Dental Tartar Yields Food Data from Japan’s Edo Period
Dental Tartar Yields Food Data from Japan’s Edo Period Rikai Sawafuji of the University of the Ryukyus, Shintaroh Ueda of the University of Tokyo, and their colleagues analyzed samples of tartar from the teeth of 13 people who were buried in what is now eastern Tokyo in the latter half of the Edo Period, from …
Text Found on Supposedly Blank ᴅᴇᴀᴅ Sea Scroll Fragments
Text Found on Supposedly Blank ᴅᴇᴀᴅ Sea Scroll Fragments Four fragments of the manuscript ᴅᴇᴀᴅ Sea Scroll, located in the John Rylands Library of the University of Manchester, which were previously thought to be blank, do in fact contain text. The finding reveals that Manchester University is the only UK insтιтution with authenticated textual fragments …
Controversial Claim by Geologist: 14 million-year-old vehicle tracks
Controversial Claim by Geologist: 14 million-year-old vehicle tracks An ancient civilization drove mᴀssive all-terrain vehicles around Earth millions of years ago – and the traces are still visible today – a Russian university scholar claimed. Dr. Alexander Koltypin a geologist believes that mysterious groove-like markings in the Phrygian Valley of central Turkey were made by …
What Are the Mysterious and Enormous Stone Spheres Found in Costa Rica?
What Are the Mysterious and Enormous Stone Spheres Found in Costa Rica? Many will be familiar with the opening scene of “Raiders of the Lost Ark” where a giant stone sphere nearly crushes Indiana Jones to death. While everyone recognizes the movie as a work of fiction, the giant stone spheres are not. While clearing …
The oldest submerged city: A 5000 old sunken perfectly designed city in southern Greece
The oldest submerged city: A 5000 old sunken perfectly designed city in southern Greece There is a little village called Pavlopetri, in the Peloponnesus region of southern Greece, where a nearby ancient city dating back 5,000 years resides. This is however not a typical archeological site, the city is located about 4 meters underwater and …
For the First Time in a Century, Norway Will Excavate Viking Ship Burial
For the First Time in a Century, Norway Will Excavate Viking Ship Burial Smithsonian Mag reports that Sveinung Rotevatn, Norway’s Minister of Climate and Environment, announced that the 65-foot Gjellestad ship will be excavated in order to protect what is left of it from being destroyed by fungus. Archaeologists are racing against the clock to …
Ancient Hunter-Gatherers’ Footprints Preserved in Tanzania
Hundreds of fossilized human footprints found in Africa could reveal ancient traditions CNN reports that Kevin Hatala of Chatham University and his colleagues have analyzed more than 400 footprints in 17 trackways at the site of Engare Sero in northern Tanzania. The footprints were found in volcanic mudflow that dried and hardened between 5,760 and …
99 million years old dinosaur-era bird wings found trapped in amber
99 million years old dinosaur-era bird wings found trapped in amber The new specimens come from a famous amber deposit in northeastern Myanmar, which has produced thousands of exquisite specimens of insects of all shapes and sizes Beijing: In a first, scientists have discovered specimens of complete wings of tiny, prehistoric birds that were trapped …
The Amazing Dinosaur Found (Accidentally) by Miners in Canada
The Amazing Dinosaur Found (Accidentally) by Miners in Canada This armored plant-eater lumbered through what is now Western Canada about 110 million years ago until a flooded river swept it into the open sea. The dinosaur’s undersea burial preserved its armor in exquisite detail. Its skull still bears tile-like plates and a gray patina of fossilized skins. …
The cache of Ancient coins and Jewelry From the time of Alexander the Great discovered
The cache of Ancient coins and Jewelry From the time of Alexander the Great discovered he explorers of the grotto in Israel discovered a small cache of coins and jewellery from the time of Alexander the Great that archaeologists believe was hidden by refugees during an ancient war. Eitan Klein of the Israeli Antiquities Authority said …