The Ancient Origins News Desk

Think Roman baths were pristine? New chemical clues locked in Pompeii’s “limescale” suggest some early pools were rarely refreshed - and may have been contaminated by human waste.

We all know what the perfect woman’s body looks like. Or do we? Is it Kim Kardashian, with her popular ‘internet-breaking’ big behind, or Marilyn Monroe with her voluptuous movie curves? Is it a powerful and athletic Beyoncé? What about the waif-like, angular fashion models on the catwalks? For thousands of years, we’ve been changing our minds about what the perfect body looks like.

It may not be long before Artificial Intelligence creates access to God via modern technology, however during the 19th century, a spiritualist by the name of John Murray Spear was inspired to build a Mechanical Messiah.

At the end of last year archaeologists in Scotland celebrated the rare discovery of a complete stone circle. Now, however, a farmer has come forward declaring that he built it himself in the 1990s.

Desperate scientists call for the help of the science world as a Pleistocene era ‘graveyard’ in Siberia is destroyed by ivory hunters.