‘Bathtub rings’ around Titan’s lakes might be made of alien crystals Titan is a weird place. Bigger than the planet Mercury, it has an atmosphere, and it rains and snows. There are liquid lakes and oceans of methane and ethane on the surface, but of water underground. Titan also has strange minerals that don’t exist on Earth, according to research […]
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Bronze artefact reveals lions roared in for the kill in Roman Leicester Archaeologists have discovered a bronze key handle that shows lions were used in executions in Roman Britain. The handle, which depicts a “Barbarian” wrestling with a lion, was discovered beneath a Roman townhouse in Leicester’s Great Central Street. It also shows figures of four boys cowering in terror. […]
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Well Preserved Cave Lion Cub Found to be a 28,000-Year-Old Female A nearly 28,000-year-old cave lion cub discovered frozen in the Siberian permafrost, is so well preserved, you can still make out each and every one of her whiskers. Researchers in Sweden claim the cub, nicknamed Sparta, is probably the best-preserved Ice Age animal ever uncovered and describe Sparta in […]
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Scientists discover hundreds of thousands of animal, human bones in Saudi Arabia cave Although hyenas look and hunt like canines, they’re members of the mongoose family and therefore more closely related to a cat. However, just like dogs, hyenas have an affinity for hiding bones — it’s just that they can tend to go a bit overboard. Case in point, […]
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Iron Age Chariot Burial Site Found – Complete with Horse and Rider An Iron Age chariot has been discovered buried in a Yorkshire village for the second time in two years. The find was found at a building site in Pocklington, England, where more than 200 homes are being built. Archaeologists are trying to properly dig the discovery as of […]
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Evidence of 2,800-year-old biblical earthquake found in Jerusalem Books of Amos and Zechariah in the Old Testament describe an earthquake that rocked the city of Jerusalem about 2,800 years ago and archaeologists have now found the first evidence of the biblical event. The Israel Antiquities Authority’s (IAA) excavations in the City of David National Park uncovered a layer of destruction during excavations, […]
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9,000-Year-Old Stonehenge-Like Structure Found Under Lake Michigan Archaeologists found something much more fascinating than they got credit for when searching under the waters of Lake Michigan for shipwrecks: they uncovered a rock with a prehistoric carving of a mastodon, as well as a collection of stones arranged in a Stonehenge-like manner. Gazing into the water In modern archaeology, the use […]
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Sediments from Lake in Japan Reveal Stable Climate Led to Origin of Agriculture The advent of agriculture was a significant turning point in the history of modern humans, beyond which humans started living a sedentary life and formed a so-called “civilization.” However, the environmental factors responsible for this revolutionary change in human lifestyle have been unclear for quite a long. […]
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Inscription of last Babylonian king found in Saudi Arabia, ‘special’ message written in 26 lines? A 2,550-year-old inscription, written in the name of Nabonidus, the last king of Babylon, has been discovered carved on basalt stone in northern Saudi Arabia, the Saudi Commission for Tourism and National Heritage recently announced. An engraving at the top of the inscription shows King […]
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Archaeologists Find Submerged Roman Road in Venice Lagoon In the Venice lagoon, an ancient and now submerged road was unearthed in a location that would have been accessible by land 2,000 years ago during the Roman era. Fantina Madricardo at the Marine Science Institute in Venice and her colleagues made the discovery after mapping the floor of an area of the […]
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