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archeology
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AI Uncovers Hundreds Of Previously Unknown Ancient Symbols In Peru’s Nazca Desert
02 Oct 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
Assisted by artificial intelligence, archaeologists have discovered 303 unknown giant symbols including birds, plants, spiders, humanlike figures with headdresses, decapitated heads and an orca wielding a knife.
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Not Sure What To Make For Dinner? Try This 4,000-Year-Old Ancient Babylonian Recipe
15 Aug 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
Researchers have discovered that the 4,000-year-old stone tablets housed in the Yale Babylonian Collection since 1911 had nothing to do with medicines, but rather writings about stew.
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Three Students Decoded A 2,000 Year-Old Scroll With AI For A Whopping R13 Million Prize
08 Feb 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
The general subject of the text is pleasure, which, properly understood, is the highest good in Epicurean philosophy.
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Egypt Wants To Restore A Giza Pyramid To Its Former Glory, But Archeologists Are Not Happy [Video]
05 Feb 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
Perhaps a good compromise would be to allow the reconstruction, but only using ancient Egyptian tools and methods.
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Thursday Morning Spice
25 Jan 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
Western Cape snake handler succumbs to snouted cobra bite, Netflix shutting down cheap ad-free plan, Inside Jeff Bezos’ star-studded 60th birthday bash, US inmate faces first nitrogen execution, and British public could be called up to fight if UK goes to war.
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Thursday Morning Spice
23 Nov 2023 by Heinrich / No Comments
Penthouse magazine model sues Axl Rose of Guns N’ Roses, Jehovah’s Witnesses say goodbye to tracking proselytizing hours, Planes sent off course with unprecedented navigation system attacks, Ferrari car owner, City of Cape Town in damages spat, and Anatoli Restaurant closes its doors after 40 years.
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DNA From A Baboon Mummy Revealed The Location Of A Mysterious City Not Found On Any Maps
21 Nov 2023 by Heinrich / No Comments
Geneticists at the University of Konstanz in Germany have however released a new study on baboon DNA that shows these creatures never naturally occurred in Egypt.
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Archaeologists Found The Lost ‘Book Of The Dead’ Buried In An Egyptian Cemetery
03 Nov 2023 by Heinrich / No Comments
The book’s name may sound ominous, but the proper translation, “The Chapters/Book of Going Forth By Day”, gives it a bit more AVBOB-ish vibe at least.
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Archaeologists Unearth a Medieval Skeleton With ‘Iron Man’ Prosthetic Hand
30 Oct 2023 by Heinrich / No Comments
This period in European history was extremely bloody and saw a spike in the creation of prosthetics as injured soldiers returned from the numerous conflicts going on in the age.
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Archaeologists Discover Remnants Of ‘World’s Oldest’ Wooden Structure In Zambia [Video]
21 Sep 2023 by Maya-Rose Torrao / No Comments
The species of ancient humans or hominids responsible for building this structure remains a mystery, as no bones have yet been discovered at the site.
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Archeologists Find 1900-Year-Old Preserved Roman Swords Stashed In Dead Sea Cave [Video]
07 Sep 2023 by Maya-Rose Torrao / No Comments
The pristine weapons were stumbled upon by a team of researchers while they were photographing an ancient inscription on a stalactite.
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Medieval Girl Found Buried Face Down, Ankles Tied, To Prevent Her ‘Returning From The Grave’
18 Aug 2023 by Heinrich / No Comments
The placement of the child’s body also made the location of her burial seem significant. The girl’s body was put in a pit that had previously held a large wooden post for the entry gate of an enclosure, and the fact that her ankles were tied together shows that the community took extra measures to ensure she would not be able to ‘return from the grave’.
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Two More Victims Of The Pompeii Eruption Discovered After Almost 2 000 Years [Video]
17 May 2023 by Heinrich / No Comments
The Mount Vesuvius eruption that buried Pompeii under a blanket of hot ash in 79 AD has always held a morbid fascination for historians.
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Danish Girl Unearths Massive Viking Treasure In Cornfield
24 Apr 2023 by Heinrich / No Comments
A Danish girl found more than just beercans and bottlecaps when she ventured into a local cornfield.
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Archeologists Uncover 5 000-Year-Old Pub In Iraq
10 Feb 2023 by Heinrich / No Comments
Back before the US bombed Iraq into the stone age, the locals enjoyed a good fish stew and ale at their local pub.
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Interesting Developments Regarding UK’s Infamous Nude Giant Chalk Figure
13 May 2021 by Tayla / No Comments
The figure, carved into a hill in the English countryside, has recently undergone scientific testing, shedding light on its origins.
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Archaeologists Are Freaking Out About A Giant Sphere Found In Bosnian Forest [Video]
13 Apr 2016 by Sloane Hunter / No Comments
There’s a sphere with heavy iron content located in a forest in Bosnia, and while an archaeologist thinks it’s handmade others are less certain.
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Yes, Hobbits Did Actually Once Exist
18 Apr 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In 2003, on the remote island of Flores in Indonesia, an 18,000 year-old fossil was discovered of Homo Floresiensis, a humanoid, one metre high. The discovery of the fossil led researchers to believe that they were a unique species of human, and not in fact deformed.
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English Archeologists Find Long Lost Remains Of King Richard III – Under A Parking Lot In Leicester
04 Feb 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It’s official! Since August 2012, archeologists have suspected that the lost remains of the last English king to be slain in battle, King Richard III were buried a few feet beneath a rather ordinary parking lot in Leicester. Richard’s ruin was smote upon the fields of Battle Bosworth in 1485 at the tender age of […]
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Young Butchered Mammoth Discovered In Siberia
05 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A juvenile mammoth – nicknamed “Yuka” – was found entombed in Siberian ice near the shores of the Arctic Ocean, and shows signs of being cut open by ancient people. The frozen carcass is believed to be at least 10 000 years old – and could prove to be the first mammoth carcass revealing signs of human interaction in the region.
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Remains Of Ship Discovered Underneath Waterfront Construction Site [VIDEO]
10 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
There is great excitement in Cape Town after the discovery of a ship found buried in a pit on the construction site at the No. 1 Silo at the V&A Waterfront. Read more about the excavation process, and see a video of the process, after the jump.
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Digging Up The Real Mona Lisa
12 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Archaeologists in Florence, Italy, began searching yesterday for the remains of a woman thought to be the model who sat for Leonardo Da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa”. The reason: curiosity.
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Utah Archeologists Discover New Dinosaur – ‘Thunder Thighs’
24 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Oh, scientists. You discover an entirely new species of dinosaur on a quarry dig, and then you come up with a name for it that non-scientist people use to insult hefty folk with. I mean sure, you use the fancy Latin Brontomerus mcintoshi, but Thunder Thighs is the sort of thing people remember.
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Are You A Cat, Dog Or Fox Person?
04 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A 16 500 year-old cemetery was discovered a decade ago in Jordan and some of the findings are very interesting with regards to our bond with domesticated animals. It was discovered that, before cats and dogs, the red fox might have been man’s best friend.
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