10 tons of copper coins unearthed in 2,000 years old ancient tomb
10 tons of copper coins unearthed in 2,000 years old ancient tomb Archaeologists have unearthed more than two million copper coins from an ancient complex of tombs in the Xinjian District of China. The 2,000-year-old money, which bears Chinese symbols, characters, and a square hole in the centre, was found at a dig site in the …
1,400-year-old Byzantine Hammer and Nails Discovered in Ancient Jewish Village of Usha
1,400-year-old Byzantine Hammer and Nails Discovered in Ancient Jewish Village of Usha During a Sukkot holiday, some 8,500 individuals were participating in the IAA archeological excavations and activities, but none of them anticipated to discover the most closely ᴀssociated with building the Sukkah – the hammer and the nails – from the Byzantine period, about 1400 …
11,000-year-old ancient temple found in eastern Turkey
11,000-year-old ancient temple found in eastern Turkey In the form of the famous and controversial Góbekli Tepe, Archaeologists have uncovered a Temple from the Neolithic Age with 3 almost intact stelae. In southeast Turkey’s Mardin province, the ancient temple was unearthed in Dargeçit’s district of Ilısu, which archeologists say has now turned 11,300 years old. …
Nodosaur Dinosaur ‘Mummy’ Unveiled With Skin And Guts Intact in Canada
Nodosaur Dinosaur ‘Mummy’ Unveiled With Skin And Guts Intact in Canada A heavy equipment company began mining a strange colored stone at Millennium Mine in northern Alberta in 2011. His supervisor quickly realized that they had something special, Michael Greshko reports for National Geographic. He stopped looking more closely and puzzled the material, which had …
11,000-year-old Spiritualized Deer Masks Whisper Tales Of A Forgotten World
11,000-year-old Spiritualized Deer Masks Whisper Tales Of A Forgotten World The headdresses are the star exhibits in A Survival Story – Prehistoric Life at Star Carr which gives visitors a fascinating glimpse into life in Mesolithic-era Britain following the end of the last Ice Age. At the time people were building their homes on the shore of …
Frozen moss reveals fatal final journey of 5,300-year-old ice mummy
Frozen moss reveals fatal final journey of 5,300-year-old ice mummy According to a study released on October 30th, 2019, in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by James Dickson of the University of Glasgow (UK) and colleagues at the University of Innsbruck, Alongside the famous Ötzi, the Iceman is buried, at least 75 species of bryophytes -mosses …
7,000-year-old Fortress Found Under the Yumuktepe Mound, Turkey
7,000-year-old Fortress Found Under the Yumuktepe Mound, Turkey At the Yumuktepe mound in southern Turkey’s Mersin province, a fortress wall dating back 7000 years from the Chalcolithic period was unlodged. As an ongoing settlement 9,000 years since the neolithic era, the Yumuktepe Mound is extremely important. Two and a half months of excavations at the …
Spanish Armor Plate Discovered in North Carolina
Spanish Armor Plate Discovered in North Carolina, U.S.A Spanish soldiers took over the Native city of Catwba, Joara, about 60 miles east of Asheville, on an excursion from Florida about 450 years ago. Fort San Juan is the first known European settlement to be established in the south-east of the USA about fourteen years before the …
Well-Preserved Byzantine Church Uncovered in Israel
Well-Preserved Byzantine Church Uncovered in Israel The Church of the Byzantine Age was discovered by Israeli archeologists on Wednesday in a neighborhood west of Jerusalem. The Israel Antiquities Authority showed some of the objects of the almost 1.500-year-old church after three years of excavations. During this discovery, scientists found many sophisticated mosaics depicting birds, fruit …
Medieval pilgrim tombs found below Rome street
Medieval pilgrim tombs found below Rome street ROME, ITALY—BBC reports that medieval burials were unearthed during utility work on the Via del Governo Vecchio in central Rome. The graves had been damaged by previous construction projects. According to Archeological Superintendence the city found two graves dating from the Middle Ages during gas works on Via del …