Archeaology

Off the coastline of Egypt scuba divers have actually uncovered something that was believed to be shed a very long time back. It was stated that the old city of Heracleion was shed under the sea permanently. Well 1200 years later on, off the bay of Aboukir, this old city …

Geologists as well as excavators have actually long understood that the building contractors of Stonehenge used 2 major kinds of rock: a silcrete, referred to as ‘sarsen,’ was utilized for the big trilithons, sarsen circle and also various other pillars, as well as a range of ‘ bluestones’– utilized for …

Two groups of archaic humans — Neanderthals and their enigmatic cousins, Denisovans — occupied Denisova Cave in the Altai region of Siberia almost continuously through relatively warm and cold periods over the past 200,000 years, according to two new studies published in the January 31, 2019 issue of the journal …

A team of Canadian archaeologists has found a cache of charred seeds of the pitseed goosefoot (Chenopodium berlandieri spp. jonesianum), a form of quinoa native to Eastern North America, at the site of Tutela Heights in Brantford, Ontario. The ancient quinoa seeds date back to 930-915 BC, and have never …

A team of archaeologists from Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA) has rediscovered a large, well-preserved subterranean ice-well dating from 1780. Located just off Regent’s Park, the subterranean ice-well would have been one of the largest of its kind when first built — measuring an impressive 24.6 foot (7.5 m) wide …

The Pumapunku (Gateway of the Puma or Jaguar), a highly damaged pre-Columbian monument at the ancient archaeological site of Tiwanaku, Bolivia, has been reconstructed using 3D printed miniature models of architectural fragments. Historic photograph of the architecture on the east side of the Pumapunku platform taken by Max Uhle in …

The Archbasilica of St John Lateran is the cathedral church in the city of Rome, Italy. It is the oldest and highest ranking of the four papal major basilicas, giving it the unique title of ‘Archbasilica.’ The church was originally built in the 4th century CE by Constantine the Great, …

An international team of archaeologists and paleoanthropologists has uncovered 2.4-million-year-old stone artifacts and cutmarked bones at the archaeological site of Ain Boucherit in Algeria. The discovery, reported in the journal Science, suggests that humans’ ancestors inhabited the Mediterranean fringe in North Africa much earlier than previously thought. The Ain Boucherit …

As far back as 40,000 years ago (Upper Paleolithic), ancient people kept track of time using relatively advanced knowledge of astronomy. The Lascaux Shaft Scene: a panel with a rhino, a duck/goose and a disemboweled aurochs/bison with a dying man on the main wall. Image credit: © Ministère de la …

An ancient Egyptian Calendar of Lucky and Unlucky Days assigns luck with the period of 2.85 days. Previous astronomical, astrophysical and statistical analyses of the calendar support the idea that this was the period of the eclipsing binary star Algol approximately 3,000 years ago. However, next to nothing is known …