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‘Viking’ was a job description, not a matter of heredity, massive ancient DNA study shows It was a genes-written, Viking saga. The skeletons of more than 40 powerfully built men were discovered in 2008 on an isolated Estonian beach beside the town of Salme. About 750 C.E. they were buried. Viking-style Weapons and treasure in two ships — apparently the aftermath […]

Roman Fort Discovered Hidden Beneath English Bus Station Archaeologists who explored a bus station in Exeter, England discovered evidence of a military fort dating from Britain’s Roman, the local city council reported this week. According to a press release, workers who dig up the structure — constructed during the early 1960s and scheduled to be replaced by a new station […]

Ancient Inca Artifact Discovered in Florida Points to a $4 billion Sunken Treasure Hoard An undersea treasure hunter has found a possible ancient Peruvian artefact near Melbourne Beach which could be carried by the doomed  Spanish Plate Fleet in 1715. Mike Torres, chief technology officer of Seafarer Exploration said–“I thought it was scrap. I thought it was a NASA scrap, honestly. […]

Cologne Archaeologists Unearth Foundations of Germany’s Oldest Known Library A bibliophile dream lies beneath the ground in Cologne, Germany: an ancient Roman library that once had up to 20,000 scrolls, according to news reports. In 2017, archaeologists found the epic structure as they excavated the grounds of a Protestant church to build a new community centre. Considering that Cologne is […]

Viking warriors and treasures are buried beneath Dublin Archaeologists say—The number of Viking warrior burials in Dublin is incredible. In 1999, a project was launched to catalogue these burials and the findings were published in 2014. The 800-page tome, the result of the investigations was entitled ‘Ireland’s Viking Graves and Grave Goods.’ Stephen Harrison, who co-wrote the catalog with Raghnall Ó […]

ARCHAEOLOGISTS discovered a “graveyard of ships” in the Mediterranean, shedding new light on Roman vessels which sank nearly 2000 years ago. The seabed was searched by a team of archaeologists using sonar technology and they found a graveyard of five ancient roman shipwrecks left in untouched conditions. The discovery took place on Ventotene ‘s small Italian island, where five trading vessels […]

Court rules 1565 shipwreck found off the Florida coast belongs to France because the vessel was made there, and NOT to the salvage company which discovered it After two years of a U.S. company announcing the discovery of a wrecked ship off Cape Canaveral, Florida that had three bronze cannons, each worth over $1 million, and stunning marble monuments, the Florida […]

Scientists Reconstruct The Mutilated Face Of A 1,000-Year-Old Female Viking Warrior Scientists have recreated the face of a Viking female warrior who lived over 1,000 years ago. The woman is based on a skeleton found in a Viking Cemetery in Solør, Norway, and is now preserved in the Cultural History Museum in Oslo. Archaeologist Ella Al-Shamahi said—The remains were already […]

A drone helped archaeologists discover a lost Florida island settlement A major pre-Columbian settlement in Florida has been discovered by archaeologists using the latest drone and radar technologies. They find what seems to be a significant settlement on the Raleigh Island. The experts have found proof that could change Florida’s and neighbouring states’ history. The settlement was located on Florida’s northern Gulf Coast. […]

Roman Temple Discovered Under a Farmhouse in Malta Malta lies in the very heart of the Mediterranean and there are many historical ruins and sites that attest to this fact. There is also another feature added to the list. Archaeologists made an incredible discovery while they were working on a restoration project at a famous temple complex at Tas-Silġ. They […]