1,000-year-old bison skeleton unearthed in Mitchell What a completely unusual find. Two students found the bones of an ancient bison while digging last week at the Prehistoric Indian Village. The estimated 1,000-year-old bones discovered by the University of Exeter students help reveal how the Ame… What a completely unusual find. Two students found the bones …

Possible Hessian Remains Found at Revolutionary War Battlefield Researchers believe they have uncovered in a mᴀss grave in New Jersey the remains of as many as 12 Hessian soldiers who fought during the Revolutionary War, officials announced Tuesday. The remains, found at the site of Fort Mercer and the 1777 Battle of Red Bank, rested …

Octopus lures from the Mariana Islands were found to be the oldest in the world An archaeological study has determined that cowrie-shell artefacts found throughout the Mariana Islands were lures used for hunting octopuses and that the devices, similar versions of which have been found on islands across the Pacific, are the oldest known artefacts …

Oldest DNA from domesticated American horse lends credence to shipwreck folklore An abandoned Caribbean colony unearthed centuries after it had been forgotten and a case of mistaken idenтιтy in the archaeological record has conspired to rewrite the history of a barrier island off the Virginia and Maryland coasts. These seemingly unrelated threads were woven together …

Ice Age Footprints Uncovered in Utah Human footprints believed to date from the end of the last ice age have been discovered on the salt flats of the Air Force’s Utah Testing and Training Range (UTTR) by Cornell researcher Thomas Urban in forthcoming research. Urban and Daron Duke, of Far Western Anthropological Research Group, were …

Graves at Williamsburg’s First Baptist Church Will Be Excavated Descendants, archaeologists and researchers alike gathered Monday for the long-awaited beginning of burial excavations at the original First Baptist Church site. The First Baptist Church descendant community unanimously voted in March to begin excavating three grave shafts in order to learn the race, age, Sєx and anything else …

A Rock With Mastodon Carving Discovered At The Underwater Stonehenge Of Lake Michigan Another incredible discovery has been made as researchers have found a rock with a carving of a Mastodon at the underwater Stonehenge of Lake Michigan. In 2007, at a depth of twelve meters, researchers found a peculiar set of aligned stones that …

Map of the Lost Lizard City under Los Angeles This map is an essential ingredient of a story that has ‘Indiana Jones’ written all over it: secret caves, a lost civilisation and above all, a treasure trove of gold in unimaginable quanтιтies. And all this is in the ground below the present-day metropolis of Los …

Mississippian Period Cave Art Tells A Tale From 6,500 Years Ago On a cold winter’s day in 1980, a group of recreational cavers entered a narrow, wet stream pᴀssage south of Knoxville, Tennessee. They navigated a slippery mud slope and a тιԍнт keyhole through the cave wall, trudged through the stream itself, ducked through another …