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Can You Decipher It? French Village Offers $2,200 To Anyone Who Can Solve Inscription On Mysterious Rock

Can You Decipher It? French Village Offers $2,200 To Anyone Who Can Solve Inscription On Mysterious Rock

Officials in a French village are offering a €2,000 ($2,200) reward for anyone who can decipher a series of letters on a centuries-old rock, CNN reports. Authorities in Plougastel-Daoulas, a village in Brittany, northwest France, have known about the rock for a few years. Tucked away in a seaside cave that is only accessible at […]

5y ago

Archaeologists In Jamestown Have Discovered The 400-Year-Old Wall Of The First General Assembly Meeting Site

Archaeologists In Jamestown Have Discovered The 400-Year-Old Wall Of The First General Assembly Meeting Site

Archaeologists in Jamestown have just discovered an enormous piece of American history after they unearthed the 400-year-old western wall of a very special church that was once the site of the first General Assembly meeting in the United States, which took place in 1619. The Virginia Company of London, who were the official sponsors of […]

5y ago

The Oldest Evidence Of Beer Production Has Been Discovered In Israel

The Oldest Evidence Of Beer Production Has Been Discovered In Israel

Beer is an alcoholic beverage that has been consumed for countless years. However, a discovery in Israel goes some way to putting an actual date to early beer production. According to the Times of Israel, the 60-year debate over whether beer or bread came first might be riled up again after a new study on […]

6y ago

Viking Raiders Burned This Pictish Fort To The Ground — And Preserved It For Archaeologists

Viking Raiders Burned This Pictish Fort To The Ground — And Preserved It For Archaeologists

Usually, when Vikings went in to attack an area, they aimed to destroy it. Killing the occupants and burning the buildings to the ground was a great way for the Vikings to eradicate their enemies. However, it has been discovered that this method has actually helped to preserve a Pictish location rather than destroy it. […]

6y ago

A Reconstructed Roman Temple Dedicated To Mithras In 240AD Will Be Opening Its Doors In London

A Reconstructed Roman Temple Dedicated To Mithras In 240AD Will Be Opening Its Doors In London

The remains of a Roman Temple dedicated to Mithras in 240AD have been painstakingly reconstructed, and the London Mithraeum will be opening its doors to the public so that history enthusiasts can gaze in wonder at the remnants left behind from a long-gone civilization who once looked to this mysterious religion for truth. Much of […]

7y ago

17 Mummies Discovered In Chamber In Egypt

17 Mummies Discovered In Chamber In Egypt

Archaeologists digging in desert catacombs in the Minya province of Egypt have uncovered a necropolis containing 17 mummies. A find such as this has never happened in that area, according to the Chicago Tribune. The archaeological site where the discovery was made is located in the collage of Tuna al-Gabal which is on the edge […]

7y ago

London Mudlarking Adventure: Discover Hidden Artifacts Along The River Thames

London Mudlarking Adventure: Discover Hidden Artifacts Along The River Thames

If you have never been mudlarking before, you’re in for a treat. Most visitors to London, and indeed, even those who live there, have never heard of mudlarking. But this is a tradition that has been around for a very long time, and it allows even the most amateur budding archaeologist to find absolute riches […]

8y ago

Medieval Cities Found in Cambodia

Medieval Cities Found in Cambodia

Archaeologists have found medieval cities that are hidden under the thick jungle in Cambodia not far from the ancient temple city of Angkor Wat, reported ABC News. The discovery was made using lasers and will shed new light on the medieval cities found throughout the region that were created by the same people who created […]

8y ago

2,000-Year-Old Handwritten Documents Found In London Are Oldest Ever Discovered In Britain

2,000-Year-Old Handwritten Documents Found In London Are Oldest Ever Discovered In Britain

A 2,000-year-old handwritten letter — the oldest ever discovered in Britain — was among the 405 documents from Roman London that were discovered by archaeologists on a dig site that will eventually become the new headquarters for media and data company Bloomberg. The documents, which are actually wooden tablets that were originally covered in beeswax […]

8y ago

Ghosts Haunt Cincinnati Music Hall And Here’s Why: Bones Beneath The Orchestra Pit

Ghosts Haunt Cincinnati Music Hall And Here’s Why: Bones Beneath The Orchestra Pit

For decades, orchestras that played at Cincinnati Music Hall had an invisible, unearthly audience: the bones of the city’s long dead, laid to rest in the land a century before. The bones of those dead have been unearthed at the Music Hall with grisly regularity since it was first built in 1876, and for Cincinnati […]

8y ago

Digging Into Malcolm X’s Past: Boston Archaeologists Break Ground At Civil Rights Activist’s Former Home

Digging Into Malcolm X’s Past: Boston Archaeologists Break Ground At Civil Rights Activist’s Former Home

Fifty-one years after the civil rights activist was assassinated, a team of archaeologists from Boston, Massachusetts, have begun digging into Malcolm X’s past at his former home in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston. The house where Malcolm X once lived with his half-sister, Ella Little Collins, now belongs to Rodnell Collins, nephew of the famed […]

