As a child growing up, one of my fondest memory is flying in a collector’s plane that was a similar to the plane that Amelia Earhart flew. Earhart disappeared while flying over the Pacific Ocean on July 2, 1937… Continue Reading
The cottage was discovered near Lower Black Moss reservoir in the village of Barley, in the shadow of Pendle Hill. Archaeologists brought in by United Utilities to survey the area found the building under a grass mound. Historians are now… Continue Reading
They ruled the vast grasslands of Eurasia for a thousand years, striking fear into the hearts of the ancient Greeks and Persians. But they left no cities or settlements behind, only massive grave mounds, called kurgans, dotting the steppes from… Continue Reading
Northeast Laos is home to one of the world’s most wondrous archaeological sites: the Plain of Jars. The awe-inspiring site is littered with thousands of enormous 2,000-year-old stone jars nestled among unexploded Vietnam-era bombs. The site largely remained a mystery because… Continue Reading
Check out the video of a beautiful Hindu Temple that’s under water near Bali. http://pparihar.com/2015/12/10/5000-years-old-underwater-hindu-temple-at-bali-indonesia/
Archaeologists claim to have proved that Julius Caesar set foot on what is now Dutch soil, destroying two Germanic tribes in a battle that left about 150,000 people dead. The tribes were massacred in the fighting with the Roman emperor… Continue Reading
Pioneering X-ray imaging has allowed scientists to begin to unravel the mysteries of the Herculaneum “library” – the scrolls that were preserved by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 AD. They were discovered among the ruins of a villa… Continue Reading
Wine has been a part of human life, culture, and diet, since time immemorial. In ancient Greece, wine was praised by poets, historians, and artists, and was frequently referred to in the works of Aesop and Homer. Dionysus, the Greek… Continue Reading
Like non-invasive archaeology, state-of-the-art high tech imaging shows unseen features of the famous Renaissance period Baptistery of St. John in Florence. Using state-of-the-art techniques, an international team of specialists has been busy piecing together a chronology of construction for the… Continue Reading
Two headless skeletons and a burial in the form of… a skull are among the discoveries of Georgian-Polish team of archaeologists during excavations in the ancient cemetery Beshtasheni in the region of Lower Kartli, south-eastern Georgia. In total, during the… Continue Reading