Tons of Giant Nephrite Jade Discovered in Canada
Tons of Giant Nephrite Jade Discovered in Canada In many colors jade is found in black, blue, orange, brown, cream, gold, white and lavender. The different types of jade include jadeite and nephrite. Nephrite is tougher and harder to break than jadeite material. The Polar Pride boulder was called the find of the millennium by …
Sixteenth-Century Wall Unearthed at Japan’s Gifu Castle
Stonewall points to Japan’s oldest castle keep built by Nobunaga This seems like another pile of rocks to the uninitiated. But stones unearthed here apparently consтιтute part of the oldest castle keeps ever built in Japan. The stones form part of the top section of the base of a Gifu Castle keep likely built by legendary …
Remains of missing World War II pilot from Benson identified in France
Remains of missing World War II pilot from Benson identified in France The traces of a Western Minnesota pilot of World War II who was killed 75 years ago during the D-Day have been identified. On Wednesday, the Defense POW / MIA Accounting Agency announced the remains of U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. William …
Farmer Digging a well find the Terracotta Army of Emperor Qin Shi Huang in China
Farmer Digging a well find the Terracotta Army of Emperor Qin Shi Huang in China When farmers Yang Zhifa found a piece of an old terracotta as he dug a well, he thought he’d stumbled on a disused kiln that could supply him with free jars. How wrong he was: it turned out to be the …
Greek Sponge Divers find the Worlds Oldest Analog Computer
Greek Sponge Divers find the Worlds Oldest Analog Computer When you ask someone who invented the computer they might say, Bill Gates or Steve Jobs. They would, of course, be wrong. Perhaps they might mention Alan Turing (who proposed a “Universal Computing Museum”) or the US Navy’s WWII era Torpedo Data Computer. But computers, which were …
Reburied Medieval Remains Unearthed in Norway
Reburied Medieval Remains Unearthed in Norway In summer, a somewhat unexpected traces of a large cemetery from the Middle Ages appeared in archaeological excavations in Kjøpmannsgata Norway. Excavation work in connection with new building schemes took place in Kjøpmannsgata in 2019. As with all new builds in Norway, an archaeological examination of the site in …
1,200-Year-Old Viking Runestone May Warn of Climate Change, Study Says
1,200-Year-Old Viking Runestone May Warn of Climate Change, Study Says Most people in the modern world are very worried about climate change and the Vikings seem to also be very worried about climate change. Scientists are now claiming that one of the most popular runestones, erected by Vikings, shows they feared a cataclysmic fall in …
Secrets of an astonishingly well-preserved 2,600-year-old human brain
Secrets of an astonishingly well-preserved 2,600-year-old human brain Experts who researched an iron-age skull brain of 2,600 years of old have found evidence to explain why it survived until modern times in a mud pit. The answers could shed light on the treatment of brain diseases, including Alzheimer’s disease. The brain, that came from a …
Ancient rock art at Carnarvon Gorge destroyed after walkway explodes in bushfire
The aftermath of fire damage to important rock art at the Baloon Cave tourist destination, Carnarvon Gorge, Queensland, Australia The ancient aboriginal rock art in the Baloon Cave in Australia can not be restored following the fire damage, caused by a recycled plastic walkway, ignited into a fireball in 2018. After the recycled plastic walkway, old …
2,500 Years Ago, Herodotus Described a Weird Ship. Now, Archaeologists Have Found it.
2,500 Years Ago, Herodotus Described a Weird Ship. Now, Archaeologists Have Found it. Herodotus may be considered the father of history, but he is not specifically proven to be accurate. Still, Dalya Alberge reports for the Guardian, the discovery of an ancient vessel that matches one described in the chronicler’s Histories adds weight to a …