Scientists Reconstruct First-evolved Plant Roots Using 400-million-year-old Fossil
Scientists Reconstruct First-evolved Plant Roots Using 400-million-year-old Fossil A plant fossil from a geological formation in Scotland sheds light on the development of the earliest known form of roots. A team led by researchers at GMI – the Gregor Mendel Insтιтute of Molecular Plant Biology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the University of Edinburgh, …
Israeli-Lithuanian Team Reveals Torah Ark at the Site of Vilnius’ Great Synagogue
Israeli-Lithuanian Team Reveals Torah Ark at the Site of Vilnius’ Great Synagogue In Vilnius, capital of Lithuania, an excavation of its former Great Synagogue has fully exposed the Torah ark and the podium that was destroyed by Nazi-Germany during the Holocaust. A joint Israeli-Lithuanian excavation expedition, using a ground-penetrating radar test at the site, announced …
Stalin-Era Mᴀss Graves Discovered in Ukraine
Stalin-Era Mᴀss Graves Discovered in Ukraine The remains of up to 20,000 people have been found in Ukraine’s southern city of Odessa as excavations continue at a site believed to be a mᴀss grave of victims of Stalin’s Terror, historians said Monday. According to various estimates, the bones of between 5,000 and 20,000 people lie …
Ancient humans could do some impressive things with elephant bones
Ancient humans could do some impressive things with elephant bones In a new study, University of Colorado Boulder archaeologist Paola Villa and her colleagues surveyed tools excavated from a site in Italy where large numbers of elephants had died. The team discovered that humans at this site roughly 400,000 years ago appropriated those carcᴀsses to …
Evidence of advanced Civilizations living on earth more than 100,000 years ago
Evidence of advanced Civilizations living on earth more than 100,000 years ago It only took five minutes for Gavin Schmidt to out-speculate me. Schmidt is the director of NASA’s Goddard Insтιтute for Space Studies (a.k.a. GISS), a world-class climate science facility. One day last year, I came to GISS with a far-out proposal. In my work …
Possible evidence for biblical earthquake found in City of David
Possible evidence for biblical earthquake found in City of David Archaeologists have found evidence of an earthquake that hit the City of David in Jerusalem about 2,800 years ago and that could be a major event described in the Hebrew Bible. During their excavations, the archaeological team, from the Israel Antiquities Authority, discovered a layer …
2,200 Year Old Alexander the Great Statue Discovered in Alexandria
2,200 Year Old Alexander the Great Statue Discovered in Alexandria The Ministry of Antiquities in Cairo has discovered a statue of Alexander the Great within an ancient “residential and commercial zone” in Alexandria that they believe was a trade centre in the region during the Ptolemaic period. The archaeologists made their discovery after 9 months …
A 400-year old ship has been found in the Baltic Sea
A 400-year old ship has been found in the Baltic Sea In June 2011, a Finnish treasure hunting company was scanning the Baltic Sea in the Gulf of Bothnia when “they claimed” their sonar captured what tabloid newspapers reported was “a sunken UFO.” While most scientists agree that the 2011 Baltic Sea discovery is most likely a …
2,000-Year-Old Roman-era Chandelier is One-of-a-Kind!
2,000-Year-Old Roman-Era Chandelier is One-of-a-Kind! A Roman chandelier, which is believed to be the last one remaining, has been reconstructed by Spanish archaeologists after they discovered it among the ruins of a workshop. The round lamp which was used during the Roman Empire to light up large spaces has a diameter of half a metre …
Oldest Circular Structure Discovered – and It’s Made of Mammoth Bones
Oldest Circular Structure Discovered – and It’s Made of Mammoth Bones Huts built from mammoth bones found along the Dniepr river valley of Ukraine (and also at locations in Moravia, Czech Republic, and in southern Poland) may be the earliest structures built by prehistoric man, and thus the earliest examples of architecture. Some of the …