's Yucatan peninsula that constitute the world's longest underwater cave system. British cave diver Steve Bogaerts said he and Robbie Schmittner, of Germany, found flooded underground passages connecti...
Cave Titan Cave (Preview)	Off Topic	1	1519	Nov 9 13:26 2006 by Blobrana
Titan was discovered on the 1st of January 1999 and is the biggest natural shaft in the UK, standing at 141.5m (464ft). The choke through which it was found is a major feature of Peak Cavern's Far Sump Extension and has been known about since 1981 when Far Sump was first passed. Various divers investiga...
Cave Vilhonneur Cave (Preview)	General news	1	2503	Jun 4 13:00 2006 by Blobrana
An ancient cave discovered in December in western France contains a rare find: a 27,000-year-old human skeleton in a painted room and a drawing of a human face. It was only the second time that a human body from the upper Palaeolithic period had been found placed in a cave with decorations. The s...
Cave Dunbar Cave (Preview)	General news	0	1177	Jul 29 19:42 2006 by Blobrana
Prehistoric drawings found at Dunbar Cave. People will get the first glimpse of a "great treasure of North America" beginning today. A ceremony today at Dunbar Cave will mark the announcement and public display of more than 30 prehistoric cave drawings and etchings inside Dunbar Ca...
Cave Rahmat Mountain Cave (Preview)	Off Topic	3	2393	Apr 22 09:01 2007 by Blobrana
Archaeological excavations in Marvdasht Plain in Fars province led to discovery of a 10,000-year-old stone dwelling near Rahmat Mountain. Archaeologists believe that an advanced technology was used in the construction of the partition walls of this Neolithic shelter. "This stone dwe...
Cave Riverbluff Cave (Preview)	General news	0	967	Oct 30 23:11 2006 by Blobrana
The bear that left a 3-foot-long claw mark in an Ice Age clay bank was the largest bear species ever to walk the Earth, about 6 feet tall at the shoulder and capable of moving its 1,800-pound body at up to 45 mph in a snarling dash for prey. The claw mark by the extinct giant short-faced bear still looks fr...
Cave Ursa Minor Cave (Preview)	General news	1	1437	Sep 26 00:20 2006 by Blobrana
Four amateur cave explorers in Sequoia National Park have discovered a vast cave formed 1 million years ago, a labyrinth that stretches more than 1,000 feet into a mountain and features some of the most beautiful rock formations ever seen. Millions of crystals along its walls shimmer like diamon...
Cave Cueva de las Espadas (Preview)	Off Topic	1	1837	Sep 24 10:23 2008 by Blobrana
With lengths over 11m, the giant gypsum crystals found in Mexico's Cueva de los Cristales are a great natural wonder. Now, a Spanish-Mexican team thinks it can explain how these marvels acquired their immense form. The scientists studied tiny pockets of fluid trapped in the crystals and conducted...
Cave Grotte de Lascaux (Preview)	General news	5	2633	Sep 11 22:51 2012 by Blobrana
A cave painting in the Lascaux Grotto in France dating back to the lower palaeolithic period - some 200,000 years ago, shows a figure that appears to be pinching his nostrils shut and pointing to a dog-like creature drawn without a nose. This may depict the oldest joke in the world. Latitu...
Cave Jenolan Caves (Preview)	General news	3	1986	Jul 6 05:40 2011 by Blobrana
The Jenolan Caves in the Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia, have been discovered to be the world's oldest open caves system. Scientists from the CSIRO, the University of Sydney and the Australian Museum dated the limestone caves to be 340 million years old, using clay-dating methods...
Cave The Oracle of Delphi (Preview)	Off Topic	2	1584	Feb 23 16:53 2013 by Blobrana
From Herodotus and Homer to the warriors of Ancient Greece the mystic utterances from the Oracle of Delphi were regarded as sacrosanct. But now the hugely influential pronouncements of the oracle are said by Greek and Italian arch...
Cave Prehistoric Israeli Ecosystem (Preview)	General news	1	1389	Jun 1 02:49 2006 by Blobrana
Israeli scientists said on Wednesday they had discovered a prehistoric ecosystem dating back millions of years. The discovery was made in a cave near the central Israeli city of Ramle during rock drilling at a quarry. Scientists were called in and soon found eight previously unknown s...
Cave River Snowy River (Preview)	Off Topic	1	1712	Jul 23 12:45 2008 by Blobrana
A sparkling subterranean crystalline calcite formation known as Snowy River is no longer a dry riverbed. Scientists say Snowy River, discovered in 2001, is now running with between a half-foot to a foot-and-a-half of water. The formation, which is not open to the public, was discovered by a U.S. Bu...
