China’s Atlantis: Shi Cheng an Ancient Underwater City in China
China’s Atlantis: Shi Cheng an Ancient Underwater City in China Shi Cheng, Chun’an County, Zhejiang, China. An ancient city, established about 1300 years ago, now lies at the 26-40 m depth underwater. The city and the valley were deliberately flooded in 1959 in order to create an artificial lake and hydroelectric power station. Now it could …
Iroquoian Woodland Village Site Discovered in Ontario
Iroquoian Woodland Village Site Discovered in Ontario Excavation of an Iroquoian village site in southeastern Canada ahead of a road construction project has yielded more than 35,000 artefacts, according to a Kitchener Today report. Representatives of the Six Nations of the Grand Reserve, the Haudenosaunee Development Insтιтute, and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation …
Skeletons Found Under a Florida Wine Shop May Be Some of America’s First Colonists
Skeletons Found Under a Florida Wine Shop May Be Some of America’s First Colonists Historians recently announced in Florida that several small children’s bones buried beneath underneath the last place one might think to look: a wine shop. However, there will be no police inquiry. The Florida wine shop happens to be located in St. …
Ancient Greek Inscription Unearthed in Iraq
Ancient Greek Inscription Unearthed in Iraq The Department of Antiquities in Kurdistan Region’s Duhok province announced on Monday the discovery of an ancient artefact that dates back over 2,000 years. Kurdistan 24 reports that an engraved tablet has been unearthed in northern Kurdistan’s Duhok province. “After careful study, we found out that the stone tablet is …
The 2,500-Year-old ancient Greek city, now about one-third of the city is underwater
The 2,500-Year-old ancient Greek city, now about one-third of the city is underwater The Foundation Oleg Deripaska Volnoe Delo and the Russian Academy of Archaeology uncovered parts of marble stele with inscriptions of ancient Persian King Darius I. Discovered in the ancient town of Phanagoria, in the southern area of Krasnodar, the stele is ᴀssessed …
The long-Lost Dark Age Kingdom Unearthed in Scotland
The long-Lost Dark Age Kingdom Unearthed in Scotland Archaeologists started excavations at Trusty’s Hill, they have discovered ancient picturesque patterns etched into a rock surface near the site entrance. The sculptures were rare in the area, well south of where Pictish carvings had usually been found. (Roman writings of around A.D. 300 described the Picts as …
Roman Mosaics Frozen in Time Uncovered in France
Roman Mosaics Frozen in Time Uncovered in France A lost Roman city dating back to the first century B.C. has been uncovered in spectacular fashion in the south of France. Archaeologists working the site ahead of the construction for a boarding school and a cafeteria were stunned to discover a wide array of structural ruins, …
Archaeologists discover 2,000-year-old ‘Sphinx Room’ hidden in Emperor Nero’s Golden Palace
Archaeologists discover 2,000-year-old ‘Sphinx Room’ hidden in Emperor Nero’s Golden Palace Archaeologists have discovered a hidden vault in the ruins of Roman Emperor Nero’s sprawling palace, hidden under the hills near Rome’s ancient Colosseum. According to a statement (translated from Italian) from the Colosseum archaeological park, which includes the palace’s ruins, the chamber has sat …
Archaeologists Discover London oldest theatre in an Excavation
Archaeologists Discover London oldest theatre in an Excavation A team of archaeologists has discovered the oldest built theatre in London beneath a construction site in Whitechapel, UK. The Elizabethan playhouse, also known as the Red Lion, was built in 1567, Archaeology South-East, part of University College London’s Insтιтute of Archaeology, said in a press release. …
39,000-Year-old Perfectly preserved Ice Age cave bear found in Arctic Russia
39,000 Year Old Perfectly preserved Ice Age cave bear found in Arctic Russia Scientists at the North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk, Russia, announced the discovery of a well-preserved cave bear on the New Siberian island of Bolshyoy Lyakhovsky, Anna Liesowska reports for the Siberian Times. The adult bear lived its life sometime in the last …