Greek Farmer Accidentally Discovers 3,400-Year-Old Minoan Tomb Hidden Under Olive Grove
Greek Farmer Accidentally Discovers 3,400-Year-Old Minoan Tomb Hidden Under Olive Grove Sometime between 1400 and 1200 B.C., two Minoan men were laid to rest in an underground enclosure carved out of the soft limestone native to southeast Crete. Both were entombed within larnakes—intricately embossed clay coffins popular in Bronze Age Minoan society—and surrounded by colorful …
Rabbit hole leads to incredible 700-year-old Knights Templar cave complex
Rabbit hole leads to incredible 700-year-old Knights Templar cave complex An outstanding discovery was made when a 700-year-old Knights Templar cave was found beneath a farmer’s field in Shropshire, England, in a complex known as the Caynton Caves network. The Knights Templar was a major catholic order which was popular during the Crusades and their name comes …
Eggshell beads made by hunter-gatherers 33,000 years ago used as a social network
Eggshell beads made by hunter-gatherers 33,000 years ago used as a social network New U of T Scarborough research offers physical evidence that ancient hunter-gatherers were exchanging ostrich eggshell beads in order to form large-scale social networks. The exchange of ostrich eggshell beads is thought to be the earliest example of social networking among humans. …
Scientists identify ‘mummy juice’ in an Egyptian sarcophagus
Scientists identify ‘mummy juice’ in Egyptian sarcophagus In Alexandria, Egypt, there was opened a mysterious black granite sarcophagus that dated back to the time Alexander the Grand invaded the city in 331 B.C., has been opened. The finding was believed that the huge sarcophagus contained Alexander’s remains at the beginning of this month and that …
S. Korea identifies 4 Korean War soldiers from remains found in DMZ
S. Korea identifies 4 Korean War soldiers from remains found in DMZ The bones of the soldier and its relics were excavated in arrowhead ridge in the central section of the inter-Korean border in Cheorwon, Gangwon Province, a region of heinous battles in the 1950-53 Korean War that is now inside the Demilitarized Zone. The …
Medieval Burial Cave Discovered in Gabon
Medieval Burial Cave Discovered in Gabon The finding of a burial site from the 14th century deep in the tropical forest of Gabon will demonstrate a little known period in Africa’s history. A cave located in the south-east of the country, which was discovered in 2018 by a French geo-archaeologist, contains hundreds of medieval artifacts with …
Alcohol Bottles Uncovered at Convict Station in Tasmania
Alcohol Bottles Uncovered at Convict Station in Tasmania In the structural remains of solitary cells of the convicts in Tasmania, archaeologists have unearthed hundreds of convict era artefacts. 160 prisoners took part in the construction of a highway between Hobart and Launceston between 1838 and 1847 at the Picton Road Station in the Southern Midlands. …
Teenage girl’s skeleton discovered in a mysterious grave near Egyptian pyramid
Teenage girl’s skeleton discovered in a mysterious grave near Egyptian pyramid The skeletal remains, hugging in the crypt, of a 13-year-old girl, have been discovered by Egyptian archeologists excavating the pyramid ruins 60 miles out of Cairo. It is a mystery how or when she died, though the experts say the site itself dates back …
90,000-year-old human hybrid found in ancient cave
90,000-year-old human hybrid found in ancient cave The idea of free love seems to have started even earlier than in the 1960s. A small bone fragment belonging to an ancient hominin called “Denny” by the team, who had a mother Neanderthal and a dad Denisovan-the two nearest extinct relatives of the living humans today, was …
Humans were in America 100,000 years earlier than we thought, study claims
Humans were in America 100,000 years earlier than we thought, study claims The remnants of a mastodon found in a routine freeway excavation in San Diego shows there was human activity in North America 130,000 years ago — or about 115,000 years earlier than previously thought. The fossils of the ancient mammal were revealed more than …