8y ago

Century-Old Christian Cross Discovered In Denmark, Proving Earlier Presence Of Christianity There [Video]

Century-Old Christian Cross Discovered In Denmark, Proving Earlier Presence Of Christianity There [Video]

https://youtu.be/KnWAFpFe5Lc A century-old Christian cross was discovered in Denmark earlier this month by amateur archaeologist Dennis Fabricus Holm in Anslev, Østfyn, according to an article by the Christian Post. Actually, the cross was over a century old, the small, almost perfectly preserved Christian cross was estimated to be 1,100-years-old. On FaceBook, Holm had written that […]

8y ago

The Cave Of Beasts In Egypt Covered In Headless Figures, Wild Animals — And Baby Hand Prints?

The Cave Of Beasts In Egypt Covered In Headless Figures, Wild Animals — And Baby Hand Prints?

When archaeologists stumbled upon a rock shelter in the Egyptian Sahara in 2002, they found something remarkable: thousands of decorations painted on the walls 8,000 years ago. They saw wild animals, humans, and headless figures and ended up naming the cave, located in the Western Desert in Egypt, the Cave of Beasts, National Geographic reported. […]

8y ago

Young Israeli Boy Finds 3,400-Year-Old Figurine Of Naked Lady During Hiking Trip

Young Israeli Boy Finds 3,400-Year-Old Figurine Of Naked Lady During Hiking Trip

A 7-year-old Israeli boy was hiking with friends in northern Israel when he stumbled upon a naked woman — a 3,400 year-old figurine. Ori Greenhut (spelled Uri Grinhot by Israeli media) was visiting an archaeological site called Tel Rehov in the Beit She’an Valley the day he found the figurine, NBC News reported. He was […]

8y ago

Caesar At His “Absolute Worst” — Archaeologists Find Battleground Where Caesar Massacred Tribesmen Who Asked For Asylum

Caesar At His “Absolute Worst” — Archaeologists Find Battleground Where Caesar Massacred Tribesmen Who Asked For Asylum

Archaeologists have identified a site Caesar wrote about in his diaries in 55 B.C., according to The Guardian. For many decades archaeologists and scholars have been reading Caesar’s account of the Gallic wars and wondering where one particularly bloody massacre might have occurred. “Caesar in his war reports without any shame gives detailed descriptions of […]

9y ago

Huge Castle Discovered In Gloucester Under Basketball Court In Prison — The Castle Served As A Prison As Well

Huge Castle Discovered In Gloucester Under Basketball Court In Prison — The Castle Served As A Prison As Well

Remains of a huge castle were discovered in Gloucester, England. The castle, which may have rivaled the Tower of London in its enormity, was found under the basketball court of a prison. Underneath the basketball court of a prison in Gloucester, England, are the remains of a castle that served multiple purposes, including housing royalty. […]

9y ago

Hidden Chambers Likely: What Lies Behind King Tut’s Tomb?

Hidden Chambers Likely: What Lies Behind King Tut’s Tomb?

Radar scans of King Tut’s tomb in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings reveal that hidden chambers are likely, reinforcing the theory that undiscovered rooms lie behind the painted walls, reported National Geographic. Preliminary examination of the scans revealed evidence that two hidden doorways conceal unopened sections of the pharaoh’s underground burial chamber. The research prompted […]

9y ago

This Archaeologist Hunts Ancient Cities, And Looters, From Space — And She Just Won $1M

This Archaeologist Hunts Ancient Cities, And Looters, From Space — And She Just Won $1M

Space archaeologist Sarah Parcak doesn’t think small, she thinks in “huge bright colors and big brush strokes.” Those are the words of Chris Thornton with the National Geographic Society, where Parcak is an Explorer. The space archaeologist also the latest recipient of the $1 million TED Prize, given to people with visions that can spark […]

9y ago

Mona Lisa’s Bones Found In Florence Church? Experts Say They Have No Way Of Knowing

Mona Lisa’s Bones Found In Florence Church? Experts Say They Have No Way Of Knowing

Have Mona Lisa’s bones been found in a Florence church? While the find sounds promising, unfortunately archaeologists say they have no way of knowing for certain – at least for now. As The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports, archaeologists carrying out an excavation at the Saint Ursula Convent in Florence, Italy, came upon some bones that […]

9y ago

Prehistoric Massacre In Europe: Archaeologists Find 7,000-Year-Old Mass Grave

Prehistoric Massacre In Europe: Archaeologists Find 7,000-Year-Old Mass Grave

Scientists working in Germany believe an ancient gravesite supports theories of a prehistoric massacre in Europe from 7,000 years ago, according to a Fox News report. A team of archaeologists, led by Christian Meyer of the University of Mainz, said they found rare evidence of a horrific regional conflict that involved torture and mass death […]

9y ago

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