Eerie Lake Erie is home to a giant ship graveyard: Nearly 2,500 sunken vessels
Eerie Lake Erie is home to a giant ship graveyard: Nearly 2,500 sunken vessels Lurking below the surface of Lake Erie is a ship graveyard that is estimated to include up to 2,500 vessels, with the earliest wreck dating to the 1800s when it was part of the water route from the Atlantic Ocean to … Continue reading Eerie Lake Erie is home to a giant ship graveyard: Nearly 2,500 sunken vessels
‘Astounding’ Roman statues unearthed at Norman church ruins on the route of HS2
‘Astounding’ Roman statues unearthed at Norman church ruins on route of HS2 Archaeologists in central England working on the HS2 project have uncovered a set of incredible rare Roman statues whilst excavating a Norman Church in Stoke Mandeville. In the final stages of the excavation at the site of the old St Mary’s Norman church … Continue reading ‘Astounding’ Roman statues unearthed at Norman church ruins on the route of HS2
Rare 1,000-year-old canoe found in a cenote near Chichén Itzá
Rare 1,000-year-old canoe found in cenote near Chichén Itzá A remarkably well-preserved Maya canoe — built for use some 1,100 years ago — has been found in a freshwater pool, or ‘cenote’, in Yucatán, southern Mexico. The wooden artefact — more than five feet in length — was found near the ruined city of Chichen Itza by Instituto … Continue reading Rare 1,000-year-old canoe found in a cenote near Chichén Itzá
The newly named human species may be the direct ancestor of modern humans
Newly named human species may be the direct ancestor of modern humans Live Science reports that paleoanthropologist Mirjana Roksandic of the University of Winnipeg and her colleagues suggest renaming some human ancestors after examining fossils dating from 774,000 to 129,000 years ago. The newly proposed species, Homo bodoensis — which lived more than half a … Continue reading The newly named human species may be the direct ancestor of modern humans
Red paint on the 1,000-year-old gold mask from Peru contains human blood proteins
Red paint on 1,000-year-old gold mask from Peru contains human blood proteins Thirty years ago, archaeologists excavated the tomb of an elite 40–50-year-old man from the Sicán culture of Peru, a society that predated the Incas. The man’s seated, the upside-down skeleton was painted bright red, as was the gold mask covering his detached skull. … Continue reading Red paint on the 1,000-year-old gold mask from Peru contains human blood proteins
Amazingly Preserved Mummies in China Yield New Clues to Bronze Age Life
Amazingly Preserved Mummies in China Yield New Clues to Bronze Age Life According to a Gizmodo report, an international team of researchers has analyzed the genomes of some of the oldest of the naturally preserved mummies from northwest China’s Xiaohe cemetery, which is located in the desert sands of the Tarim Basin. The remains, which … Continue reading Amazingly Preserved Mummies in China Yield New Clues to Bronze Age Life
Evidence of Prehistoric Humans Found on the Falkland Islands
Evidence of Prehistoric Humans Found on the Falkland Islands The enigmatic, now-extinct Falkland Islands wolf had human visitors on the remote archipelago up to 1,070 years ago. The find suggests that Indigenous people could have originally brought the foxlike creatures, also known as the warrah, to the islands. Scientists have debated how the islands’ only … Continue reading Evidence of Prehistoric Humans Found on the Falkland Islands
Industrial-Sized Tannery Detected at Medieval Abbey in England
Industrial-Sized Tannery Detected at Medieval Abbey in England It is Britain’s biggest and most famous monastic ruin and one that conjures up bucolic images of peace, reflection and very little noise apart, perhaps, from the occasional waft of Gregorian chanting. In reality, archaeologists have revealed, Fountains Abbey near Ripon was as busy, noisy and industrialised as anywhere … Continue reading Industrial-Sized Tannery Detected at Medieval Abbey in England
A private collector is returning a Mayan artefact to Guatemala
A private collector is returning a Mayan artefact to Guatemala A private collector has returned a Mayan artefact to Guatemala after it was initially slated for auction in 2019. The stone fragment depicts a bird headdress belonging to an ancient ruler of Piedras Negras, the capital of a Mayan kingdom that flourished between the 4th century … Continue reading A private collector is returning a Mayan artefact to Guatemala
Man finds ancient grave and remains while digging the foundation for the garage
Man finds ancient grave and remains while digging foundation for garage The Slovak Spectator reports that a man digging a foundation for a new garage in western Slovakia alerted the authorities when he discovered human remains. Further investigation revealed a grave containing the bones of two women. A man was digging the foundations for his … Continue reading Man finds ancient grave and remains while digging the foundation for the garage