Tagged: archeology

A shipwreck sunk 2,600 years ago, off the coast of Gela in southern Sicily and the story of this ship is still fascinating today. The ship – dated to the first half of the sixth century – was on its way to Gela in Sicily,...

For many centuries, historians have debated over the collapse of the Aztec empire in the 1500s. For the first time ever, scientists have found DNA evidence of an epidemic, which killed 80 percent of the population. When the Spaniards arrived in 1519 to Mexico, the...

– We have seen on previous occasions that ancient shoes can look quite modern. These Tudor shoes were discovered beneath London by Crossrail diggers and the artifacts revealed fascinating insights into the daily lives of people living in the area during the 16th and 17th...

– A unique 500-year-old Aztec document is now studied by a team of researchers from the Faculty of “Artes Liberales” at the University of Warsaw. The document (a fragment of the register), found in the library of the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland, contains 80...

Some 1,400 years ago, a Pictish man was brutally murdered and his skeleton was recently discovered in a cave on the coast of the Black Isle peninsula, in the Scottish Highlands. Archaeologists found evidence that the cave had been used for iron-smithing during the Pictish...

– A mysterious Stone Age labyrinth has been discovered at Stevns in Denmark. For the moment, it remains unknown why the labyrinth was constructed and what purpose it served. Discovered by archaeologists from the Museum Southeast Denmark, this particular fence dates from the Neolithic period...

– Archaeologists in Angus, Scotland have reason to be excited. They have unearthed a 3,000-year-old spearhead embellished with gold. The artifact was used as a weapon and scientists call it the “find of a lifetime.” The presence of gold ornament on the spearhead makes it...

– Scientists have found what they believe is the world’s oldest emoji – a smiley face scrawled in a legal document dating back to 1635. So, now, it seems the history of the emoji is older than previously thought. Emoji is of Japanese origin, created...

The ancient city of Pi-Ramesses (“the House of Ramses”) was once the capital of Egypt during the reign of Ramesses II, the third pharaoh of the 19th dynasty. He was one of the most powerful and influential pharaohs and built large temples, residences, storehouses, docks,...

– Until recently, it was believed that only 11 caves contained the mysterious Dead Sea Scrolls that have long fascinated archaeologists, historians and Biblical scholars. Now scientists have made what they call “one of the most exciting archaeological discoveries, and the most important in the...