Excavation of King Khufu’s Second Solar Boat Completed in Egypt
Excavation of King Khufu’s Second Solar Boat Completed in Egypt Ahram Online reports that the excavation of the second Khufu solar boat discovered in a pit next to the Great Pyramid of Khufu in 1954 has been completed by a joint Japanese and Egyptian team of researchers. Sakuji Yoshimura, the head of the Egyptian Japanese …
Babylon knew secrets of the solar system 1,500 years before Europe
Babylon knew secrets of the solar system 1,500 years before Europe The ancient Babylonians were known to have been advanced in arithmetic. Now analysis of clay cuneiform tablets found in Babylonia and Uruk shows they could predict the position of celestial bodies using advanced geometric techniques thought to have been invented in 14th-century Europe. Specifically, the …
Old Football Found On Beach Turns Out To Be An Iron Age Skull
Old Football Found On Beach Turns Out To Be An Iron Age Skull Image kicking what you thought was part of an old football during a stroll on the beach – only to discover it was actually part of a human skull. That’s what happened to Anthony Plowright. He was walking his two dogs on …
Archaeologists unearth a unique artefact at Fort Michilimackinac: a pocket knife
Archaeologists unearth a unique artifact at Fort Michilimackinac: a pocket knife MLive reports that Lynn Evans of Mackinac State Historic Parks and her colleagues discovered a 3.5-inch-long pocketknife, or clasp knife, in a root cellar of the Southeast Rowhouse at Colonial Michilimackinac. A long-running archaeological dig at a historic Michigan fort turned up a new …
Neolithic Site Discovered in Western Anatolia
Neolithic Site Discovered in Western Anatolia Hurriyet Daily News reports that 11 sets of human remains dated to some 8,500 years ago have been unearthed in northwestern Turkey by archaeologists who were called to the site when residents found pieces of ancient ceramics in the yard of their apartment building. The site, likely to be …
A 51,000-year-old engraved bone reveals Neanderthals’ capacity for symbolic behaviour
A 51,000-year-old engraved bone reveals Neanderthals’ capacity for symbolic behaviour The toe bone of a prehistoric deer carved with lines by Neanderthals 51,000 years ago is one of the oldest works of art ever found, according to a study released Monday. The discovery is further evidence that Neanderthals — Homo neanderthalensis — were able to express …
Viking twin babies are found in Christian burial in Sweden
Viking twin babies are found in Christian burial in Sweden Live Science reports that seven Viking tombs were excavated in east-central Sweden ahead of a construction project. inside the tombs; they were likely Vikings who had converted to Christianity. “The Christian character of the now-excavated graves is obvious because of how the tombs were laid out,” said …
Possible Image of Roman God Unearthed at Vindolanda
Possible Image of Roman God Unearthed at Vindolanda BBC News reports that two volunteers discovered a piece of sandstone carved with an image of a donkey or horse and a naked man holding a spear at Vindolanda, a Roman fort along Hadrian’s Wall in northern England. It was found intact near a 4th Century cavalry …
Huge Objects Could Have Been Moved by a Lifting Machine at Stonehenge and Egypt!
Huge Objects Could Have Been Moved by a Lifting Machine at Stonehenge and Egypt! A history-loving carpet fitter has recreated an ancient machine to solve the mystery of how Stonehenge was built. Steven Tasker, 66, believes the long-forgotten machinery would have been used to transport the huge stones 180 miles. He came up with the …
cache of 80-million-year-old shark teeth found in Solomon-era site in Jerusalem
Cache of 80-million-year-old shark teeth found in Solomon-era site in Jerusalem Scientists have found an unexplained cache of fossilized shark teeth in an area where there should be none—in a 2,900-year-old site in the City of David in Jerusalem. This is at least 80 km from where these fossils would be expected to be found. …