Skeletal remains of half-cat / half-human now on display in Cairo museum
Skeletal remains of half-cat / half-human now on display in Cairo museum The remains of what seems to be a half-human / half-cat have been taken from the secret chamber of the great pyramid, recently uncovered, and are now exhibited in the National Museum in Cairo. Researchers from all around the world have come to …
600-Year-Old Buddha Statue Discovered In China As Reservoir Water Level Drops
600-Year-Old Buddha Statue Discovered In China As Reservoir Water Level Drops Lower water levels in a village in eastern China led to a shocking discovery the other day. What was discovered was an approximately 600-year-old Buddha statue almost perfectly preserved. The statue was discovered at Hongmen Reservoir in the Nancheng county of Jiangsu Province. It …
Check out this striking 25,000-year-old hut built out of mammoth bones
Check out this striking 25,000-year-old hut built out of mammoth bones Dr. Alexander J.E. Pryor, an archeological postdoctoral researcher at Southampton University, has recently published a research paper from Cambridge University Press. The members of his team claiming they have found the oldest man-made structure in Russia about three hundred miles from Moscow. No one …
Archaeologist Discover Paintings of Goddess in 3,000 year old mummy’s coffin
Archaeologist Discover Paintings of Goddess in 3,000-year-old mummy’s coffin In the coffin of an Egyptian mummy, paintings were found after she was taken out for the first time in over a hundred years. In the campaign to preserve Ta-Kr-Hb – pronounced “takerheb” – a priestess or princess from Thèbes, a Scottish conservative made this discovery. …
Railway Workers discover a 14th-century cave with medieval shrine or hermitage
Railway Workers discover a 14th-century cave with medieval shrine or hermitage An archaeologist’s team from Archaeology -Southeast, a member of the UCL Insтιтute of Archeology, explored a small cave with medieval carvings believed to have been dated the 14th century. The finding followed a landslip in the area of Guildford in Surrey and is considered to …
The Tarkhan Dress Confirmed to Be the World’s Oldest Dress
The Tarkhan Dress Confirmed to Be the World’s Oldest Dress This tattered V-neck linen shirt, currently on display in the UCL Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, is the world’s oldest woven garment. A recent radiocarbon testing conducted by the University of Oxford has established with 95% accuracy that the dress was made between 3482-3102 BC. …
387-Year-Old Shopping List Discovered Under Floorboards In Historic English Home
387-Year-Old Shopping List Discovered Under Floorboards In Historic English Home Such must-have items were listed on a shopping list 387 years back, including pewter spoons, frying cups and “greenfish.” Under the floors of Knole, a historic country house in Kent, England, a scrap of paper has recently been discovered. Jim Parker, an archeology volunteer at …
Kansas Archaeologist Rediscovers Lost Native American City
Kansas Archaeologist Rediscovers Lost Native American City A conqueror named Juan de Oñate led an expedition of 200 soldiers in 1601 into uncharted territories of what is today the state of Kansas. Along with the soldiers and canons, the group was accompanied by a number of priests as well as adventurers who were attracted by …
This 5,500-Year-Old Leather Shoe is the Oldest Ever Discovered
This 5,500-Year-Old Leather Shoe is the Oldest Ever Discovered The oldest leather shoe known to archeologists was discovered lodged in a sheep dung pit in a cave in Armenia, and is about 5,500 years old, according to a BBC article. The so-called Areni-1 shoe is an example of early, simplistic footwear which may have influenced …
A gigantic natural quartz crystal cluster was mined from the Colemans quartz mine near Jessieville
A gigantic natural quartz crystal cluster was mined from the Colemans quartz mine near Jessieville On a Reddit site on Sunday, almost two years after it was found in the Arkansas mine, a picture of 3.5 million dollars chunk of quartz was taken. This mine was and is the most productive quartz mine in Arkansas. …