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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 …
A Kiln That Fired Millions of Clay Pipes Was Unearthed Under a Montreal Bridge
A Kiln That Fired Millions of Clay Pipes Was Unearthed Under a Montreal Bridge A bustling pipe-making district at the intersection of four Montreal neighborhoods catered to Canadians in need of a tobacco fix, during the 19th Century. The leading Henderson pipe plant manufactured millions of pipes each year was one of the manufacturers operating in the …
These Mysterious Geoglyphs in Jordan Are 6,000 Years Older Than Peru’s Nazca Lines
These Mysterious Geoglyphs in Jordan Are 6,000 Years Older Than Peru’s Nazca Lines Although the finished product of giant earth designs has been difficult to discern, archeologists recently announced that at least some of the great “works of old men” (as the Bedouin called them in 1927) of the Middle East are significantly older than …