Some off-roaders in Southern Illinois have caused serious damage to, and possible looted, ancient American Indian burial grounds at the Kincaid Mounds State Historic Site. More damage was done to the site recently when an all-terrain vehicle or truck was driven on one of the mounds, where “No Trespassing” signs are posted and ATVs are [...]
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Divers working in the Stockholm archipelago believe they have discovered the wreck of the legendary Swedish royal ship the “Resande ...
Experts from the Greek Department of Underwater Antiquities and the Greek Center for Marine Research have discovered two Roman-era shipwrecks almost a mile deep on the Ionian seabed off the islands of Corfu and Paxoi. The ships were found during an archaeological survey that took place between May 11th and May 17th over a 200 [...]
Research carried out on more than 300 Neolithic burials has revealed that those buried with tools had access to better land than those buried without them. The project was led by professor Alasdair Whittle from Cardiff University’s school of history, archaeology and religion, and involved studying more than 300 skeletons across central Europe. The researchers [...]
The remains of two wooden shipwrecks, complete with potter and marble artifacts, have been found off the western coast of Greece. A ministry statement says the wreckage was found in an area where a Greek-Italian gas pipeline is to be located, the Associated Press reports. A Greek oceanographic vessel using side-scan radar and robot submarines [...]
An ancient stone anchor has been found Gulf of Kutch in northwestern India and is now giving researchers new clues into Indo-Arab trade. “Ancient stone anchors serve to understand maritime contacts of India with other parts of the world… Arabs sailed the Indian Ocean and used the type of anchors under study since the 9th [...]
The remains of a ship found in the Solent in 2003 has been identified as The Flower of Ugie, which sank in 1852. The trust said the wreck was that of the Flower of Ugie, a 19th century wooden sailing barque that sank in the Solent on December 27, 1852 following a great storm in [...]
Italian police have seized over 16,000 artifacts after investigating 70 people for illegally looting and selling their finds on eBay. The investigation began when the police found an eBay announcement in 2009 and they tracked down a father and son team of tomb raiders in a village in Calabria in southern Italy who had dug [...]
Archaeologists working at Tel Megiddo in northern Israel have unearthed a vessel containing a collection of gold and silver jewelry. The researchers believe that the collection, which was discovered in the remains of a private home in the northern part of Megiddo, belongs to a time period called “Iron I,” and that at least some [...]
37 early Paleolithic stone tools have been found at the Luihusaishan site in Guangxi, China. The stone artifact assemblage included cores, flakes, chunks, choppers and chopping tools, and picks, which were mainly made of quartzite, silicarenite and siltstone. The size of all artifacts was large and most of the tools were retouched on pebbles. The [...]
A deadly earthquake in northeast Italy yesterday has caused serious damage to some of the region’s historical buildings. The earthquake and a powerful aftershock that followed it on Sunday brought down the belltower in Finale Emilia — the shocking image of the tower was on the front pages of many newspapers on Monday as Italy [...]
The remains of a buffalo sacrificed in 1402 has been found beneath a wall at the Ho Citadel in Vietnam. Vu The Long, of the Viet Nam Institute of Archaeology, said the find was a big surprise for scientists as nothing similar had been found at the worshipping platforms of different dynasties across the country. [...]