Category: ARCHAEOLOGY

PARIS — Past the racks of hair accessories on the ground floor of the Monoprix supermarket on the corner of the Rue Réaumur and the Boulevard de Sébastopol in the 2nd Arrondissement, there is a door marked staff only. Slip through that passageway and turn left down a spiraling metal staircase into the cellar. Past pallets of juice and soft drink bottles, down […]

3,000-Year-Old Child Footprints Found at Site of Ancient Egyptian Palace When we think about ancient Egyptian houses of worship, entombed pharaohs and the nobility – and perhaps the slaves who built the temples – often remember themselves as the main inhabitants of the buildings. But archeological finds from a recent excavation show that children have also been placed on foot […]

Medieval coins worth more than £1 MILLION found buried in England A hoard of Medieval coins worth more than £1 MILLION has been discovered buried in a bucket in a farmer’s field. Amateur treasure hunters armed with metal detectors uncovered the rare Anglo Saxon coins near Aylesbury, Bucks., during a Christmas dig. The stunning find is one of the most significant in Britain in […]