The search for the missing in the submerged portions of the Costa Concordia has ended due to concerns for the safety of the rescue workers. The estimated toll from the sinking stands at 33 dead or missing. The bodies of … Continue reading →
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Here on the Sea Hunter docked at Pier 1 in East Boston, the crew is getting ready to get their shipwrecked treasure. ...
Using state-of-the-art chemical forensics, it took a team of scientists at LEAST a few hours, if not days, to identify this debris that washed up on a Gulf Coast beach. [...]
A kiln which was used by the Zapotec 1,300 years ago has been found in the Atzompa Archaeology Site in Oaxaca, Mexico. “Preliminarily, it was assumed that it might date from the first occupation years of the site, between 650 and 900 of the Common Era, more than 1,300 years ago, parting from associated ceramic [...]
The Portland, ME based, Sub Sea Research (SSR) recently sent out a press release announcing that they had located what they claim to be “the worlds richest shipwreck,” the British freighter, SS Port Nicholson, carrying a secret cargo of 71 tons of platinum, … Continue reading →
Ancient pottery and artifacts have been uncovered on the island of Tinian which could help researchers learn how people first came to the area. As the theory goes, about 3,000 to 3,500 years ago, sea levels around Asia began to drop, Peterson said. The main road in Tumon, for example, would have been completely under [...]
Prostate cancer has been discovered in an Egyptian mummy which dates back 2,200 years. AUC professor Salima Ikram, a member of the team that studied the mummy in Portugal for two years, said Sunday the mummy was of a man who died in his forties. She said this was the second oldest known case of [...]
Twenty three boats set off this weekend in the the third Bouvet Guyane Solo Atlantic Rowing Race 2012 in a 2,600 mile race between between Senegal and Guyana. All solo rowers are competing in identical 8 meter long boats. One major challenge of … Continue reading →
The Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge, which bills itself as the “world’s toughest rowing race,” is winding down. Of the 17 boats which set out on December 4th, seven boats have crossed the finish line in Barbados, four are still rowing, … Continue reading →
Carnival’s CEO & Chairman, Micki Arinson has been criticized for maintaining a low profile following the sinking of the Costa Concordia where over 30 passengers and crew are dead or missing. Last Friday, he made what was believed to be his … Continue reading →
While on peace time maneuvers off Libya on June 22, 1893, Vice Admiral George Tryon, the commander of the British Mediterranean Fleet, gave a series of orders that resulted in HMS Camperdown ramming his ship, HMS Victoria, which sank with the loss of 358 lives, including … Continue reading →
LiveScience has posted an interesting article about how archaeologists are using digital technologies to document excavations. In previous eras, researchers logged their data in notebooks, which were preserved along with photographs, maps and objects, in a physical archive. Rabinowitz can still access the notebooks and negatives of people who conducted research more than a hundred [...]
The investigation is ongoing as to why the MV Delta Mariner collided with the Eggner Ferry Bridge on the Tennessee River in Kentucky last Thursday night, taking out over 300′ of the span, but reportedly, the ship was in the wrong channel. … Continue reading →
Archaeologists working in Sudan have found a long-lost temple which dates back to the Meroe period. The large temple compound is situated 130 km northwards of Khartoum. European travellers saw the remains of the temple in the early 19th century but then the temple disappeared in the desert, said Onderka who leads the Czech archaeology [...]
For years the hill-fort known as the Mound of Down in Ireland has been hidden because of the trees growing across its surface. Now it is being cleared of those trees to expose the fortifications. The enclosure is defined by a massive bank and ditch that encircles what was once a drumlin island in the [...]
One of the busiest slave ports in the Americas has been uncovered in Rio de Janerio after being buried for almost 200 years. Not far from here at least 500,000 Africans took their first steps into slavery in colonial Brazil, which took in far more slaves than the United States and where now half of [...]
Britain’s oldest house, found at the Star Carr Mesolithic site in North Yorkshire, is being threatened by its deteriorating surroundings. “The water table has fallen and the peat is shrinking and it is severely damaging the archaeology,” she said. “The water keeps the oxygen and bacteria out and because they are now going into these [...]
Researchers believe a mass grave found in Cambridge in 2009 contains the bodies of 54 decapitated viking mercenaries. Unlike the frenzied mob attack that took place at Oxford, all the men were murdered methodically and beheaded in an unusual fashion from the front. The Cambridge academic said she believed the skeletons belonged to a group [...]
Researchers are using underwater robots to search for Minoan shipwrecks in the Aegean sea. His four-week survey of the waters around Crete last October is part of a long-term effort to catalogue large numbers of ancient shipwrecks in the Aegean Sea. And the grand prize would be a wreck from one of the most influential [...]
Construction workers in Belize have uncovered Maya artifacts and human remains. “What we have here are three jars or ollas as they call them in Spanish and by the style of it, by the way they were made we know that they date to the late Pre-classic period or between 300 BC to about the [...]
A 1,600-year-old harbor town called Bathonea has been revealed after drought lowered the water level in Lake Kucukcekmece in Turkey. The find is Bathonea, a substantial harbor town dating from the second century B.C. Discovered in 2007 after a drought lowered the lake’s water table, it has been yielding a trove of relics from the [...]
The wreckage of The Royal Charlotte, a convict and trop transporter en route to India in 1825, has been found off the coast of Queensland, Australia. The Royal Charlotte, a convict and troop transporter, was en route to India with a contingent of troops when it sank in a gale on Frederick Reef in 1825. [...]
A puzzling “winged” Roman structure which may have been used as a temple has been found in Norfolk, England. “Generally speaking, [during] the Roman Empire people built within a fixed repertoire of architectural forms,” said William Bowden, a professor at the University of Nottingham, who reported the find in the most recent edition of the [...]
An academic in Oxford has discovered 14 previously unknown letters written by the famous writer Voltaire. They include a signed acceptance from the 18th Century writer for a £200 grant from the Royal Family. The writer abandoned the French spelling of his first name, Francois, styling himself “Francis”. Professor Nicholas Cronk says Voltaire was “hugely [...]
Here is an exceptionally interesting list detailing the 10 most important archaeological discoveries found in Greece last year. 1) A small 2,500-year old wooden statue in perfect conditions. The impressive find was made in the Sanctuary of Artemis in Vravrona during building works on the archaeological site’s drainage well. Other objects were found alongside the statuette, all [...]
Late in this past Thursday’s sun-drenched afternoon, the Lady Washington and the Hawaiian Chieftain arrived in Ventura County’s Channel Islands Harbor, following their passage north from Oceanside Harbor. Both ships finalized their arrival with single shot cannon salutes, their reports echoing through the harbor. The two, full-scale reproduction tall ships are here as part of [...]