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The earliest known evidence of aurora borealis found in ancient Chinese chronicles

Ancient Chinese writing mentions a celestial phenomenon, which turns out to be the oldest known evidence of potential aurora borealis, preceding the next oldest by about 300 years. The celestial event mentioned in an ancient...

Coins with Cleopatra and ritual room found in Egypt

Ancient treasures. Coins with Cleopatra and ritual room found in Egypt Archaeologists discovered these stunning finds while searching for the remains of a vast Roman-era complex. During a recent excavation at a site west of Alexandria,...

Treasure of 1290 coins found by an amateur with a metal detector in Switzerland

Amateur archaeologist Daniel Ludin discovered a cache of fragments of pottery and coins dating back to around 330 AD near the 13th-century Wildenstein Castle in Switzerland with a metal detector. He sought help from specialists...

A dead zone was found in the Black Sea – ships have been stored there for thousands of years

Dozens of ancient ships that have survived to this day are stored in this region. Hundreds of sunken ships rot in the depths of the sea, the legendary Titanic dissolves and disappears in the Atlantic...

Archaeologists have discovered a fragment of a thousand-year-old medieval hand grenade

Archaeologists have studied the remains of four ceramic pots from the collection of the Royal Ontario Museum. They were found in the vicinity of the Armenian Garden in Jerusalem, they are dated to the...

Archaeologists with an incredible find in Nessebar churches

Nessebar, Bulgaria 24 Apr. 2022. Author: BLITZ Modern photographic computer technology is applied in Bulgaria at a limited number of sites Almost 360 drawings of ships on the walls of four churches in Nessebar have been...

Valuable antique discovered in the Gaza Strip

It was found by a farmer cultivating his land A 4,500-year-old stone statuette depicting the face of an ancient goddess has been discovered in southern Gaza, archaeologists in the Palestinian enclave say. Made of limestone and...

Villa of King Theodoric the Great found in Italy

In Italy, near the city of Verona, archaeologists have discovered part of an ancient Roman mosaic floor from the villa of Theodoric the Great, king of the Ostrogoths. Presumably, it was created in the...

Volcanoes contributed to the collapse of the Chinese dynasties

Large volcanic eruptions, as you know, are capable of creating the effect of nuclear winter - blocking sunlight (this leads not only to a decrease in temperature on Earth, but also to a weakening...

Treasures of a lost civilization, mentioned in a famous book of fairy tales, found

Marine archaeologists have made a statement about the discovery of the possible location of the kingdom of Srivijaya, which centuries ago was considered extremely powerful. The treasures of the empire, which mysteriously disappeared in...

Traces of a “parallel” civilization to Ancient Egypt have been discovered

An international team of archaeologists who have been working on the banks of the Nile in Sudan for many years has published data on numerous tombs of Nubian civilization. The study of scientists found...

Remains of ancient people in a cave in Bulgaria rewrite the first settlement in Europe

The discovery of 45,000-year-old human remains in Bulgaria's Bacho Kiro Cave has forced scientists to reconsider the existing theory that the first representatives of Homo Sapiens came to Eurasia from Africa. The remains of...

Archaeologists unearth grim Roman find in Wales

The remains of a Roman-era mercenary and his decapitated victim have been discovered at an archaeological site in the Welsh Vale of Glamorgan. Mark Collard, an archaeologist and head of the Rubicon Heritage excavation project,...

A robot dog guards the ruins of Pompeii

The ruins of Pompeii recently have a new guard. Guard dog, but not ordinary, but entirely mechanical. The four-legged Spot robot is the latest high-tech introduction to the archeological park, which attracts millions of...

A farmer discovered a 3,300-year-old gold bracelet

While plowing his fields, a farmer stumbled upon a unique 3,300-year-old ancient bracelet from the Hittite era. The farmer, who lives in the village of Chitli, near the town of Corum in central Turkey, found...

The most valuable coin in the world, minted by the assassin of Julius Caesar, for sale

Some define it as the Holy Grail in numismatics, for others it is just an investment, for others it is the bloody steam cut in praise of the most dramatic scene in Roman history. One...

A museum of Islamic civilizations has opened in Turkey’s largest mosque

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has opened the Museum of Islamic Civilizations at the Grand Mosque of Chamlaca. It is the largest mosque in the country, which was recently built in the Uskudar district...

The Vikings were 1,000 years ahead of Columbus

Wood from an ancient settlement on the Canadian island of Newfoundland testifies that long before Christopher Columbus crossed the Atlantic Ocean, the Vikings were the first to reach the New World, Reuters and AFP...

Genetic history of the Europeans studied

Modern Europeans owe their blue eyes to hunter-gatherers, their height to Asian nomads and their blond hair to Anatolian Neolithic farmers, Maylonline reported. Estonian and Italian researchers have looked at how ancient human crossbreeding has...

1,200-year-old artificial island found

A team of British archaeologists led by Professor Robert Carter has found that Bahrain's Al Sayyah Island was made by man about 1,200 years ago, reported The Daily Tribune from Bahrain. Previously, researchers believed that...

German archaeologists froze a medieval children’s burial with a dog with liquid nitrogen

German archaeologists discovered in Bavaria a rich burial of a boy of the 7th century AD, at whose feet lay the remains of a dog. Inside the tomb were perfectly preserved gold and silver...

Scientists have verified the authenticity of the headdress of the last ruler of the Aztecs

It turned out that this is not a headdress at all. The feather object, which has long been mistaken by scholars for the headdress of Cuautemoc (the last Aztec ruler of the Acamapichtli dynasty), is...

The oldest herd of dinosaurs found

Excavations in Argentina reveal that dinosaurs lived in herds as early as 193 million years ago Researchers from Argentina, the United States and South Africa have found evidence of herding in sauropodomorphs, a group of...

Large treasure of Roman silver found in Germany

In Germany, the archaeologists of the city of Augsburg have discovered end of last year the largest hoard of Roman coins ever discovered in Bavaria. It consists of coins about 1900 years old. According to...

The Great Pyramid of Cheops will be studied using cosmic rays

A team of scientists will use advances in high-energy physics to scan the Great Pyramid of Cheops at Giza using cosmic ray muons. The researchers want to look deeper into one of the seven wonders...
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