Over 1,000 Burials Found at Medieval Cemetery Under Cambridge University

Over 1,000 Burials Found at Medieval Cemetery Under Cambridge University

Over 1,000 Burials Found at Medieval Cemetery Under Cambridge University Lost medieval cemetery found under Cambridge University: The mass cemetery contained around about 1,000 burials, including about 400 complete skeletons. A lost medieval cemetery discovered under Cambridge University contained graves that had been pre-dug in anticipation of winter deaths, archaeologists have Found. The huge graveyard was found during Exavation Under the Old Divinity […]

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Dinosaur DNA Found Remarkably Preserved in 75 Million-Year-Old Fossil

Dinosaur DNA Found Remarkably Preserved in 75 Million Year-Old Fossil

Dinosaur DNA Found Remarkably Preserved in 75 Million-Year-Old Fossil Cartilage cells, chromosomes and DNA were found preserved in the baby duck-billed dinosaur 75 million-year-old fossils, according to a study. Skull fragments of young, nest-bound Hypacrosaurus specimens unarthed in Montana’s US from the ‘ Two Medicine Formation ‘ were analyzed by researchers. These organic material should not historically remain intact for so long […]

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24 carat gold jewellery made 6,600 years ago found at prehistoric settlement in Bulgaria

24 carat gold jewellery made 6,600 years ago found at prehistoric settlement in Bulgaria

24-carat gold jewellery made 6,600 years ago found at prehistoric settlement in Bulgaria Archeologists from the National Archeology Institute of Bulgaria published details of the research carried out in the vicinity of modern-day Provadia and near the existing archeological site of Varna. They had probably located Solnitsata, the oldest city in Europe. The archeological community was amazed by the sophistication […]

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Fascinating history buried deep below St Bride’s Church, London.

Fascinating history buried deep below St Bride’s Church, London.

Fascinating history buried deep below St Bride’s Church, London. Designed by Christopher Wren in the late 17th century, St. Bride’s Church is a familiar part of the London skyline and has long been known as the “journalists’ church,” thanks to its location in the traditional hub of the British newspaper industry. One of its most intriguing features, however, had been completely […]

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World War II: The Battle of Wizna – Around 800 Polish soldiers held off 42,000 Nazi soldiers for three days

World War II: The Battle of Wizna – Around 800 Polish soldiers held off 42,000 Nazi soldiers for three days

World War II: The Battle of Wizna – Around 800 Polish soldiers held off 42,000 Nazi soldiers for three days The “Battle of Wizna” took place between September 7 and September 8. It is often referred to as “the Polish Thermopylae,” a reference to three hundred Spartans, who bravely held off an enormous Persian army in Ancient Greece. Polish historian […]

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The Mont’e Prama Giants: A Massive Archaeological Mystery

The Mont’e Prama Giants: A Massive Archaeological Mystery

The Mont’e Prama Giants: A Massive Archaeological Mystery The Mont’e Prama Giants are two to two and a half meter high sculptures believed to have been created by the Nuragic civilization, an ancient culture that inhabited the island of Sardinia between the XVIII and II centuries AD. Interestingly, NO written records of this civilization have been discovered apart from a few […]

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Celtic shield buried with Bronze Age warrior 2,000 years ago is ‘UK’s most important find’

Celtic shield buried with Bronze Age warrior 2,000 years ago is ‘UK’s most important find’

Celtic shield buried with Bronze Age warrior 2,000 years ago is ‘UK’s most important find’ Archeologists uncovered an amazing Iron Age shield within a 2,200-year-old tomb together with a cart and two ponies hidden in a springing location, in what archeologists call one of the UK’s biggest discoveries. The grave in the vicinity of Pocklington was found by a group […]

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Ancient Egyptian Inscriptions Found at Amethyst Mining Site

Ancient Egyptian Inscriptions Found at Amethyst Mining Site

Ancient Egyptian Inscriptions Found at Amethyst Mining Site Archaeologists have uncovered more than 100 ancient inscriptions carved into the rock at Wadi el-Hudi, where the ancient Egyptians mined amethyst. In addition to the carved-rock inscription, the researchers also found 14 steles (inscriptions carved on a stone slab or pillar) and 45 ostraca (inscriptions written on pieces of pottery). Analysis of the newfound […]

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