Modern crocodile’s ‘grandfather,’ 150 million years old, discovered in Chile fossil
Modern crocodile’s ‘grandfather,’ 150 million years old, discovered in Chile fossil A 150-million-year-old fossilized skeleton discovered in the mountains of southern Chile was determined to be the ancestor of the modern crocodile, the Argentine Museum of Natural Sciences announced on Friday. The species, named Burkesuchus mallingrandensis, was found in 2014 in an Andean fossil deposit near …
Archaeologists discover a 6th-century coin hoard in ancient Phanagoria
Archaeologists discover a 6th-century coin hoard in ancient Phanagoria “Treasures are not often found,” explains Vladimir Kuznetsov, head of the Phanagoria archaeological expedition of the Insтιтute of Archeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences. “As a rule, they are evidence of catastrophic events in people’s lives, as a result of which the one who hid …
Arkaim: Stonehenge of Russia and its Unspeakable Secrets
Arkaim: Stonehenge of Russia and its Unspeakable Secrets Who in his life had never heard of Stonehenge? An enigmatic prehistoric monument north of the city of Salisbury, England, for more than 5,000 years, today it is a place that continues to develop speculation and theories beyond rationality. The terrain was excavated, radiographed, measured and examined. …
Discovery at Dartmoor mine rewriting more than 1,000 year’s worth of history
Discovery at Dartmoor mine rewriting more than 1,000 year’s worth of history A new discovery at a Dartmoor mine in England dates human activity there back potentially by more than 1,000 years. Initial examination of waste deposits at Kelly Mine, an iron ore mine near Lustleigh, reveals that iron-smelting occurred there far earlier than the …
Mexico to bury archaeological find because of virus costs
Mexico to bury archaeological find because of virus costs In a strange turn of events, researchers in Mexico have announced they plan to rebury an unusual archaeological monument found in the outskirts of Mexico City – covering up an important historical discovery until some unknown time in the future. The discovery in question is a …
Inscription With Image of Babylonian King Found in Saudi Arabia
Inscription With Image of Babylonian King Found in Saudi Arabia A 2,550-year-old inscription, written in the name of Nabonidus, the last king of Babylon, has been discovered carved on basalt stone in northern Saudi Arabia, the Saudi Commission for Tourism and National Heritage recently announced. An engraving at the top of the inscription shows King …
Ancient Roman Road Discovered at the Bottom of Venice Lagoon
Ancient Roman Road Discovered at the Bottom of Venice Lagoon In the Venice lagoon, an ancient and now submerged road was unearthed in a location that would have been accessible by land 2,000 years ago during the Roman era. Fantina Madricardo at the Marine Science Insтιтute in Venice and her colleagues made the discovery after mapping …
Humans Lived in North America 130,000 Years Ago, Study Claims
Humans Lived in North America 130,000 Years Ago, Study Claims Three years ago, a team of archaeologists in the United States proposed an extraordinary idea: the first human settlers in the Americas arrived at least 100,000 years earlier than we thought. The evidence came from a collection of mastodon bones and ancient stones dating back …
Traces of ancient rainforest in Antarctica point to a warmer prehistoric world
Traces of ancient rainforest in Antarctica point to a warmer prehistoric world According to fossil roots, pollen, and spores recently found in West Antarctica, a thriving temperate rainforest existed around 90 million years ago. The world was a different place back then. During the middle of the Cretaceous period (145 million to 65 million years …
Scientists decode how ropes were made 40,000 years ago
Scientists decode how ropes were made 40,000 years ago Prof. Nicholas Conard and members of his team, present the discovery of a tool used to make rope in today‘s edition of the journal: Archäologische Ausgrabungen Baden-Württemberg. Rope and twine are critical components in the technology of mobile hunters and gatherers. In exceptional cases impressions of …