Melting Ice Reveals a Lost Viking-era Highway in Norway’s Mountains
Melting Ice Reveals a “Lost” Viking-era Highway in Norway’s Mountains As the glaciers of Scanadvia melt, the long-forgotten journeys of intrepid Vikings are revealed. Reported in the journal Antiquity today, a retreating Lendbreen glacier in the mountains of Norway has recently revealed a mountain pᴀss used by Vikings over 1,000 years ago, along with a treasure trove …
A Lowa teenager searching for Arrowheads finds a 30,000-year-old mastodon jawbone instead
A Lowa teenager searching for Arrowheads finds a 30,000-year-old mastodon jawbone instead When hunting for arrowheads on an Iowa farm a teenager got a huge surprise. Instead of any arrowheads, the teen found a 30-inch jaw bone of a mastodon — a prehistoric hairy elephant, related to the mammoth. According to WHO-TV, a paleontology unit …
Scientists uncover a 60,000-year-old forest underwater and think its preserved trees may help pioneer new medicines
Scientists uncover a 60,000-year-old forest underwater and think its preserved trees may help pioneer new medicines Roughly 60,000 years ago, pre-historic human beings started to migrate from Africa and shared hunting places and cave residences with Neanderthal populations in what is today Europe. Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, a vast cypress tree forest carpeted riverbanks …
Israeli Archaeologists Solve Mystery of Prehistoric Stone Balls
Israeli Archaeologists Solve Mystery of Prehistoric Stone Balls For any man-made spherical object of stone petrospheres or spheroids are two archeological terms. Such, mostly prehistoric objects, were found intricately carved and painted, indicating they were deemed important to ancient people as far back as two million years ago. The balls of stone were discovered in …
Fashionable 2,000-Year-Old Roman Shoe Found in a Well
Fashionable 2,000-Year-Old Roman Shoe Found in a Well We all know the ancient Romans were skilled engineers, constructing vast highways to cover the enormous lands they conquered. But did you know they were also fashionable? In the Empire, footwear was used as a status symbol in addition to providing warmth and protection. And with Italy’s reputation …
Scientists Reveal a Perfectly Preserved 18,000-year-old Puppy Discovered Frozen in Russia
Scientists Reveal a Perfectly Preserved 18,000-year-old Puppy Discovered Frozen in Russia An ancient dog finds in Russia in the Far East that he lived a glorious eighteen thousand years ago. It was found last year in a frozen mud near the city of Yakutsk in Siberia and has been given the affectionate name of “Dogor”. …
Mᴀssive Stones Unearthed in Shogun’s Garden in Central Japan
Mᴀssive Stones Unearthed in Shogun’s Garden in Central Japan Eight mᴀssive stones, including one that weighs nearly ten tons, have been unearthed in the garden at Muromachi-dono, the so-called Flower Palace built by the Ashikaga Shogunate in A.D. 1381. The largest stone is nearly 3 meters long and one of eight, seven of which are situated …
Archaeological Sites Investigated in Northern Alaska
Archaeological Sites Investigated in Northern Alaska Archaeologist Jeff Rasic of the National Park Service has investigated archaeological sites at Howard’s Pᴀss, a several miles–wide tundra plateau located in the mountains of northern Alaska’s Brooks Range. The sites date back some 11,000 years and include traces of houses, tent rings, food-storage pits, tool-making debris, and cairns …
Uprooted tree reveals a violent death from 1,000 years ago
Uprooted tree reveals a violent death from 1,000 years ago The remain of a young man who died of what appears to be knife wounds sometimes between ad 1030 and 1200 was discovered tangled in the roots of a 215-year-old beech tree. A hurricane erupted over the wild Atlantic shores of northwestern Ireland and fell …
Synchrotron X-ray sheds light on some of the world’s oldest dinosaur eggs
Synchrotron X-ray sheds light on some of the world’s oldest dinosaur eggs In the most minor details, an international team of scientists led by the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa was able to re-construct the skulls of some of the world’s oldest documented 3D dinosaur embryos by using powerful and non-destructive ESRF synchrotron …