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. …

World’s longest fossilized human trackway discovered at White Sands Footprints are a common theme at White Sands. Every day, people from all over the world visit and leave traces of their comings and goings. The white dunes of the Tularosa Basin are just a recent blip on the geological timeline. During the ice age tens …

Researchers Discover 14,800 Years Old Petroglyphs, the Oldest one in U.S.A A recent high-tech study performed by a bouldering researcher of the University of Colorado showed the oldest recorded petroglyphs in North America, which were carved into a series of boulders in West Nevada at least 10,500 years ago and perhaps even as far back …

Ship Found 20 Feet Below World Trade Center Site Builders stopped the backhoe during mᴀssive reconstruction efforts at the World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan when they uncovered something surprising just south of where the Twin Towers once stood. At a depth of 22 metres (6.7 metres) below the current level on the street, in …

Possible War of 1812 Cemetery Found in Vermont Vermont Public Radio reports that the possible remains of soldiers who died during the War of 1812 were found buried in rows at a construction site in northwestern Vermont. They’re human remains, bones that researchers say that have been around for a while. In fact, they say they’re …

Archaeologists explore a rural field in Kansas, and a lost city emerges In the Great Plains of Kansas, archaeologists have made an innovative and unlikely discovery: a vast town lost centuries ago. Donald Blakeslee discovered a few years ago the lost city of Etzanoa in Arkansas City, Kan, a Wichita State University anthropologist, and an …

The Forgotten Culture That Built America’s “Pyramids” of Dirt American history students know of the ancient Egyptians,  the Incas of Peru, and of the Aztecs of Mexico, but less know a major civilization that extends through the eastern United States from around 800 to 1600 CE. Meet the Mississippians. Years before the European immigrants planted the …

Three 17th-Century Ships Found buried underneath in Old Town Alexandria Tell a Story of Colonial-Era Virginia Back in December 2015, a 300-year-old ship buried in Old Town Alexandria was first detected at a construction site for a new H๏τel. Local archaeologists suspected that it may have originally been used to truck heavy cargo or was built …

Early 20th-Century Trolley Tracks Found in Washington State Contractors dug up history last week when rails from Walla Walla’s trolley system dating back to 1906 were removed from Whitman Street between First and Second avenues. The tracks once connected Walla Walla residents to downtown, Pioneer Park, the Walla Walla County Fairgrounds, cemetery, and many other …