4,200-year-old burial of Bronze Age chieftain discovered under UK skate park
4,200-year-old burial of Bronze Age chieftain discovered under UK skate park GLOUCESTERSHIRE, ENGLAND—BBC reports that two Bronze Age burials situated within a circular ditch were unearthed in southwestern England by a team including Andy Hood of Foundations Archaeology. The first burial, placed in the center of the circle, contained the remains of a possible chieftain, …
Studies of bodies buried 500 years ago in Mexico reveal stories of 3 African slaves
Studies of bodies buried 500 years ago in Mexico reveal stories of 3 African slaves The men excavating a new metro line in central Mexico City stumbled on a long-lost cemetery in the late 1980s. Documents showed it had once been connected to a colonial hospital built between 1529 and 1531—only about 10 years after …
New Virtual Reality Experience Transports Viewer Inside Spanish Paleolithic Caves Seen By Only 50 People In 16,000 Years
New Virtual Reality Experience Transports Viewer Inside Spanish Paleolithic Caves Seen By Only 50 People In 16,000 Years In the caves of La Garma mountain in Northern Spain, there were only 50 other people, a novel archeological site with one of the most important international collections of rock art and archeological stays in the Paleolithic age. …
Thousands of ancestors’ remains, sacred objects to return home to North Dakota tribe
Thousands of ancestors’ remains, sacred objects to return home to North Dakota tribe In a storage room at the University of Tennessee’s anthropology department, the remains of almost 2,000 Arikara and Mandan people rest in boxes, alongside the sacred objects buried with them centuries ago. There, 65-year-old Pete Coffey, director of the Tribal Historic Preservation …
A fossilized human footprint was found to be 500 million years old!
500 Million-Year-Old Human Footprint Fossil Baffles Scientists Hundreds of millions of years ago someone with shoes walked on an ancient trilobite. The amateur fossil hunter William J. Meister found a lifetime discovery 43 kilometers west of Delta, Utah, in the summer of 1968, he found a fossilized human footprint about the size of a US 13 shoe …
Utah family finds 16,000-year-old horse bones in the backyard
16,000-yr-old Ice Age Horse Found During Utah Family’s Backyard Renovation Laura and Bridger Hill dug their yard after embarking on a home building project But something surprising emerged into the soil when a portion of the earth was removed: a row of rib bones. That certainly wasn’t all, though. Following further investigation, the Hills realized …
Deformed ‘alien’ skulls offer clues about life during the Roman Empire’s collapse
Deformed ‘alien’ skulls offer clues about life during the Roman Empire’s collapse The multicultural change between local residents and migrant Romans is documented by researchers studying deformed skulls from an old cemetery in Hungary. Mönzs-Icsei dülő cemetery, founded in 430 AD and abandoned in 470 AD, in the settlement of Mözs near Szekszárd in the …
150,000-Year-Old Pipes Baffle Scientists in China: Out of Place in Time?
150,000-Year-Old Pipes Baffle Scientists in China: Out of Place in Time? In the province of Qinghai near Mount Baigong in China, there is a strange pyramid with three caves leading to the saltwater lake Below the lake bed and on the coast there are iron pipes of about 150,000 years old that are some as …
38 centimeter long finger found in Egypt left researchers clueless
38 centimeter long finger found in Egypt left researchers clueless Researchers are traveling with pH๏τographs of a mᴀssive finger which are said to be 38 centimeters long, as they believe it is impossible and can not exist. Although science suggests it’s impossible the finger found in Egypt is said to be true, and it has been …
Nomadic Warriors’ Remains Unearthed in Croatia
Nomadic Warriors’ Remains Unearthed in Croatia ZAGREB, CROATIA—Archaeology Org reports that the remains of an Avar warrior dating to the late seventh or early eighth century A.D. Archaeologists have been found in a tomb in eastern Croatia, near the site of the Roman city of Cibalae. The Avars were Eurasian nomads who arrived in Europe …