Tomb Inscription Translated in Pompeii
Final Years of Life In Pompeii Revealed Through An Inscription Pompeii was a city that was buried in ash in A.D. 79 as Mount Vesuvius erupted, and many people that lived there died. But before that catastrophic event, Pompeii was a wealthy city, and it was filled with parties and struggles According to an inscription …
Archaeologists may have discovered the village where Jesus is said to have appeared after he was crucified.
Archaeologists may have discovered the village where Jesus is said to have appeared after he was crucified. In accordance with Luke’s Gospel. Following the crucifixion of Jesus, two of his disciples went to Emmaus, and a stranger walked by them on their way to the village, asked them what had just happened in Jerusalem. The …
Temple of Ptolemy IV Discovered in Southern Egypt
Temple of Ptolemy IV Discovered in Southern Egypt The remains of Ptolemy 4 Philopator’s temple were incidentally stumbled upon when an Egyptian archeological mission was digging in Kom Ishqaw City, Sohag Governorate. It was a nome in Egypt under the Greek Empire rule, earlier known as the Per-Wadjet. During an excavation in Kom Shaqao Sohag, a …
1,700-Year-Old Bronze Document Found in Roman Fortress
1,700-Year-Old Bronze Document Found in Roman Fortress For more than half a century, Warsaw archeologists have carried out excavations in Novae (near Svishtov). Every year their research presents more information about the life of the members of two armies of historic significance: the Eighth Legion of Augustus and the First Italian Legion. In Novae the …
The very first city ever established in human history recorded
The First City in Recorded History It is the oldest city in ancient Mesopotamia. It was located in the southern region of Sumeria (now Warka, Iraq) to the northeast of the Euphrates River. Uruk was an ancient city of Sumer and Babylon at one time. The ruins of what once used to be the great …
Ancient Gold Bracelet Unearthed in Estonia
Ancient Gold Bracelet Unearthed in Estonia Hobbyists of metal detectors feel lucky when they come across an old ʙuттon or coin instead of just the usual old nails or scrap metal. However, amateur hunters don’t even dream of finding the type of thing that set off Jegor Klimov’s metal detector in Saaremaa earlier this month. …
1,700-Year-Old Roman Bronze Vessel Discovered in Norway
1,700-Year-Old Roman Bronze Vessel Discovered in Norway Archaeologists do not every day have the opportunity to discover ancient objects in central Norway. Sometime in the Gaula River valley, southern Trøndelag, scientists report that about 150-300 CE a person died in the place now called Gylland. The remains were laid in a bronze vessel after the body …
King Tut’s Coffin Has been Removed from his Tomb for the First Time in History
King Tut’s Coffin Has been Removed from his Tomb for the First Time in History From the time that King Tutankhamun’s body was placed, the outermost sarcophagus had never left the 3300-year-old tomb. Even in 1922, following the discovery of the tomb by the British archeologist Howard Carter, the outer coffin made from wood and …
The Catholic church is ‘shocked’ at the hundreds of children buried at Tuam. Really?
The Catholic church is ‘shocked’ at the hundreds of children buried at Tuam. Really? Historian Catherine Corless was convinced that there — long-buried in a sewage system under the streets of a little town in Western Ireland — were the discarded remains of babies. Possibly hundreds of them. For years, no one believed her. Though, …
2,200-Year-Old Lion Statue Unearthed in Turkey
2,200-Year-Old Lion Statue Unearthed in Turkey In Turkey during archaeological excavations in the ancient Greek town of ᴀssos on the Anatolian shore, 2,200-year-old statue of a lion from the Hellenist Age and an Early Byzantine oven were found. ᴀssos, in the Ayvacik District, Canakkale Province, in Northwest Turkey, right across from the large Greek island of …