Log Boats Recovered from River in Northern Ireland
Log Boats Recovered from River in Northern Ireland History lies beneath the riverbeds of northwest Ireland. Every so often, when conditions allow, archaeologists are rewarded with another offering from the distant past. Two more boats understood to be from the medieval era, have emerged from the River Foyle. The boats, known as longboats or dugout …
The Search for Lost Royal Graves in Britain and Ireland
The Search for “Lost” Royal Graves in Britain and Ireland The graves of dozens of what may have been early British kings, queens, princes and princesses from the era of the mythical King Arthur have been revealed by a new study. It suggests that British royal graves dating from between the fifth and the seventh …
Cats and babies: Thousand-year-old mummies in Turkey’s Aksaray
Cats and babies: Thousand-year-old mummies in Turkey’s Aksaray Cat, baby and adult mummies in Aksaray, the gateway to Cappadocia with its historical cultural riches and known as the first settlement of Central Anatolia, have been enchanting visitors at a museum where they are on display. At the Aksaray Museum, which houses Turkey’s first and only …
1,000-Year-Old Gold Mask Found in Tomb Was Painted With Human Blood
1,000-Year-Old Gold Mask Found in Tomb Was Painted With Human Blood A 1,000-year-old mask discovered on the head of an ancient skeleton was painted using human blood, according to a new study. Archaeologists with the Sicán Archaeological Project unearthed the gold mask in the early 1990s while excavating an ancient tomb in Peru. The tomb, …
Farmer Finds 3,300-year-old Rare Hitтιтe Bracelet in Field in Turkey
Farmer Finds 3,300-year-old Rare Hitтιтe Bracelet in Field in Turkey A man ploughing his farm in Turkey’s central Çorum province discovered a rare 3,300-year-old ancient bracelet from the Hitтιтe era. The farmer, who lives in the Çitli village of Mecitözü district, found the bracelet while he was working on the farm and brought the ancient …
Study Explores Mobility in Early Medieval Scotland
Study Explores Mobility in Early Medieval Scotland Isotope analysis of ‘bodies in the bog’ found at Cramond reveals several crossed a politically divided Scotland, meeting their end hundreds of miles from their place of birth. For decades, the skeletal remains of nine adults and five infants found in the latrine of what was once a …
The first fossil of a daytime active owl found at the edge of the Tibetan Plateau
The first fossil of a daytime active owl found at the edge of the Tibetan Plateau An amazingly well-preserved fossil skeleton of an extinct owl that lived more than six million years ago has been unearthed in China. The fossil was discovered nearly 7,000 feet (2,100 meters) up, in the Linxia Basin of China’s Gansu …
Palaeolithic People in Mongolia May Have Consumed Giant Camel
Palaeolithic People in Mongolia May Have Consumed Giant Camel A species of giant two-humped camel, Camelus knoblochi, is known to have lived for approximately a quarter of a million years in Central Asia. A new study in Frontiers in Earth Science shows that C. knoblochi’s last refuge was in Mongolia until approximately 27,000 years ago. …
Neolithic Weapons Unearthed in Central China
Neolithic Weapons Unearthed in Central China A dozen stone weapons have been unearthed from a site dating back between 3,800 to 4,200 years in central China’s Hunan Province, the provincial cultural relics and archaeology research insтιтute said. The Sunjiagang site, located northwest of Dongting Lake Plain, dates back to the late Neolithic Age to the …
A 3,700-year-old burial site suggests female rule in Bronze Age Spain
A 3,700-year-old burial site suggests female rule in Bronze Age Spain Archaeologists in Spain have determined that the 3,700-year-old remains of a woman found beneath a Bronze Age era ruin may well be the first case of an ancient female ruling elite in Western Europe. The discovery at the La Almoloya site in Murcia, Spain, …