• Improperly Installed Steering Equipment Caused 2011 Grounding of Brand New Bulker

    Updated: 2012-07-31 00:15:08
    Australia’s Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) announced Monday that an improperly installed piece of steering gear caused the April 2011 grounding of a practically brand new bulk carrier off the coast [...]

  • Scuba Diving Log Book Entry: Kahe Pt, Oahu, HI

    Updated: 2012-07-30 22:13:19
    : , , Diver : Name John . C Dive : Date 16Jun2012 Dive : Location Kahe Pt , Oahu , HI Max : Depth 28 ft Total Bottom : Time 42 min Notes : Comments While diving with 5 students on open water dive 2 we saw two jetskis pass overhead and moments later saw a first for me a real live mermaid To be fair a photgrapher had jumped off the jet-ski with her for some underwater photo-shoot One to remeber : Votes 1 Vote for this entry View All Entries

  • Conditions Improve On Board MSC Flaminia

    Updated: 2012-07-30 22:11:11
    The burnt out MSC Flaminia, along with the small flotilla of firefighting tugs, have anchored off the British coast as crews work to extinguish any leftover hotspots but overall conditions [...]

  • Last Pieces of MV Tycoon Hauled Off Christmas Island

    Updated: 2012-07-30 21:11:48
    More than six months after wrecking on the jagged cliffs of Australia’s Christmas Island, the last remaining pieces of the M/V Tycoon have been removed and crews are going home. [...]

  • Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican exhibition in Dallas

    Updated: 2012-07-29 11:00:12
    Children of the Plumed Serpent: The Legacy of Quetzalcoatl in Ancient Mexico is at the Dallas Museum of Art through November 25.

  • Tooth protruding from rock leads researchers to hominin remains

    Updated: 2012-07-26 18:23:48
    A CT scan performed on a lump of rock at the University of Witwatersrand has revealed that it contains parts of an early hominin. Last month a prehistoric tooth protruding from a boulder tipped off researchers to hidden evolutionary treasure: remarkably complete human-ancestor fossils trapped in a rock that had been sitting in their lab [...]

  • Poop: The oldest direct evidence of people in America

    Updated: 2012-07-26 00:21:28
    Human coprolites (fossilized poop) found in Oregon’s Paisley Caves have been dated back 14,500 years, making them the oldest direct evidence of people in America. Some of the most interesting discoveries in archaeology come from sifting through ancient garbage dumps. Scientists working in Oregon have found one that has yielded what they say are the [...]

  • Musket recovered from 18th century shipwreck

    Updated: 2012-07-25 21:16:56
    Archaeologists working off the coast of Florida have salvaged a musket, sword and bottleneck from an 18th century shipwreck. The three artifacts, raised from about 30 feet underwater, were stuck together and covered with a buildup of sand, shell particles and coral after years of corrosion under water. They were found at the Storm Wreck [...]

  • Ancient temple to Demeter unearthed in Sicily

    Updated: 2012-07-25 18:10:46
    An ancient temple dedicated to Demeter, which dates back to 570 B.C., has been found at the ancient site of Selinunte in Sicily. These findings are critically important in helping archeologists to date the temple where they were found, to around the 6th century BC – possibly the oldest in the archaeological area of Selinunte [...]

  • 63,000-year-old stone tools found in Yemen

    Updated: 2012-07-24 18:09:15
    Stone Age tools found in Yemen show humans settled in Arabia 63,000 years ago. One new site is the study’s subject, Shi’bat Dihya, located along the Wadi Sudud (see map below). Excavating down to a level dating to perhaps 63,000 years ago, when the region was quite arid, the team found some “5,488 artifacts” — [...]

  • Ancient cemetery discovered in Iran

    Updated: 2012-07-24 00:47:41
    A cemetery containing over 500 graves, some of which date back 3,500 years, has been discovered in southwestern Iran. The team has excavated over 20 graves so far in the cemetery located in the Taj Amir region near the city of Yasuj in south of Iran, he added. Many artifacts such as pottery, stone, bronze, [...]

  • The oldest olive pit in Britain

    Updated: 2012-07-23 21:56:52
    A charred olive pit which dates back to the 1st century B.C. has been found in a well in Hampshire, England. Iron Age Britons were importing olives from the Mediterranean a century before the Romans arrived with their exotic tastes in food, say archaeologists who have discovered a single olive stone from an excavation of [...]

  • Ancient wine found in Chinese tomb

    Updated: 2012-07-20 16:14:06
    Liquid wine that dates back to the West Zhou Dynasty (1046 B.C. – 771 B.C.) has been found inside a tomb unearthed in China’s Shaanxi province. The wine vessel made of bronze was found in a tomb of a noble man of the dynasty in Shigushan Mountain in Baoji city, Xinhua reported. The liquid is [...]

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