A Northern California couple found $10 million worth of rare coins dating back to the 1800’s San Francisco Mint Coin A box with rare gold coins discovered by a couple of Californians walking their dog goes on sale with a $15,000 coin. Coins were priced at $11 million and were dated from 1847 to 1894. …

Long-lost Native American Fort of the Norwalk Discovered in Connecticut In the United States in Connecticut, there has been a remarkable discovery that might shift our atтιтude toward the Native North American Community. A fort believed to have been built by a tribe in the seventeenth century has been unearthed. The find was made during …

Mississippi Repatriates Native American Remains and Artifacts The ᴀssociated Press reports that the Mississippi Department of Archives and History will hand over more than 400 sets of human remains and 83 artefacts in its collections to The Chickasaw Nation under the federal Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). A man and a woman …

Trapped In A Fossil: Remnants Of A 46-Million-Year-Old Meal A mosquito plunged its proboscis into an animal, perhaps a bird or a mammal, and filled up on a blood meal around 46 million years ago. Then its luck turned for the worse, as it fell into a lake and sunk to the bottom. Normally this wouldn’t …

Long Lost Early Colonial Fort Discovered in Maryland According to a Washington Post report, archaeologist Travis Parno, archaeological geophysicist Tim Horsley, and their colleagues at Historic St. Mary’s City announced the discovery of the undisturbed outline of the palisaded fort at St. Mary’s, which was erected in southern Maryland by English colonists in 1634.  Maryland …

Ship Found 20 Feet Below World Trade Center Site Traced to Colonial-Era Philadelphia Researchers long stumped by the mysterious history of an 18th-century ship uncovered at the World Trade Center have finally discovered its origins — thanks to tree rings, according to a new study. The mᴀssive wooden ship — the skeleton of which was unexpectedly …

50 Million Year Old Fossil Identified as Relative of Ostriches The bird fossils were found more than a decade ago, completely intact with bones, feathers, and soft tissues in a former lake bed in Wyoming. Nesbitt cannot hide a grin as he calls the fossil a once-in-a-lifetime discovery for palaeontologists. “This is among one of …

New World Dog Bone Fragment Dated to 10,200 Years Ago According to a Science Magazine report, a 10,200-year-old fragment of dog bone has been identified among thousands of ancient bone pieces discovered in a cave on the west coast of Alaska in 1998.  The find supports the idea that dogs accompanied the first humans who …

Forgotten Graves Found at Florida African American Cemetery WJCT Public Media reports that recent excavations have confirmed the presence of 29 grave shafts detected last year during a ground-penetrating radar survey at the site of North Greenwood Cemetery, an African American cemetery that operated from 1940 to 1954. Archeologists looking at a “forgotten” Clearwater cemetery …