In the sea between the islands of Ričula and Galešnjak in the Pašman Channel in Croatia, archaeologists from Zadar last year found the remains of a large settlement and a port more than 2,500 years old. In early October of… Continue Reading
Air and Space magazine reports that in June 2014, forester Austin Lunn-Rhue uncovered the nearly forgotten wreckage of an Air Force F-106 that went down August 1964 in Washington State’s Olympic Peninsula. The wreckage is in a stand of trees… Continue Reading
A new University of Colorado Boulder study, reports on the archaeological findings from a Maya village in El Salvador frozen in time 1,400 years ago by a blanket of volcanic ash. Evidence shows that the farming families who lived there… Continue Reading
The Daily Mail reports that Biblical scholar Geoffrey Smith noted a chunk of New Testament manuscript being offered on eBay with a starting price of … $99! Smith contacted the seller and requested that he suspend the sale and allow… Continue Reading
A farmer in the Swiss town of Ueken saw something glinting out of a molehill on his cherry orchard and wound up unearthing “more than 4,000 bronze and silver coins dating back to ancient Rome,” the Guardian reports. The coins, which… Continue Reading
The London Telegraph reports that a basilica built in the 1st century BCE in Rome will be opened to the public for the first time since its discovery in 1917. The basilica was commissioned by an important family for were… Continue Reading
Painted with scenes from the Trojan War, a Roman shield is being examined in great detail, 80 years after it was excavated. Dating back to the mid-third century A.D., it was discovered by Yale archaeologists at the site of Dura-Europos,… Continue Reading
The ancient Egyptians who built the pyramids may have been able to move massive stone blocks across the desert by wetting the sand in front of a contraption built to pull the heavy objects, according to a new study. http://www.livescience.com/45285-how-egyptians-moved-pyramid-stones.html
Following a dramatic new theory by archaeologist Nicholas Reeves that the tomb of Tutankhamun contains two hidden chambers and one of them is the final resting place of Queen Nefertiti, the Ministry of Antiquities in Egypt launched high-tech analyses… Continue Reading
Smithsonian reports that recent genome studies show that human beings suffered from Plague thousands of years before it showed up in historical records: Three devastating outbreaks have previously been linked to the plague by historical records and DNA studies. The… Continue Reading