Rare 17th Century Wine Bottles Worth a Fortune Unearthed in England
Rare 17th Century Wine Bottles Worth a Fortune Unearthed in England After being mistakenly dug up at a building site, a garden of Gold-encrusted 17th-century wine bottles will be auctioned at £ 20000 for the leading price. Seven ‘ extremely rare ‘ curved bottles of black glᴀss have been unearthed from the clay during construction …
The Curious Reason Europe’s Oldest Intact Book Was Found In The Coffin Of An Undecayed Saint
Europe’s Oldest Intact Book Is Discovered Inside the Coffin of a Saint After having been shut up inside a hermit monk’s tomb for more than 400 years, the oldest preserved book in Europe was found. The exhibition will be portrayed in the British Library, featuring prize manuscripts like the Lindisfarne Gospels and Beowulf. The show is …
30 Million-Year-Old Praying Mantis Is Preserved in Pristine Piece of Amber
30 Million-Year-Old Praying Mantis Is Preserved in Pristine Piece of Amber Inside a clear piece of amber, there is a small prayer mantis, frozen forever in time. The piece, which measures just slightly over one inch tall, was sold via Heritage Auctions for $6,000 in 2016. The pristine piece of amber, which comes from the …
Huge 300-Million-Year-Old Shark Skull Found Deep Inside An Underground Kentucky Cave
Huge 300-Million-Year-Old Shark Skull Found Deep Inside An Underground Kentucky Cave In the walls of a Kentucky cave, a fossilized shark’s head was found around 300 million years ago. Scientists suggest that it was part of a striatus of Saivodus, which existed during the Late Mississippian geological age between 340 million and 330 million years …
Rare, Neolithic ‘Goddess’ Figurine Discovered in Turkey
Rare, Neolithic ‘Goddess’ Figurine Discovered in Turkey The finding happened in the southern part of Anatolian Plateau in central Turkey, one of the main proto-city centres of the first settlers and one of the world’s most renowned archaeological sites. For a thousand years between 7100 and 6000 BC, i.e. the Neolithic period, Çatalhöyük has been …
Tombs of High Priests Discovered in Upper Egypt
Egyptian archaeologists unveil ancient tombs, 2,500-year-old artifacts Khaled El-Enano, Minister of Tourism and Antiquity, Egypt announced discovered the discovery of the communal tombs for high priests in the Tuna el-Gabal district of Minya, marking the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities ‘ first archaeological find in 2020. The communal tombs were dedicated to high priests of the …
Modern Africans and Europeans may have more Neanderthal ancestry than previously thought
Modern Africans and Europeans may have more Neanderthal ancestry than previously thought It has been revealed for the first time that African populations share Neanderthal ancestry, in findings that add a new twist to the tale of ancient humans and our closest known relatives. It was previously believed that Neanderthal genes were transmitted by only …
Archaeologists discover 4,800-year-old fossil of a mother cradling a baby
Archaeologists discover 4,800-year-old fossil of a mother cradling a baby The ancient remains of a young mother and a child locked in a 4,800-year-old embrace were discovered by archeologists. Of 48 sets of remains discovered from tombs in Taiwan, including five children’s fossils, this makes a remarkable discovery. The scientists were shocked to find the maternal …
The Siloam Pool: Where Jesus Healed the Blind Man
The Siloam Pool: Where Jesus Healed the Blind Man In Old Jerusalem workers have stumbled upon the ruins of the Siloam Pool, wherein John’s Gospel, Jesus cures a man who is blind from birth — the new find is praised as a discovery that helps to demonstrate the Bible’s historical authenticity. In the Los Angeles Times, …
Ancient wares with clotted cream clarified ʙuттer found in Mongolia
800-year-old vases containing frozen clotted cream and yellow ʙuттer found from glacial An anomaly of three clotted creams and one vase of yellow ʙuттer preserved in glacier about 700 to 800 years ago is discovered in the “Umard Mongol” joint investigation team of the National Museum of Mongolia, the University of Pittsburgh and the United …