Petrified Forest National Park: Ancient and Spectacular We’re going to the southwestern state of Arizona on our National Parks trip this week. We’ll find a strange and vivid landscape there. The hilly soil is covered by black, red, and sometimes purple rocks and sand. In odd forms, massive bits of ancient trees curl. The area … Continue reading Petrified Forest National Park: Ancient and Spectacular →

Oldest DNA in America traced back in Montana Man DNA tests are used for many things. They can prove if someone was involved in a crime and a paternity testing clinic can find out if a child really is their son or daughter by comparing their DNA. A growing trend with DNA testing is to … Continue reading Oldest DNA in America traced back in Montana Man →

9,000-Year-Old Stonehenge-Like Structure Found Under Lake Michigan Archaeologists found something much more fascinating than they got credit for when searching under the waters of Lake Michigan for shipwrecks: they uncovered a rock with a prehistoric carving of a mastodon, as well as a collection of stones arranged in a Stonehenge-like manner. Gazing into the water … Continue reading 9,000-Year-Old Stonehenge-Like Structure Found Under Lake Michigan →

Couple finds more than 66 bottles of Prohibition-era whiskey hidden in the walls of their New York home After finding 66 bottles of whiskey from the Prohibition period concealed in the walls and floorboards of their home in upstate New York, a couple is left shocked. Late last year in the town of Ames, Nick … Continue reading Couple finds more than 66 bottles of Prohibition-era whiskey hidden in the walls of their New York home →

Incredible ancient ruins in the USA you probably didn’t know About The ruins of the ancient civilizations are all common in Rome, Greece, Turkey, Egypt, and Mexico. These cultures are the backbone of the western world, but all of them are so far away that most people see only one or two times in their … Continue reading Incredible ancient ruins in the USA you probably didn’t know About →

Metal monolith found by a helicopter crew in Utah desert In a remote part of Utah, after being spotted by state employees counting sheep from a helicopter, a mysterious monolith was found. The structure appeared to be planted in the soil, estimated to be between 10ft and 12ft tall (about 3 metres). It was made … Continue reading Metal monolith found by a helicopter crew in Utah desert →

A 12-Year-Old Boy Found an Ancient Woolly Mammoth Tooth During a Vacation in Ohio A 12-year-old boy visiting Ohio’s Amish Country may be one of the youngest archaeologists in history. Last month, Jackson Hepner was living with his family at The Inn at Honey Run in Millersburg, Ohio, when he came across a rare relic … Continue reading A 12-Year-Old Boy Found an Ancient Woolly Mammoth Tooth During a Vacation in Ohio →

A lost interview with a survivor of the last U.S. slave ship surfaced A schooner named Clotilda arrived in Mobile Bay, Alabama, on the warm and unusually unsuspecting day of July 1860, on board by captain William Foster and eleventy African slaves. Clotilda was the U.S. slave ship last known to bring captives to the … Continue reading A lost interview with a survivor of the last U.S. slave ship surfaced →

200-year-old shipwreck discovered in Florida Beach erosion has revealed a shipwreck in St. Johns county. The ship is possibly 200 years old. “My wife and I walk the beach almost every day,” Mark O’Donoghue said. Saturday he spotted “some timbers and metal spikes,” exposed in the sand. Sunday, even more, had been exposed and he … Continue reading 200-year-old shipwreck discovered in Florida →