Renovations Reveal Twelfth-Century Bath House in Spain According to an El País report, renovation of a popular tapas bar on Seville’s Mateos Gago Street revealed the walls and skylights of a twelfth-century hammam, or bathhouse, built during the rule of the Almohad Caliphate.  On Mateos Gago Street, in the southern Spanish city of Seville, the … Continue reading Renovations Reveal Twelfth-Century Bath House in Spain →

Stunning Swiss Stonehenge Discovered Underwater Archaeologists claim that a range of mysterious man-made stones submerged beneath the surface of a European lake is 5,000 years old. Local media reports that the so-called ‘Swiss Stonehenge’ sits 15feet down at the bottom of Lake Constance and is a Neolithic relic, with stones ranging in size up to … Continue reading Stunning Swiss Stonehenge Discovered Underwater →

Medieval tunnel discovered under the castle in Szczecin in Poland Archaeologists have uncovered over 270 meters of previously hidden tunnels beneath the Pomeranian Dukes’ Castle in Szczecin. They also warned that more detailed research was needed because they could collapse. Some of them come from the Middle Ages. The management of the Pomeranian Dukes’ Castle informed … Continue reading Medieval tunnel discovered under the castle in Szczecin in Poland →

Erosion Reveals Possible Neolithic Village Site in Scotland The Scotsman reports that erosion on the island of Orkney at the northern end of the Bay of Skaill has exposed deer antlers, a boar tooth, a cattle jawbone, and a large stone marked with incised triangles and a series of rectangular bands. The artifacts were found … Continue reading Erosion Reveals Possible Neolithic Village Site in Scotland →

Turkey: 1,550-year-old church’s Marble Floor meticulously restored The Anadolu Agency reports that an ancient floor surface made up of at least four different colors of marble has been uncovered at the site of the ancient city of Stratonikeia in southwestern Turkey.  The latest project on a 1,550-year-old Byzantine church and its marble floors stand out … Continue reading Turkey: 1,550-year-old church’s Marble Floor meticulously restored →

Deep in a Cave in France Neanderthals Constructed Mysterious Ring Structures 176,000 Years Ago In February 1990, thanks to a 15-year-old boy named Bruno Kowalsczewski, footsteps echoed through the chambers of Bruniquel Cave for the first time in tens of thousands of years. The cave sits in France’s scenic Aveyron Valley, but its entrance had … Continue reading Deep in a Cave in France Neanderthals Constructed Mysterious Ring Structures 176,000 Years Ago →

50,000-Year-old Neanderthal Microbiome Analyzed Neanderthals’ gut microbiota already included some beneficial micro-organisms that are also found in our own intestine. An international research group led by the University of Bologna achieved this result by extracting and analyzing ancient DNA from 50,000-year-old fecal sediments sampled at the archaeological site of El Salt, near Alicante (Spain). Published … Continue reading 50,000-Year-old Neanderthal Microbiome Analyzed →

Children’s ID tags unearthed at Nazi death camp in Poland I.D. was found by archaeologists excavating the Sobibor extermination camp in Poland. The Yeshiva World notes the tags containing the names of four Jewish children from Amsterdam aged 5 to 11 who were sent to their deaths during the Second World War. Yoram Haimi, an … Continue reading Children’s ID tags unearthed at Nazi death camp in Poland →

DNA reveals origins of first European farmers A team of international researchers led by ancient DNA experts from the University of Adelaide has resolved the longstanding issue of the origins of the people who introduced farming to Europe some 8000 years ago. A detailed genetic study of one of the first farming communities in Europe, … Continue reading DNA reveals origins of first European farmers →