Storms uncover precious marble cargo from a 1,800-year-old Mediterranean shipwreck in Israel
Storms uncover precious marble cargo from a 1,800-year-old Mediterranean shipwreck in Israel Numerous rare marble artifacts have been found at the site of a 1,800-year-old shipwreck in shallow waters just 200 meters off the coast of the Israeli coastal town of Beit Yanai. Approximately three weeks ago while swimming, recreational sea swimmer Gideon Harris took …
A 3,000-year-old Egyptian figurine sensationally unearthed in a former SS hospital
A 3,000-year-old Egyptian figurine sensationally unearthed in a former SS hospital In a stunning discovery, a three-thousand-year-old ancient Egyptian figurine of the god Osiris has been unearthed in a former Nazi SS hospital in the Lublin province. The figurine is part of a long-lost collection of antiquities that have been the subject of a search …
Roman Incense Container Unearthed in Northern England
Roman Incense Container Unearthed in Northern England Archaeologists working on a Cockermouth site uncovered some “particularly spectacular finds” in the final days of their nine-week project. The nine-strong team of experts has been working in riverside fields off Low Road and behind the Lakes Home Centre. The Ecus team, from Barnard Castle, was called in …
Neolithic Ritual Cache Discovered in Ukrainian Cave
Neolithic Ritual Cache Discovered in Ukrainian Cave Caves have provided shelter for humans and our predecessors for at least two million years. They served as dwellings, hiding places, possibly shrines, and for the last 50,000 years, as a canvas for our art. Now new discoveries in the uninviting Verteba Cave in Ukraine bring us a …
Staging of religion on rock paintings that are thousands of years old in southern Egypt desert
Staging of religion on rock paintings that are thousands of years old in southern Egypt desert Egyptologists at the University of Bonn and the University of Aswan want to systematically record hundreds of petroglyphs and inscriptions dating from the Neolithic to the Arab period and document them in a database. The desert in southern Egypt …
Some of the first humans in the Americas came from China, study finds
Some of the first humans in the Americas came from China, study finds Some of the first humans to arrive in the Americas included people from what is now China, who arrived in two distinct migrations during and after the last ice age, a new genetics study has found. “Our findings indicate that besides the …
Excavations Continue in Middle Egypt’s Meir Necropolis
Excavations Continue in Middle Egypt’s Meir Necropolis An Egyptian archaeological mission has uncovered a collection of structure relics from the Byzantine and Late Period in Meir Necropolis in the ᴀssiut governorate. The mission discovered the large remains of structures on two levels, with the upper level consisting of monks’ cells with a court and a …
Emma Watson cuts casual look as she lands at New York airport
Fresh-faced Emma Watson cuts a super casual figure in patterned cape and oversized scarf as she jets into New York She has recently come under fire after…
What’s the oldest known case of cancer in humans?
What’s the oldest known case of cancer in humans? Cancer may seem like a modern disease, but it has affected humans for eons. Scientists have discovered numerous prehistoric human remains indicating the presence of cancer. So, what’s the earliest case of cancer on record? And what’s the first time that humans wrote about it in …
Archaeologists 3D map Red Lily Lagoon, the hidden Northern Territory landscape where first Australians lived more than 60,000 years ago
Archaeologists 3D map Red Lily Lagoon, the hidden Northern Territory landscape where first Australians lived more than 60,000 years ago Archaeologists map Red Lily Lagoon, a hidden landscape in the Northern Territory where the first Australians lived more than 60,000 years ago. Red Lily Lagoon in West Arnhem Land sits more than 40 kilometers inland, …