Artwork in an Indonesian cave has been found to date back at least 40,000 years, making it the oldest sign yet of human creative art — likely pre-dating art from European caves. http://www.nature.com/news/world-s-oldest-art-found-in-indonesian-cave-1.16100
If you are interested in medieval English coins and how to identify them. Look no further than this FREE downloadable 40 page pdf., written by coin expert Carl Savage. http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/10/2014/introduction-to-medieval-coins-identification-guide
Not until the lid was off the wood coffin—exposing the 2,500-year-old mummified remains of a 14-year-old Egyptian boy—could J.P. Brown relax. Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2014-12-chicago-scientists-egyptian-mummy-coffin.html#jCp
Analyses of glass beads found in Denmark give us new knowledge of Bronze Age trade routes. http://sciencenordic.com/danish-bronze-age-glass-beads-traced-egypt
A Viking feasting hall measuring almost 50 metres in length has been identified near Vadstena in Sweden. Archaeologists from Stockholm University and Umeå University used ground-penetrating radar, a non-invasive geophysical method, to locate and map the house foundation. http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/12/2014/viking-feasting-hall-identified-by-ground-penetrating-radar
On the coast of the East China Sea, near the modern Taizhou City, archaeologists have unearthed an unusual find: A husband-and-wife tomb dating to the Ming Dynasty that contains extraordinarily well-preserved clothing, decorated with elaborate designs. http://www.livescience.com/49044-clothing-unearthed-china-tomb-ming-dynasty.html
A Japanese-Egyptian team is reconstructing Khufu’s second solar boat, 4,500 years after it was buried to ferry the pharaoh to eternity. http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/News/7893/47/Saving-Khufu%E2%80%99s-second-boat.aspx
New research conducted on a mollusk shell found over a century ago on the Indonesian island of Java, has revealed that it contains the oldest engraving ever found and that it was almost certainly etched by a Homo erectus, an… Continue Reading
The Arbatel de magia veterum (Arbatel: Of the Magic of the Ancients) is a Renaissance-period grimoire – a textbook of magic – and one of the most influential works of its kind. Unlike some other occult manuscripts that contain dark… Continue Reading
Just an amusing short article on an unusual find. http://metro.co.uk/2014/10/23/ancient-egyptian-sarcophagus-discovered-in-essex-living-room-4917753/