The excavation of an abandoned mausoleum and silver extraction taking place on an industrial scale at a Roman site in rural Kent has left archaeologists with a 1,500-year-old mystery. Excavation found silver extraction on an industrial scale Archaeologists working on an excavation at Grange Farm, near Gillingham, discovered 15 kilograms of litharge — a material ...
The Antikythera Mechanism has fascinated and puzzled researchers for over a century. Now, an international team of scientists has announced that they’ve finally deciphered more secrets from the world-famous machine. Discovered in a shipwreck on the floor of the Aegean Sea off the coast of Greece in 1901, the Antikythera Mechanism is an intricate high-tech relic from ...
Archaeologists have uncovered a Pictish symbol stone close to the location of one of the most significant carved stone monuments ever uncovered in Scotland. The team from the University of Aberdeen hit upon the 1.7-meter-long stone in a farmer’s field while conducting geophysical surveys to try and build a greater understanding of the important Pictish ...
There are several relics of historical importance. One of these is the intricately designed statuette known as the Venus of Willendorf. While other famous Venus figurines have survived the test of time, this one is especially intriguing. The Venus of Willendorf, also called Woman of Willendorf or Nude Woman, is an Upper Paleolithic female figurine and is perhaps the most ...
The discovery of a site, which dates back 14,550 years, shows that human civilizations existed in the southeastern United States much earlier than scientists previously believed by as much as 1,500 years. According to a research team led by a Florida State University professor, the discovery of stone tools alongside mastodon bones in a Florida ...
All too often, Neanderthals are seen as thick-browed thugs. As recently as the late 1990s and early 2000s, the mainstream scientific community rejected the idea that Neanderthals were intelligent or sophisticated. Over the years, after their discovery, scientists have tried to understand why Neanderthals died out and we survived, with the assumption that they were inferior in ...
The discovery of a 12-million-year-old dog fossil has placed yet another species on the growing list of discoveries. However, this dog, which lived in a time when the massive megalodon shark roamed in the oceans, would not have been man’s best friend. The new canine species has been named Cynarctus wangi, named after Xiaoming Wang, ...
The Midnight Terror Cave sounds like something that was made up to give you night terrors. But if you were aged between 4 and 14 years when the Maya’s were around, it was your living nightmare. The grim discovery in Belize of the appropriately named Midnight Terror Cave has shed more light on the long ...
A new study examining the chemical make-up of iron artifacts from the Viking age aims to uncover new insights into where they came from that could reveal previously unknown information about historic events. Scientists from the University of Nottingham are leading the study, which will examine 90 iron Viking artifacts. These Viking artifacts are weapons ...
For as much as modern society worships chocolate, cacao — the plant chocolate comes from — was believed to be even more divine to ancient Mayas. The Maya considered cacao beans to be a gift from the gods and even used them as currency because of their value. As such, cacao bean production was carefully ...
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