Archaeology reveals how pandemics were handled in ancient African societies
Archaeology shows how ancient African societies managed pandemics In past cultures, archaeologists have studied diseases for a long time. To do so, they consider a wide array of evidence: settlement layout, burials, funerary remains, and human skeletons. We do not know, for example, that the damaging impact of epidemics prompted the abandonment of settlements at …
600-Year-Old Skeleton found beneath Edinburgh School Playground
600-Year-Old Skeleton found beneath Edinburgh School Playground A skeleton discovered in a school playground could be that of a 600-year-old pirate, according to archaeologists. City of Edinburgh Council workers found the remains at the city’s oldest primary school while carrying out survey work to build an extension. Victoria Primary School is close to Newhaven’s harbour, …
60,000 Mayan structures preserved under dense Guatemalan jungle
Lasers Reveal 60,000 Ancient Maya Structures in Guatemala Researchers have identified more than 60,000 previously unknown structures in northern Guatemala after extensive aerial LiDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) surveys. Their findings show that the region’s pre-Columbian civilization was “far more complex and interconnected than most Maya specialists had supposed,” according to National Geographic. Scientists mapped …
Amateur metal detector uncovers 22,000 Roman coins
Amateur metal detector uncovers 22,000 Roman coins An enthusiast of an East Devon metal detector has stumbled on one of Britain’s largest hoards of Roman coins ever discovered, prompting a local museum to launch a campaign to buy the “remarkable” collection for the nation. It is the fifth-largest discovery of Roman coins in Britain, comprising …
Extremely rare mᴀss grave of decapitated Vikings found in the UK
Extremely rare mᴀss grave of decapitated Vikings found in the UK Archaeologists made the gruesome discovery of 51 Viking corpses buried in the UK – with researchers claiming they may have been killed in sacrifice. Archaeologists believed that the violent killing happened 1000 years ago – the 51 skeletons had languished near Weymouth, Dorset. Oxford …
A hidden temple was recently discovered in an ancient Roman city that’s mostly still underground
A hidden temple was recently discovered in an ancient Roman city that’s mostly still underground The temple was once part of the city of Falerii Novi, which was abandoned more than 1,000 years ago and buried by time. Archaeologists recently mapped the entire town in remarkable detail with ground-penetrating radar (GPR) revealing previously unknown structures, …
10-Year-Old Boy Finds Centuries-Old Sword in Northern Ireland
10-Year-Old Boy Finds Centuries-Old Sword in Northern Ireland Fionntan Hughes, Ten years old received a metal detector for his birthday in July. Hughes discovered a centuries-old sword hidden about a foot underground the first time he took it out for a walk, reports Eimear Flanagan for BBC News. On the banks of the Blackwater River near …
Looters destroy 2,000-year-old Sudan archaeological site in search for gold
Looters destroy 2,000-year-old Sudan archaeological site in search for gold When last month a team of archeologists deep in Sudan’s deserts arrived at Jabal Maragha’s ancient site, they thought they’d been lost. The site had vanished. But they hadn’t made a mistake. In fact, gold-hunters with giant diggers had destroyed almost all sign of the …
1,000000-year-old artificial underground complex has been discovered
1,000000-year-old artificial underground complex has been discovered Dr Alexander Koltypin recently came out to state that the process through which we identify just how old a relic or a ruin really it shouldn’t be considered the definitive end of the debate as it is heavily flawed, to say the least. In most cases, there is …
Ancient mammoth ivory carving technology reconstructed by archaeologists
Ancient mammoth ivory carving technology reconstructed by archaeologists A team of archaeologists from Siberian Federal University and Novosibirsk State University provided a detailed reconstruction of a technology that was used to carve ornaments and sculptures from mammoth ivory. The team studied a string of beads and an ancient animal figurine found at the Paleolithic site …