El hallazgo de una gigantesca tortuga dorada enterrada por milenios
En una historia que resuena en el tiempo, recientemente hice un descubrimiento profundo: una colosal tortuga dorada escondida en lo profundo de una cueva, intacta durante decenas de miles de…
Read moreTesoro de 600 monedas medievales: Hallazgo declarado y posibilidad de gran recompensa.
Se descubrió en Buckinghamshire un tesoro de 600 monedas medievales por valor de 150.000 libras esterlinas. Dariusz Fijalkowski, Mateusz Nowak Andrew Winter y Tobiasz Nowak descubrieron el tesoro escondido El…
Read moreEncuentro fortuito: Hombre descubre cofre con 9.999 lingotes de oro desde la Segunda Guerra Mundial (vídeo)
Descubrimiento de Fortυitoυs: Map Fiпds 9,999 lingotes de oro abandonados en la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Un golpe de suerte le llegó a un mapa de Europa cuando encontró un cofre…
Read morePrehistoric piercings may have been coming-of-age ritual
Diagram showing examples of the ornaments found and indicating how they may have been worn. Credit: Antiquity (2024). DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2024.28 Archaeologists have discovered more than 100 ornaments for use in…
Read moreArcheoastronomy uses the rare times and places of previous total solar eclipses to help us measure history
A photograph of the 2017 total solar eclipse, taken at the Oregon State Fair Grounds, Salem, Ore. Credit: Dominic Hart/NASA In 648 BCE, the Greek poet Archilochus wrote that “nothing…
Read moreHuman activity on Curaçao began centuries earlier than previously believed, study finds
New research, co-led by SFU and published in the Journal of Coastal and Island Archaeology, places human occupation of Curaçao as far back as 5735–5600 BCE, up to 850 years…
Read moreNew evidence suggests Ötzi the Iceman’s tattoos were made using a single-pointed tool
This shows tattoo artist Danny Riday tattooing his own leg using a bone awl made from white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus). This variety of puncture tattooing, colloquially known as “hand poke”…
Read moreStudy reveals ‘cozy domesticity’ of prehistoric stilt-house dwellers in England’s ancient marshland
An illustrated reconstruction of the Bronze Age stilt settlement unearthed at Must Farm in the East of England. Credit: Cambridge Archaeological Unit A major report on the remains of a…
Read moreNew archive of ancient human brains challenges misconceptions of soft tissue preservation
Fragments of brain from an individual buried in a Victorian workhouse cemetery (Bristol, UK), some 200 years ago. No other soft tissue survived among the bones, which were dredged from…
Read moreTudor era horse cemetery in Westminster revealed as likely resting place for elite imported animals
Exeter researchers analyzing bones recovered from the horse cemetery. Credit: University of Exeter Archaeological analysis of a near unique animal cemetery discovered in London nearly 30 years ago has revealed…
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