8,000-Year-Old Human Skeletons Found In Neolithic Village Of Slatina, Bulgaria
8,000-Year-Old Human Skeletons Found In Neolithic Village Of Slatina, Bulgaria Four Early Neolithic tombs, believed to date back 8000 years, were discovered by a Bulgarian archeologist team at the Slatina site in the capital Sofia, the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences said on July 28. There are skeletons of three adults and one child. Together with …
10,000-Year-Old Neolithic Figurines Discovered in Jordan Burials
10,000-Year-Old Neolithic Figurines Discovered in Jordan Burials From classical paintings of crucified Messiahs to Damien Hirst’s starkly grim tanks of pickled sharks, death is a subject that has haunted artistic imaginations throughout the ages. As it turns out, a trove of archaeological discoveries in Jordan suggests that death and an unusual process of digging up the …
Israeli archaeologists unearth 1,500-year-old Byzantine church
Israeli archaeologists unearth 1,500-year-old Byzantine church The remnants of a church of the 6th century — possibly a monastery — were discovered during an Israel Antiquities Authority salvage excavation in the Galilee town of Kfar Kama. The site adjacent to Mount Tabor is holy to Christians, who since the early Byzantine era have identified the area as …
Turkey: 3rd-century statue unearthed in the ancient city
Turkey: 3rd-century statue unearthed in the ancient city Archeologists have unearthed a 1,700-year-old statue of a female from the Hellenistic period in the ancient city of Perge, now in Turkey’s Mediterranean Antalya province. ANTALYA, TURKEY—The Anadolu Agency reports that a third-century A.D. sculpture of a woman has been unearthed at the ancient Greek city of Perge …
CT Scans Reveal Contents of Small Ancient Egyptian Mummies
CT Scans Reveal Contents of Small Ancient Egyptian Mummies As scientists peered under the wrappings of two small ancient Egyptian mummies who believed they were carrying human hearts, they were taken aback: Not only were there no noticeable hearts inside, but the remains were not even human. Instead of one mummy is packed тιԍнтly with …
42,000 years old Mungo Man skeleton, the oldest human remains found in Australia
42,000 years old Mungo Man skeleton, the oldest human remains found in Australia First, a skull, then a torso and eventually an entire skeleton emerged from the sands of south-west New South Wales. When the bones of Australia’s oldest and most complete humans were unearthed in the 1970s it rewrote history. Dubbed Mungo Man after …
The Medieval Book That Emerged from a Bog After 1200 Years
The Medieval Book That Emerged from a Bog After 1200 Years The book that emerged from a bog after 1200 years This is the remarkable story of a medieval book that spent 1200 years in the mud. Around 800 someones had a Book of Psalms made, a portable copy fitted with a leather satchel. The …
Roman Settlement Found in Cambridgeshire, England
Roman Settlement Found in Cambridgeshire, England One of the discoveries of archeological work in Waterbeach Barracks was Roman pottery and coins, along with Bronze Age PalStave ax-head. Before work starts on the first phase of the new town development, Oxford Archaeology East has been working with developer Urban & Civic and Cambridgeshire County Council’s historic environment …
The 7,000-year-old stone bracelet is oldest ever found in the world
The 7,000-year-old stone bracelet is oldest ever found in the world A Paleolithic man’s stone bracelet claimed to revolutionize our understanding of early human development. Scientific analysis suggests that the enchanting find is a 65,000 to 70,000 years old. It’s the oldest piece of jewelry of its kind in the world that experts believe to be …
Evidence for prehistoric human dismemberment found at Carrowkeel, Ireland
Evidence for prehistoric human dismemberment found at Carrowkeel, Ireland The ancient people of Ireland have provided new insights into the death rites. And they’re a bit disgusting. A little disgusting. The New Zealand University of Otago ‘s Anatomy Department has studied ancient Irish funerals. The results were published in the Bioarchaeology International journal. Dr. Jonny …