The Tarkhan Dress Confirmed to Be the World’s Oldest Dress
The Tarkhan Dress Confirmed to Be the World’s Oldest Dress This tattered V-neck linen shirt, currently on display in the UCL Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, is the world’s oldest woven garment. A recent radiocarbon testing conducted by the University of Oxford has established with 95% accuracy that the dress was made between 3482-3102 BC. …
387-Year-Old Shopping List Discovered Under Floorboards In Historic English Home
387-Year-Old Shopping List Discovered Under Floorboards In Historic English Home Such must-have items were listed on a shopping list 387 years back, including pewter spoons, frying cups and “greenfish.” Under the floors of Knole, a historic country house in Kent, England, a scrap of paper has recently been discovered. Jim Parker, an archeology volunteer at …
Kansas Archaeologist Rediscovers Lost Native American City
Kansas Archaeologist Rediscovers Lost Native American City A conqueror named Juan de Oñate led an expedition of 200 soldiers in 1601 into uncharted territories of what is today the state of Kansas. Along with the soldiers and canons, the group was accompanied by a number of priests as well as adventurers who were attracted by …
This 5,500-Year-Old Leather Shoe is the Oldest Ever Discovered
This 5,500-Year-Old Leather Shoe is the Oldest Ever Discovered The oldest leather shoe known to archeologists was discovered lodged in a sheep dung pit in a cave in Armenia, and is about 5,500 years old, according to a BBC article. The so-called Areni-1 shoe is an example of early, simplistic footwear which may have influenced …
A gigantic natural quartz crystal cluster was mined from the Colemans quartz mine near Jessieville
A gigantic natural quartz crystal cluster was mined from the Colemans quartz mine near Jessieville On a Reddit site on Sunday, almost two years after it was found in the Arkansas mine, a picture of 3.5 million dollars chunk of quartz was taken. This mine was and is the most productive quartz mine in Arkansas. …
Israel Archaeologists unearth 1,200-year-old mosque
Israel Archaeologists unearth 1,200-year-old mosque In an archeological dig in the mainly Bedouin town of Rahat, north of Beersheba remains of a 1200-year-old rural mosque, one of the oldest in the world was discovered. “The Middle East and the world in general and, above all, in the northern part of Beersheba, where a similar building …
Archaeologists Reveal the Hidden Horrors of Only Nazi SS Camp on British Soil
Archaeologists Reveal the Hidden Horrors of Only Nazi SS Camp on British Soil One of the British Channel Islands has a German concentration camp which has been a location for terrible atrocities, which have been downplayed in official reports after the end of World War II. Now, a new investigation reveals details that were kept …
Amber Fossil Shows Two Trapped Flies that Died while Mating 41 Million Years Ago
Amber Fossil Shows Two Trapped Flies that Died while Mating 41 Million Years Ago One of the earliest, fossilized animals ever found are a pair of fornicating flies that were preserved in amber 41 million years ago. The frisky insects appear to have been in the very throes of pᴀssion when they got trapped in …
Evidence of 90-million-year-old rainforest uncovered beneath the Antarctic ice
Evidence of 90-million-year-old rainforest uncovered beneath the Antarctic ice The well-preserved rainforest seeds, pollens and spores of 90 million year old (mid-cretaceous) rainforest plants in Western Antarctica have been discovered by an international team of paleontologists and geologists. The mid-Cretaceous period (115 million to 80 million years ago) was the heyday of the dinosaurs but …
Statue Fragments Found Near Cambodia’s Bayon Temple
Statue Fragments Found Near Cambodia’s Bayon Temple SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA— The large statue fragments have been recovered from a canal near the Gate of the ᴅᴇᴀᴅ at Angkor Thom by members of Cambodia’s Department of Monuments and Preventive Archaeology, the heritage police, and agents from the Apsara Authority. “The god statue found by the working …