Grave of the king who laid foundations for Mayan civilization in 700 B.C. unearthed
Grave of the king who laid foundations for Mayan civilization in 700 B.C. unearthed This is the extraordinary grave of an ancient king credited with laying the foundations for the Mayan civilization more than 2,000 years ago, which has been discovered by archaeologists in Guatemala. Researchers said they uncovered the grave of King K’utz Chman, …
Burial of an ancient female warrior discovered in Armenia
Burial of an ancient female warrior discovered in Armenia A teenage Armenian woman was at the frontline of a war more than 2,000 years ago. Now her newly discovered remains allow archeologists to see how ancient societies lived and died on the battlefield. In 2017 researchers excavated the poorly preserved remains and found the woman …
Everyday Life In A Bronze Age Village Emerges In U.K. Excavation
Everyday Life In A Bronze Age Village Emerges In U.K. Excavation Must Farm, an extraordinarily well-preserved Late Bronze Age settlement in Cambridgeshire, in the East of England, drew attention in national and international media as ‘Britain’s Pompeii’ or the ‘Pompeii of the Fens’. The major excavation was funded by Historic England and Forterra Building Products …
Solid gold ring with the lord of rings inscription found in the field
Solid gold ring with the lord of rings inscription found in the field A gold ring engraved with a romantic message has been unearthed centuries after it was last seen. Amateur treasure hunter Morley Howard was metal detecting in a newly ploughed field in Highbridge, Somerset, when he made his discovery. The ring, with a …
Gilt-Bronze Burial Shoes Unearthed in South Korea
Gilt-Bronze Burial Shoes Unearthed in South Korea NORTH GYEONGSANG PROVINCE, SOUTH KOREA—According to a Korea Herald report, a pair of gilt-bronze shoes thought to date to the late fifth or early sixth century A.D. was found in one of three tombs at a burial site in Gyeongju, the ancient capital of the Silla Kingdom in eastern …
Norway couple find Viking grave under floor of their house
Norway couple find Viking grave under floor of their house A Norwegian couple got quite the shock when renovating their old family house near Bodø in northern Norway this month. After removing the floorboards and some sand with the intention to install insulation, the couple discovered several rocks. They continued digging and spotted something glittering …
Archaeologists Discover More Than 200-Year-Old Shipwreck In Mexico’s Caribbean
Archaeologists Discover More Than 200-Year-Old Shipwreck In Mexico’s Caribbean. QUINTANA ROO, MEXICO— BBC reports that an eight-foot cannon, anchor, and pig-iron ingots thought to have been used as a ship’s ballast were spotted by a fisherman in the Caribbean Sea off the coast of southern Mexico. The wreckage rests in shallow waters and rough ocean currents …
Archaeologists discover giant defensive minefield from the roman iron age
Archaeologists discover giant defensive minefield from the roman iron age Archaeologists have unearthed a mᴀssive structure in Lolland that is believed to have been used to ward off an attacking army back in the Roman Iron Age. So far, 770 meters of the structure have been detected. In 2013 a team of archaeologists from the Museum …
Found with a metal detector: 52,503 bronze and silver Roman coins in a ceramic pot
Found with a metal detector: 52,503 bronze and silver Roman coins in a ceramic pot The Frome Hoard is a hoard of 52,503 Roman coins found by metal detectorist Dave Crisp near Frome in Somerset, England. The coins were contained in a ceramic pot 45 cm (18 in) in diameter, and date from AD 253 …
1100-year-old monolithic sandstone Shivling unearthed in Vietnam’s Cham temple complex
1100-year-old monolithic sandstone Shivling unearthed in Vietnam’s Cham temple complex The Indian Archeological Survey on Wednesday exposed a monolithic sandstone Shiva Linga from the 9th Common Era during its conservation project. The structure was excavated from the Cham Temple Complex at the My Son Sanctuary of Vietnam. My Son in Quang Nam province of Vietnam …