Cave Gaping Gill Cave (Preview)	Off Topic	0	1369	May 19 01:10 2008 by Blobrana
The public was given a rare chance to dangle deep inside Britain's largest known underground chamber, Gaping Gill, at the weekend. The Bradford Potholing Club winched more than a hundred people one by one into the cave through a pothole in North Yorkshire. It was a quick descent, taking visitors, wh...
Cave Cheddar Caves (Preview)	General news	2	1463	Jul 28 22:20 2009 by Blobrana
A possible Palaeolithic engraving has been discovered at Cheddar Caves and Gorge by members of the University of Bristol Spelaeological Society (UBSS). This new find follows the discovery of presumed Mesolithic engravings at Aveline's Hole in Burrington Combe, Somerset and in Long Hole Chedda...
Cave Galilee caves (Preview)	Off Topic	0	1207	Jul 30 23:11 2007 by Blobrana
Discovering ancient Galilee's hidden shelters A pleasant coolness greeted Yinon Shivtiel when he crawled into the cave at Mt. Berenice, as did a poisonous snake. Shivtiel, a doctoral candidate in Land of Israel Studies at Bar-Ilan University, who teaches at Safed College, is used to being surpri...
Cave Amarnath cave (Preview)	General news	0	1188	Jul 1 07:56 2008 by Blobrana
Amarnath cave believed to be 5,000 years old Where exactly is the Amarnath cave? Amarnath is a 150 feet high and 90 feet long cave located nearly 145 km east of Srinagar. Located in a Himalayan glacial valley at a height of approximately 4,000m the cave has four ice formations, which are considered fig...
Life Cave Cave extremeophiles (Preview)	General news	0	1324	Oct 1 09:56 2007 by Blobrana
Cave extremeophiles (microbes that live in very difficult environments) have been the object of Hazel Bartons research for a long time. Barton, a professor of microbiology at Northern Kentucky University has visited more than 1000 caves in the United States, Britain, Greenland, Mexico, Belize...
Cave Caves ( 1 2 ) (Preview)	General news	11	5601	Dec 31 14:36 2010 by Blobrana
Finding Caves on Earth, the Moon, and Mars Scientists are furthering the ability to detect caves on Earth, the moon and Mars by studying the conditions under which caves are detectable in thermal infrared. Finding caves on Earth is important for locating habitats of bats and other animal populatio...
Cave Kirkdale Cave (Preview)	General news	0	1191	Dec 13 11:34 2008 by Blobrana
Cave gives a glimpse of glacial history Kirkdale Cave is one of North Yorkshires most intriguing assets and although it is very close to Kirkdale Minster near Kirkbymoorside, neither of these ancient showpieces is within the boundaries of the North York Moors National Park. I find that quite surpr...
Cave Panthera Tsavo River Cave (Preview)	Off Topic	2	2213	Jul 20 22:09 2011 by Blobrana
A cave once believed to be the den of two lions that killed and ate 135 railway workers in Kenya in 1898 may instead have been a burial site for natives who lived in the area, scientists said. The cave was discovered by Lt Col John H Patterson months after the lions began attacking workers who were buildin...
petroglyphs Cave Art Stone Age Art ( 1 2 3 4 5 … 7 ) (Preview)	Off Topic	61	21182	Oct 26 07:28 2016 by Blobrana
Priceless art dating from the Stone Age has been damaged in forest fires, some deliberately set, in northwestern Spain, officials said. Color paintings and carvings on rocks, known as petroglyphs, of wildlife and geometric patterns dating back about 4,000 years, have been charred and blackened...
Cave Cenote Zacaton (Preview)	General news	7	5727	Jul 22 15:30 2010 by Blobrana
Scientists return this week to the world’s deepest known sinkhole, Cenote Zacatón in Mexico, to resume tests of a NASA-funded robot called DEPTHX, designed to survey and explore for life in one of Earth’s most extreme regions and potentially in outer space. If all goes well with this second round of...
Cave Didima Cave (Preview)	Off Topic	0	958	Apr 30 12:25 2011 by Blobrana
My latest tour took me around the countryside of the Argolid in the northern Peloponnese, north past the town of Kranidi, through the village of Fourni and west (left) from the village of Didima (or "Twins"), down a dirt track and to the Didima Caves. The Didima Caves are two large chambers...
Cave Gower cave (Preview)	Off Topic	2	965	Jun 29 14:40 2012 by Blobrana
Carving found in Gower cave could be oldest rock art An archaeologist believes a wall carving in a south Wales cave could be Britain's oldest example of rock art. The faint scratchings of a speared reindeer are believed to have been carved by a hunter-gatherer in the Ice Age more than 14,000 years ago....
