Rare Physical Evidence Of Roman Crucifixion Found In 1,900 Year Old English Skeleton
Rare Physical Evidence Of Roman Crucifixion Found In 1,900 Year Old English Skeleton Archaeologists in Cambridgeshire, U.K., have discovered what may be the best-preserved physical evidence of crucifixion—a 1,900-year-old skeleton with a two-inch iron nail driven through his heel. Originally unearthed by a team from Albion Archaeology during excavations in the village of Fenstanton in 2017, the …
Ancient Americans made art deep within the dark zones of caves throughout the Southeast
Ancient Americans made art deep within the dark zones of caves throughout the Southeast On a cold winter day in 1980, a group of recreational cavemen entered the course of a narrow, wet stream south of Knoxville, Tennessee. He navigated a slippery mud slope and a тιԍнт keyhole through the cave wall, trampled himself through …
Goodbye, Columbus: Vikings crossed the Atlantic 1,000 years ago
Goodbye, Columbus: Vikings crossed the Atlantic 1,000 years ago Long before Columbus crossed the Atlantic, eight timber-framed buildings covered in sod stood on a terrace above a peat bog and stream at the northern tip of Canada’s island of Newfoundland, evidence that the Vikings had reached the New World first. But precisely when the Vikings …
Chimu Farming Site Uncovered in Peru
Chimu Farming Site Uncovered in Peru An important archaeological find has been made by researchers from San Marcos University (UNMSM) in the Chicama Valley, located in the La Libertad region. A new archaeological landscape of the Chimu Culture —between 500 and 600 years old— has been discovered in this area. San Marcos University reported that …
1,600-Year-Old Flute and Key Unearthed in Turkey
1,600-Year-Old Flute and Key Unearthed in Turkey A 1,600-year-old flute and bronze ring with a key have been unearthed during excavations in the 3,000-year-old Zerzevan Castle, located in the Çınar district of Diyarbakır and which served as the last garrison of the Roman Empire in the east. The castle is on the UNESCO World Heritage …
Viking Longhouses Detected Near Norway’s Gjellestad Ship
Viking Longhouses Detected Near Norway’s Gjellestad Ship Norwegian archaeologists said Monday they have found a cluster of longhouses, including one of the largest in Scandinavia, using ground-penetrating radar in the southeastern part of the country — in an area that researchers believe was a central place in the late Nordic Iron Age. The longhouses — …
Human remains with golden tongues found in Egypt
Human remains with golden tongues found in Egypt Two golden tongues were found still inside the mouths of an ancient Egyptian man and woman who died over 2,500 years ago, the country’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced on Sunday. The idenтιтies of those interred are unknown, but the stone sarcophaguses were placed alongside each …
A 4.6-billion-year-old meteorite is the oldest volcanic rock ever found
A 4.6-billion-year-old meteorite is the oldest volcanic rock ever found A lonely meteorite that landed in the Sahara Desert in 2020 is older than Earth. The primaeval space rock is about 4.6 billion years old and is the oldest known example of magma from space. Its age and mineral content hint that the rock originated …
Researchers in Israel have discovered an intact chicken egg laid about 1,000 years ago—though the delicate object cracked in the lab
Researchers in Israel have discovered an intact chicken egg laid about 1,000 years ago—though the delicate object cracked in the lab Researchers in Israel have discovered an intact chicken egg laid about 1,000 years ago—though the delicate object cracked in the lab. “We were astonished to find it,” Alla Nagorsky, an archaeologist with the Israel …
Princely tomb of Iron Age mystery man discovered in Italy. And there’s a chariot inside
Princely tomb of Iron Age mystery man discovered in Italy. And there’s a chariot inside. A lavish ‘Princely tomb’ belonging to an Iron Age man was found in Italy full of treasures including a bronze helmet, weapons and a whole chariot. The tomb of a pre-Roman prince has been saved from ‘imminent’ destruction after aerial …