Neolithic Seawall Discovered in Mediterranean Waters

Neolithic Seawall Discovered in Mediterranean Waters

Neolithic Seawall Discovered in Mediterranean Waters Scientists have discovered an ancient seawall constructed by the Neolithic people to protect their village from a sea-level rise over 7,000 years ago. This wall, which is 330 meters off the Carmel coast of Israel, had been constructed over a mile of riverbed stone, in order to build a barrier …

Possible 16th-Century Spanish Anchors Found Near Mexico

Possible 16th-Century Spanish Anchors Found Near Mexico

Possible 16th-Century Spanish Anchors Found Near Mexico The exact location where the anchors were found was when the Spanish Conquistador Hernan Cortes was sinking his ships in order to prevent a return to Cuba by opposing the leaders of his army. Anchor studies have shown that their morphology places the anchors to the 16th century. Their orientation …

Roman Fort Discovered Hidden Beneath English Bus Station

Roman Fort Discovered Hidden Beneath English Bus Station

Roman Fort Discovered Hidden Beneath English Bus Station The local town council reported that archeologists surveying Exeter, England, a bus station had found evidence of a defensive fort dating back to Britain’s Roman conquest. Per a press release, workers excavating the structure—built during the early 1960s and scheduled to be replaced by a new station and accompanying leisure …

Scientists Reawaken Cells From a 28,000-Year-Old Mammoth

Scientists Reawaken Cells From a 28,000-Year-Old Mammoth

Scientists Reawaken Cells From a 28,000-Year-Old Mammoth Her name is Yuka: an ancient woolly mammoth that last lived some 28,000 years ago, before becoming mummified in the frozen permafrost wastelands of northern Siberia. But now that icy tomb is no longer the end of Yuka’s story. The mammoth’s well-preserved remains were discovered in 2010, and scientists in …

Eighteenth-Century Wooden Railway Unearthed in Scotland

Eighteenth-Century Wooden Railway Unearthed in Scotland

Eighteenth-Century Wooden Railway Unearthed in Scotland The first railway track in Scotland is expected to undergo extensive archeological exploration next year. In June this year, in an excavation, wooden rails were discovered from 297-year-old Tranent Cockenzie Waggonway. Part of a cobbled horse track for the ponies which pulled the wagons up to coal pits at …

The Statue of Lady Sennuwy of Asyut Emerges from the ground at Kerma Sudan in 1913

The Statue of Lady Sennuwy of Asyut Emerges from the ground at Kerma Sudan in 1913

The Statue of Lady Sennuwy of Asyut Emerges from the ground at Kerma Sudan in 1913 The flourishing, wealthy empires of Nubia have lined the nile in Southern Egypt and Sudan more than a thousand years before Jesus. A century ago, in partnership with Harvard University, the Boston archeologist George Reisner, Made an excavation in …

Stone Age chewing gum yields 5,700-year-old human genome and oral microbiome

Stone Age chewing gum yields 5,700-year-old human genome and oral microbiome

Stone Age “chewing gum” yields 5,700-year-old human genome and oral microbiome Experts of the University of Copenhagen have been able to extract a complete human genome from a “chewing gum” which is thousands of years old. It’s a new untapped source of ancient DNA, according to the researchers Archaeologists found a “chewing gum” type of …

Egypt: Experts discover pharaoh’s boat in perfect condition

Egypt: Experts discover pharaoh’s boat in perfect condition

Egypt: Experts discover pharaoh’s boat in perfect condition Archeologists of Egypt uncovered a boat claimed to have been “perfectly preserved” by Pharaoh Khufu himself, which led to verified theories of how ancient civilization constructed their wonders. Probably the most famous and well known of Egypt’s many ancient landmarks and includes the Great Pyramid of Giza, the …

Small Sphinx Uncovered at Egypt’s Necropolis of Khumun

Small Sphinx Uncovered at Egypt’s Necropolis of Khumun

Small Sphinx Uncovered at Egypt’s Necropolis of Khumun On Saturday, 14 December in the archeological area of Tuna El-Gebel at Minya, Upper Egypt, a small royal statue of a sphinx was uncovered. The recently found sphinx of limestone stone has been revealed by SayedAbdel-Malek’s Egyptian Archeological Team. Middle Egypt’s Director General of Antiquities Gamal El-Samastawy said …

Female Remains Found at Strictly Male-only Greek Monastery

Female Remains Found at Strictly Male-only Greek Monastery

Female Remains Found at Strictly Male-only Greek Monastery The Guardian reported that American anthropologist Laura Wynn-Antikas was asked to investigate some bones found in the burial site while the church of St. Athanasius was restored on Mount Athos, only to declare they were those of a female. The surprise ᴀssessment is surprising for the centuries-old strictly male monastic community where women even today, are not permitted to access the peninsula …