Researchers Return to Greece’s Antikythera Shipwreck
Researchers Return to Greece’s Antikythera Shipwreck The so-called Antikythera mechanism, recovered from the wreckage of an ancient cargo ship off the coast of Antikythera Island in Greece, might be the world’s oldest analogue computer. The mystery surrounding its purpose and origin continues to fascinate scientists and enthusiasts alike to this day. But it’s not the …
500-Year-Old Tomb Found in Peru
500-Year-Old Tomb Found in Peru Scientists have unearthed an Inca-era tomb under a home in the heart of Peru’s capital, Lima, a burial believed to hold remains wrapped in cloth alongside ceramics and fine ornaments. The lead archaeologist, Julio Abanto, told Reuters the 500-year-old tomb contained “multiple funerary bundles” тιԍнтly wrapped in cloth. He said …
Second Possible Seventh-Century Mosque Uncovered in Israel
Second Possible Seventh-Century Mosque Uncovered in Israel Three years after finding one of the world’s earliest rural mosques in southern Israel, archaeologists have found a second one in the same town. Both mosques were discovered during different stages of salvation excavations in the Bedouin town of Rahat, in the northern Negev, the Israel Antiquities Authority …
Aboriginal Artwork In The Kimberley Could Be Among Oldest In The World, Scientists Say
Aboriginal Artwork In The Kimberley Could Be Among Oldest In The World, Scientists Say Archaeologists and Aboriginal elders are hoping the most comprehensive study of rock art in the Kimberley region will confirm the images are among the oldest made by humans anywhere in the world. More than a dozen scientists took part in two …
700,000-Year-Old Stone Tools Point To Mysterious Human Relative
700,000-Year-Old Stone Tools Point To Mysterious Human Relative Someone butchered a rhinoceros in the Philippines hundreds of thousands of years before modern humans arrived — but who? by Michael Greshko, National Geographic Stone tools found in the Philippines predate the arrival of modern humans to the islands by roughly 600,000 years — but researchers aren’t sure …
Dutch Archaeologists Unearth 2000-Year-Old Roman Temple Complex
Dutch Archaeologists Unearth 2000-Year-Old Roman Temple Complex The excavation was carried out in the village of Herwin-Hemeling situated in the eastern central province of Gelderland close to the Netherland-German border, also listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site A 2,000-year-old Roman temple complex in Netherland was uncovered by Dutch archaeologists. The archaeologists belonged to the …
Genomes Offer Clues to Korea’s Three Kingdoms Period
Genomes Offer Clues to Korea’s Three Kingdoms Period An international team led by The University of Vienna and the Ulsan National Insтιтute of Science and Technology in collaboration with the National Museum of Korea has successfully sequenced and studied the whole genome of eight 1,700-year-old individuals dated to the Three Kingdoms period of Korea (approx. …
What Happened to the Waterloo ᴅᴇᴀᴅ?
What Happened to the Waterloo ᴅᴇᴀᴅ? Were the bones of fallen Battle of Waterloo soldiers sold as fertilizer? As very few human remains have been found from what was such a bloodied affair, killing thousands, it’s a conclusion that a new study suggests is most probable. However, publishing his findings today – exactly 207 years …
Bronze Age Fortress Identified in Ireland
Bronze Age Fortress Identified in Ireland A Galway archaeologist has discovered what he describes as one of the most extraordinary monuments of probable Bronze Age in Ireland. Michael Gibbons identified the large fortress, which is bound by turloughs or seasonal lakes, within the park at Coole, during fieldwork in the Burren lowlands east of Gort …
Mysterious Pyramids In The Amazon, Spotted By NASA Satellite In 1976
Mysterious Pyramids In The Amazon, Spotted By NASA Satellite In 1976 In 1976, NASA’s Landsat Satellite was orbiting Earth when it pH๏τographed mysterious dots in southeast Peru, at 71 degrees, 30 minutes west longitude in the Madre de Dios region of the Amazon. The satellite pH๏τograph, archived under number C-S11-32W071-03 showed a mysterious set of …