Cave Areni 1 Cave (Preview)	Off Topic	1	960	Sep 14 18:02 2011 by Blobrana
The Areni-1 cave complex is a cave in the Areni village of southern Armenia along the Arpa River. In January 2011, the earliest known winery in the world was announced to be found in the cave. Read more
Cave Blombos Cave (Preview)	Trash	0	724	Oct 13 20:38 2011 by Blobrana
Ancient 'paint factory' unearthed The kits used by humans 100,000 years ago to make paint have been found at the famous archaeological site of Blombos Cave in South Africa. The hoard includes red and yellow pigments, shell containers, and the grinding cobbles and bone spatulas to work up a paste - ev...
Cave Ease Gill Cave System (Preview)	Off Topic	0	807	Nov 16 13:41 2011 by Blobrana
UK's longest cave system linked Britain's longest network of underground caves, between Cumbria, Lancashire and Yorkshire, has been linked up after years of hard work. See more The Caves under and around Ease Gill on the Cumbria/Lancash...
Cave Jerimalai (Preview)	Off Topic	1	1433	Jan 15 07:10 2012 by Blobrana
Australian scientists have found the world's first fish hooks in East Timor. Today in the journal Science, they say the research shows people who crossed the open oceans to colonise Australia were also effective at deep-sea fishing. The remains of pelagic fish such as tuna were 42,000 years old, pu...
Cave Shirahosaonetabaru cave (Preview)	Trash	0	892	Dec 7 19:23 2011 by Blobrana
Japan's oldest known human remains found in cave on Ishigaki Island Japan's oldest known human remains have been found in cave remains on Ishigaki Island in Okinawa Prefecture, a researcher has announced. Minoru Yoneda, associate professor at the University of Tokyo, confirmed the human remain...
Cave Kagbeni caves (Preview)	Off Topic	0	961	Dec 13 10:57 2011 by Blobrana
3,000 year-old human remains uncovered in Nepal What could well be compared to Shangri-La as envisioned by British author James Hilton in his 1933 novel Lost Horizon, recent findings of human history dating back to over 3,000 years in the caves of Upper Mustang have unravelled a significant portio...
Cave Lechuguilla Cave (Preview)	Off Topic	0	854	Apr 13 13:28 2012 by Blobrana
The world's most isolated cave is home to 4 million year old "superbugs" Lechuguilla Cave has been completely isolated from the outside world for over four million years, making it one of the world's most pristine ecosystems. And yet it's full of bacteria that are resistant to modern an...
Cave Dan yr Ogof cave (Preview)	Trash	1	1375	Jun 11 17:35 2013 by Blobrana
Dan yr Ogof, also known as the National Showcaves Centre for Wales, is a 17-kilometre long cave system in south Wales, five miles north of Ystradgynlais and fifteen miles south west of Brecon within the Brecon Beacons National Park. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_yr_Ogof]Read more[/...
Cave Cave of Swallows (Preview)	Off Topic	0	873	Dec 26 23:41 2012 by Blobrana
The Cave of Swallows, also called Cave of the Swallows (Spanish: Sótano de las Golondrinas), is an open air pit cave in the Municipality of Aquismón, San Luis Potosí, Mexico. The elliptical mouth, on a slope of karst, is 49 by 62 m wide and is undercut around all its perimeter, further widening to a room...
Cave Harimau Cave (Preview)	Trash	0	622	Apr 15 11:07 2013 by Blobrana
Art, bodies found in ancient caves Archaeologists at the University of Wollongong will soon be collaborating on discoveries in a cave in Indonesia. Professor Truman Simanjuntak from the Jakarta-based National Research and Development Centre for Archaeology was at the university yesterday to...
Cave Kalamakia Cave (Preview)	Trash	0	712	Jun 7 10:42 2013 by Blobrana
Anthropologists have discovered a beautiful Greek waterfront paradise once inhabited by generations of Neanderthals up to 100,000 years ago, according to a new study. This particular population was based at what is known as The Kalamakia Middle Paleolithic Cave site on the Mani peninsula of sou...
Cave Calders Geo (Preview)	General news	0	608	Aug 28 22:52 2014 by Blobrana
'Biggest cave' is Calders Geo in Shetland at Esha Ness The biggest cave in Britain can be found in Shetland, a geologist has claimed. Jonathan Swale used a laser range-finder at the Calders Geo sea cave at Esha Ness. He said he found it to be 60ft tall and spanning a floor area of 5,600 square metres. Read...