Haunting chalkboard drawings, frozen in time for 100 years, discovered in Oklahoma school Sherry Read Math teacher Classroom is a total mess. The students are gone for the summer, and light fixtures dangle from the ceiling. There is a dust layer on the floor. The worker’s rackets down the corridor during the refurbishment of the school, which …

Spanish Armor Plate Discovered in North Carolina, U.S.A Spanish soldiers took over the Native city of Catwba, Joara, about 60 miles east of Asheville, on an excursion from Florida about 450 years ago. Fort San Juan is the first known European settlement to be established in the south-east of the USA about fourteen years before the …

Researchers Uncover 15,500-Year-Old Weapons, The Earliest Ever Found In North America A group of scientists in Texas has recently discovered North America’s oldest weapon ever found, and archeologists call into question the history of the early settlers of the continent. The weapons are ancient spear points which date back 15,500 years. They are around three …

18th-Century Gun Piece Discovered in Michigan An 18th-century serpent sideplate was uncovered by archeologists from a British trade weapon at a historic fort in Mackinaw City. The nearly 5 inches (12.7 centimeters) long piece was found last Tuesday in Fort Michilimackinac. It’s believed to date back to the 1770s. Lynn Evans, the curator of archaeology …

‘Extraordinary archaeological find’: Last known US slave ship found in Alabama The last U.S. slave ship, the Clotilda, was finally located at the bottom of the Mobile River in Alabama after a lot of searching. The announcement comes one year after the release of the lost interview with a survivor of that ship by Zora …

Toppled Trees in Florida Reveal 19th-Century Fort where 270 escaped slaves died A post overlooking the Apalachicola River, 200 years ago, housed what historians say was North America’s largest community of freed slaves at the time. Hurricane Michael has given archaeologists an unprecedented opportunity to study its story, a significant tale of black resistance that …

Angry Alaskans burned a village to the ground and executed 28 inhabitants by tying them up and knifing them in the head ‘in a feud over a darts game’ in the mid 17th Century Archeologists have uncovered in Alaska a 350-year-old mᴀssacre that took place during a war that might have started over a game …