Haunting chalkboard drawings, frozen in time for 100 years, discovered in Oklahoma school Sherry Read Math teacher Classroom is a total mess. The students are gone for the summer, and light fixtures dangle from the ceiling. There is a dust layer on the floor. The worker’s rackets down the corridor during the refurbishment of the school, which … Continue reading Haunting chalkboard drawings, frozen in time for 100 years, discovered in Oklahoma school →

Spanish Armor Plate Discovered in North Carolina, U.S.A Spanish soldiers took over the Native city of Catwba, Joara, about 60 miles east of Asheville, on an excursion from Florida about 450 years ago. Fort San Juan is the first known European settlement to be established in the south-east of the USA about fourteen years before the … Continue reading Spanish Armor Plate Discovered in North Carolina →

400 Million Year Old Hammer discovered In Texas The London The inner handle underwent the carbonization process, the hammerhead was constructed with iron purity, and this is only possible with modern-day technology, according to research by the Metallurgical Institute of Columbia. According to analysis, the head of the hammer consists of 97 pure iron, 2 percent … Continue reading 400 Million Year Old Hammer discovered In Texas The London →

Researchers Uncover 15,500-Year-Old Weapons, The Earliest Ever Found In North America A group of scientists in Texas has recently discovered North America’s oldest weapon ever found, and archeologists call into question the history of the early settlers of the continent. The weapons are ancient spear points which date back 15,500 years. They are around three … Continue reading Oldest weapons ever discovered in North America pre-date Clovis →

18th-Century Gun Piece Discovered in Michigan An 18th-century serpent sideplate was uncovered by archeologists from a British trade weapon at a historic fort in Mackinaw City. The nearly 5 inches (12.7 centimeters) long piece was found last Tuesday in Fort Michilimackinac. It’s believed to date back to the 1770s. Lynn Evans, the curator of archaeology … Continue reading 18th-Century Gun Piece Discovered in Michigan →

‘Extraordinary archaeological find’: Last known US slave ship found in Alabama The last U.S. slave ship, the Clotilda, was finally located at the bottom of the Mobile River in Alabama after a lot of searching. The announcement comes one year after the release of the lost interview with a survivor of that ship by Zora … Continue reading ‘Extraordinary archaeological find’: Last known US slave ship found in Alabama →

Toppled Trees in Florida Reveal 19th-Century Fort where 270 escaped slaves died A post overlooking the Apalachicola River, 200 years ago, housed what historians say was North America’s largest community of freed slaves at the time. Hurricane Michael has given archaeologists an unprecedented opportunity to study its story, a significant tale of black resistance that … Continue reading Toppled Trees in Florida Reveal 19th-Century Fort where 270 escaped slaves died →

Angry Alaskans burned a village to the ground and executed 28 inhabitants by tying them up and knifing them in the head ‘in a feud over a darts game’ in the mid 17th Century Archeologists have uncovered in Alaska a 350-year-old massacre that took place during a war that might have started over a game … Continue reading Possible Seventeenth-Century Massacre Site Found in Alaska →