A new study has been released regarding Ancient Egyptian Star Charts. The work presents a theory that the star charts painted on the insides of coffins represented a map to assist the spirit to traverse the sky and find a home in… Continue Reading
Time.com recently reported on the papyrus fragment that describes Jesus the Nazarene as having a wife being deemed authentic after testing: “teams of engineering, biology, and chemistry professors from Columbia University, Harvard University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology concluded… Continue Reading
Divers exploring the Mentor ship that wrecked off the southern coast of Greece in 1802 while carrying the Parthenon marbles to England have found other antiquities at the site. Greek Culture Ministry archaeologists and divers have been exploring the site… Continue Reading
The Siberian Times reports that a wooden statue discovered in a Russian peat bog may be 11,000 and bear what could be the oldest scripture known to man. The report says: “Experts have surmised that its hieroglyphics contain encoded information… Continue Reading
After 400 years in the Virginia dirt, the box came out of the ground looking like it had been plucked from the ocean. A tiny silver brick, now encrusted with a green patina and rough as sandpaper. Buried beneath it… Continue Reading
hurriyetdailynews.com reports: “Amid excavations at four different ancient sites in the Central Anatolian province of Yozgat, a cuneiform tablet has been unearthed in the Uşaklı Mound at the Büyük Taşlık village. “Thought to date back to around 2,000 B.C., the… Continue Reading
ABC News rerpots that British Egyptologist Nicholas Reeves has been invited to Cairo by the Egyptian Antiquities Ministry to defend his recently aired theory that the tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amoun occupies a small antechamber that’s part of larger tomb complex that was… Continue Reading
A wooden figurehead depicting a doglike figure or monster from a historic 15th century Danish ship has been pulled from Swedish waters. This is one of the oldest known preserved wooden carvings of its kind in the world. Wood disintegrates… Continue Reading
The New World must have seemed so mysterious and alien to the 115 English colonists who settled Roanoke Island off the coast of North Carolina in 1587. They came from a heavily developed country to a wilderness without European-type houses,… Continue Reading
A team of archaeologists carrying out excavations at Kaman-Kalehoyuk in Turkey found evidence of the medicinal use of henbane seeds. The seeds, which were found in an old hearth, have therapeutic uses as well as narcotic and psychotropic effects. The… Continue Reading