500,000-Year-Old Earliest European Bone Tools Found In UK
500,000-Year-Old Earliest European Bone Tools Found In UK The earliest known bone tools in European archeological history, archaeologists claim, were found. The implements come from the renowned Boxgrove site in West SusSєx, which was excavated in the 1980s and 90s. The bone tools came from a horse that humans butchered at the site for its …
Volunteers Spot Iron Age Hillfort in Southern England
Volunteers Spot Iron Age Hillfort in Southern England According to a BBC News report, volunteers with the Beacons of the Past project identified the possible site of an Iron Age hillfort covered with trees and foliage in lidar images of the southern Chiltern Hills, a chalk escarpment stretching 45 miles across southern England. From digital …
2,000-Year-Old Burials Uncovered in Iran
2,000-Year-Old Burials Uncovered in Iran At the ancient Tepe Ashraf in Isfahan, a team of Iranian archeologists found what they call the second Parthian era skeleton (247 BC – 224 CE) hoping to offer new insights on the history of the central Iranian city. Led by senior archeologist Alireza Jafari-Zand, the team uncovered the remains of …
Cahokia: The largest and most complex ancient archaeological site you probably didn’t hear of
Cahokia: The largest and most complex ancient archaeological site you probably didn’t hear of I’m standing at the center of what was once the greatest civilization between the deserts of Mexico and the North American Arctic—America’s first city and arguably American Indians’ finest achievement—and I just can’t get past the four-lane gash that cuts through …
Argentinian farmer discovered a prehistoric giant armadillo shell
Argentinian farmer Discovered a prehistoric giant Armadillo shell The resting place of ancient armadillos that roamed the earth some 20,000 years ago has been discovered in Argentina. A farmer stumbled upon the graveyard containing fossilized shells of four mᴀssive Glyptodonts, with the largest being the size of a Volkswagen Beetle. The remains were discovered in …
Medieval Bridges, Artifacts Found in a Polish Lake
Medieval Bridges, Artifacts Found in a Polish Lake POZNAŃ, POLAND—According to a report in The First News, archaeologists from Nicolaus Copernicus University and the Museum of the First Piast at Lednica used pH๏τogrammetry to map the bottom of west-central Poland’s Lake Lednica, which is located between the city of Gniezno, site of the country’s first …
A cache of 14th-Century Coins Discovered in the Czech Republic
A cache of 14th-Century Coins Discovered in the Czech Republic PLZEŇ, CZECH REPUBLIC—Radio Prague International reports that hundreds of fourteenth-century coins were discovered in the western Czech Republic, near the Kladruby Monastery, by a couple out for a walk. “As they were walking through the forest, they spotted a few coins, two made of gold and …
Buried temple in Turkey Built During 12,000 B.C almost 7,500 years older than Egyptian Pyramids
Buried temple in Turkey Built During 12,000 B.C almost 7,500 years older than Egyptian Pyramids Göbekli Tepe in southeast Turkey has been billed as the oldest temple in the world at about 12,000 years of age. It is many millennia older than Stonehenge or Egypt’s great pyramids, built in the pre-pottery Neolithic period before writing or …
7,500 -years-old Armenian Stonehenge discovered at Carahunge (the Armenian Stonehenge)
7,500-years-old “Armenian Stonehenge” discovered at Carahunge (the Armenian Stonehenge) Opposing research insтιтutes have agreed to set aside their disputes over the nature of the so-called ‘Armenian Stonehenge’ to solve its mysteries for once and for all. Made up of 223 stones, Carahunge has been argued to predate Wiltshire’s Stonehenge by 2,500 years — but its …
Intact 3,000-Year-Old Horse Harness Unearthed in Scotland
Intact 3,000-Year-Old Horse Harness Unearthed in Scotland A metal detectorist has discovered a rare hoard of Bronze Age artifacts, which experts describe as “nationally significant”, in the Scottish Borders. Mariusz Stepien was searching a field near Peebles with friends when he found a bronze object buried half a meter (1ft 8in) underground. Archaeologists called to …