2700-year-old weed found in an Asian grave is still totally smokeable. Cannabis is as ancient as the dinosaurs. It’s been used by different ethnicities around the world for thousands of years, playing different roles in different cultures. In Czechoslovakia, a hemp rope dating back to 26,900 BC was discovered a decade ago and was ᴀssociated …

Village Where Jesus’ Disciples May Have Lived Flooded by Rising Sea of Galilee Rain, the life-giver, falling from the sky; so precious that God combines His Word with His bounty. Israelis prefer to be happy when it rains. “I’m not made of sugar, I’m not going to melt,” the local macho men explaining why they scorn …

Farmer finds pots filled with gold silver ornaments while tiling his land in India, telangana. On Wednesday, farmers in the Sultanpur village of Vikarabad in Telangana district find two pots with gold and silver ornaments. A total of 25 gold and silver ornaments were found in the pots, according to the reports. A Mohammad Siddiqui had …

The ᴅᴇᴀᴅ Sea Scrolls contain genetic clues to their origins The ᴅᴇᴀᴅ Sea Scrolls’ genetic analysis of leather helped to place various fragments in new historical contexts. The ᴅᴇᴀᴅ Sea scrolls consist of a collection of approximately 1,000 ancient manuscripts, including the earliest edition of the Hebrew Bible in the cave of the Judean Desert. However, …

The Great Death Pit of Ur: Mᴀss Human Sacrifice in Ancient Mesopotamia As Sir Charles Leonard Woolley excavated at Ur between 1922 and 1934, every burial without a grave chamber was called the “death pit” (known also as ‘grave pits’). Woolley and his team excavated the PG 1237, which Woolley called ‘ The Great Death Pit, …

Medieval Sugarcane crusher Found in Northern India The archaeology department of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) has excavated a “stone sugarcane crusher” of the late medieval period. AGRA, INDIA—The Times of India reports that a stone sugar mill has been unearthed on farmland in northern India. Manvendra Kumar Pundhir of Aligarh Muslim University said medieval sugar mills …

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 …

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 …

2000-Year-Old Bronze Pot With Unknown 3,000 Ml Liquid Unearthed! Archaeology Org reports that a 2,200-year-old tomb has been excavated in central China, at an ancient city site situated along the route between the two ancient capitals of Xi’an and Luoyang. According to Zhu Xiaodong of the Sanmenxia Insтιтute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, the tomb …