10-Year-Old Boy Finds Centuries-Old Sword in Northern Ireland
10-Year-Old Boy Finds Centuries-Old Sword in Northern Ireland Fionntan Hughes, Ten years old received a metal detector for his birthday in July. Hughes discovered a centuries-old sword hidden about a foot underground the first time he took it out for a walk, reports Eimear Flanagan for BBC News. On the banks of the Blackwater River near …
Looters destroy 2,000-year-old Sudan archaeological site in search for gold
Looters destroy 2,000-year-old Sudan archaeological site in search for gold When last month a team of archeologists deep in Sudan’s deserts arrived at Jabal Maragha’s ancient site, they thought they’d been lost. The site had vanished. But they hadn’t made a mistake. In fact, gold-hunters with giant diggers had destroyed almost all sign of the …
1,000000-year-old artificial underground complex has been discovered
1,000000-year-old artificial underground complex has been discovered Dr Alexander Koltypin recently came out to state that the process through which we identify just how old a relic or a ruin really it shouldn’t be considered the definitive end of the debate as it is heavily flawed, to say the least. In most cases, there is …
Ancient mammoth ivory carving technology reconstructed by archaeologists
Ancient mammoth ivory carving technology reconstructed by archaeologists A team of archaeologists from Siberian Federal University and Novosibirsk State University provided a detailed reconstruction of a technology that was used to carve ornaments and sculptures from mammoth ivory. The team studied a string of beads and an ancient animal figurine found at the Paleolithic site …
India: Archaeologists found 9,000 years old city beneath the surface of modern-day Dwarka
India: Archaeologists found 9,000 years old city beneath the surface of modern-day Dwarka. The discovery of the legendary city of Dvaraka which is said to have been founded by Sri Krishna is an important landmark in the validation of historical relevance of Mahabharata. It has set at rest the doubts expressed by historians about the …
The Ancient Ruins On and Beneath the Sacred Lake тιтicaca
The Ancient Ruins On and Beneath the Sacred Lake тιтicaca Marine archaeologists have discovered an ancient ceremonial site identified as exceptional in the Andes, recovering ritual offerings and the remains of slaughtered animals from a reef in the centre of Lake тιтicaca. The extraordinary haul points to a history of highly charged ceremonies in which the …
Mysterious Markings May Hold Clues to Origin of Writing
Paleoanthropologist Discovers Set of Geometric Signs Used Around the World 40,000 Years Ago Paleoanthropologist and rock art scholar Genevieve von Petzinger decided in 2007 to undertake the study of geometric signs found in caves and other sites, dating back as far as 40,000 years ago during the Stone Age. Although many people know of the familiar petroglyphs …
Monkeys from India Identified in Roman Pet Cemetery in Africa
Monkeys from India Identified in Roman Pet Cemetery in Africa Polish archaeologists have discovered that ancient Romans and Egyptians imported monkeys from India as household pets. Researchers found when examining monkeys buried in the animal cemetery in the Berenice Red Sea Port researchers found that the primates were rhesus macaques endemic to India, rather than some local species. Archaeologists from the Warsaw University’s Centre …
Four Mummies Discovered in Chile
Four Mummies Discovered in Chile Reuters reports that four mummies wearing colourful turbans and sandals were discovered in northern Chile’s Quebrada Blanca copper mine. The mummies, which had been buried in graves, are thought to date between 1100 and 400 B.C. The remains of four mummified humans dressed in bright colours and buried in formal graves …
Rare trove of 1,100-year-old gold coins discovered in Israel
Rare trove of 1,100-year-old gold coins discovered in Israel The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) announced on Monday that a rare hoard of 425 gold coins from the Abbasid Caliphate, dating back around 1,100 years ago, was discovered by teenage volunteers at an archaeological excavation in the centre of the country. The IAA may not have …