Category: ARCHAEOLOGY

14th-Century Medieval Black Death skeletons unearthed by Crossrail project in London A railway construction project in central London has turned up the skeletons of 13 casualties of the Black Death. The find is a reminder of how much history sits underneath urbanized areas in the United Kingdom. Archaeologists in Leicester announced that they’d found the bones of the lost monarch Richard III underneath a […]

Archaeologists in southern England have found what may be one of the largest medieval royal palaces ever found – buried under the ground inside a vast prehistoric fortress. The probable 12th-century castle was discovered by archaeologists, using geophysical ground-penetrating ‘x-ray’ technology to map a long-vanished medieval city which has lain under grass on the site for more than 700 years. Situated […]

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 […]

Romance continues – even when you’re dead. Researchers have found a Renaissance man had his heart removed after he died and buried with his beloved wife.  Toussaint de Perrien, who passed on 30 August 1649 had his heart put in an urn and buried with his wife – who was laid to rest 125 miles away. The body of his wife, Louise de Quengo, had […]

Archaeologist Found America’s first dogs that came from Siberia, disappeared after European contact A study reported in the journal Science offers an enhanced view of the origins and ultimate fate of the first dogs in the Americas. The dogs were not domesticated North American wolves, as some have speculated, yet likely followed their human counterparts over a land bridge that once connected North Asia and the Americas, […]

Archaeologists Discover the Answer Behind the Mystery of the ‘Screaming Mummy’  Over 100 years after, a group of Egyptologists, accompanied by National Geographic, reopened the case of Unknown Man E, who came to be known as the ‘Screaming Mummy’ mystery from ancient Egypt has baffled specialists for years but the secret behind the horrifying remains has finally been resolved. When archaeologists first uncovered the mummified […]

Fifty beheaded young men found in a burial pit at a 2012 Olympics building site were most executed Vikings. About 50 skeletons were found in an old quarry pit at Ridgeway Hill, in Dorset, in 2009, amid the construction of the Weymouth relief road. All had been decapitated – their bodies were thrown into shallow graves with their heads piled up to […]

Archaeological Mysteries Solved, Weapons reveal how this 5,300-year-old ice mummy lived — and died Although he is older than the Giza pyramids and Stonehenge, the 5,300–year–old mummy of Otzi the Tyrolean Iceman continues to teach us things. The latest study of the weapons he was found with, published in the journal PLOS ONE on Wednesday, reveals that Otzi was right-handed and had recently resharpened and reshaped a number of his tools before […]