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At the 18th-century home of a wealthy to***co plantation owner in Williamsburg, Virginia, archaeologists have found poss...
09/06/2024

At the 18th-century home of a wealthy to***co plantation owner in Williamsburg, Virginia, archaeologists have found possible evidence for the presence of enslaved gardeners. Excavations have unearthed red cedar fence posts, garden paths, animal remains, and a pierced coin possibly worn as a good luck charm. ***co

A shipwreck discovered off the coast of Scotland in the North Sea may be the HMS Hawke, a Royal Navy warship sunk by a G...
09/05/2024

A shipwreck discovered off the coast of Scotland in the North Sea may be the HMS Hawke, a Royal Navy warship sunk by a German torpedo fired from a U-boat in October of 1914 at the start of World War I.

In 1650, the Battle of Dunbar in Dunbar, Scotland began and ended within an hour in a decisive victory for the English P...
09/04/2024

In 1650, the Battle of Dunbar in Dunbar, Scotland began and ended within an hour in a decisive victory for the English Parliamentary army led by Oliver Cromwell. Read about archaeological excavations that would produce new evidence of the lives of the 4,000 Scottish Covenanting army soldiers taken prisoner in the battle's aftermath.

Archaeologists have examined the skulls of 130 men who had had strange horizontal striations on their teeth and were bur...
09/04/2024

Archaeologists have examined the skulls of 130 men who had had strange horizontal striations on their teeth and were buried across the Viking world between the 10th and 12th centuries. The researchers concluded that the majority of the individuals, who were interred in the Kopparsvik cemetery on the Swedish island of Gotland, may have been part of a class of traders recognized by these symbolic dental markings.

In southern Nigeria’s Benin City, archaeologists are excavating the royal palace in Edo, the capital of the West African...
09/03/2024

In southern Nigeria’s Benin City, archaeologists are excavating the royal palace in Edo, the capital of the West African kingdom of Benin from the 13th to 19th centuries until a 1897 British raid resulted in the theft of thousands of objects and the exile of the king, Oba Ovonramwen, and his family to Calabar.

Analysis of more than 20,000 metal objects recovered from more than 1,000 hoards dated to between 2300 and 800 B.C. and ...
09/03/2024

Analysis of more than 20,000 metal objects recovered from more than 1,000 hoards dated to between 2300 and 800 B.C. and unearthed in Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia, and Germany suggests that such objects may have been intentionally fragmented beginning around 1500 B.C. for use as currency.

A genetic study including DNA from six living members of the Blackfoot Confederacy has now provided support for the idea...
09/03/2024

A genetic study including DNA from six living members of the Blackfoot Confederacy has now provided support for the idea that their ancestors have lived on traditional Blackfoot lands in the High Plains from time immemorial.

Humans have occupied western Argentina’s Barrancas River Valley since at least the end of the last Ice Age, some 10,000 ...
09/02/2024

Humans have occupied western Argentina’s Barrancas River Valley since at least the end of the last Ice Age, some 10,000 years ago, but excavations have only recently begun turning up artifacts from many eras. These include a 9,700-year-old burial, vicuña leather slippers, obsidian pipes, glass beads, Atacama ceramics, 3,500-year-old rock art, and the “Stone Map” a large boulder engraved with 15th-century scenes of rural corrals.

Archaeological Discovery, Exceptional discovery of over 52,000 Roman Bronze Coins buried in a Gigantic Clay Jar, most wi...
08/31/2024

Archaeological Discovery, Exceptional discovery of over 52,000 Roman Bronze Coins buried in a Gigantic Clay Jar, most with image of usurper Carausius, 286-293 AD, Somerset, United Kingdom.
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The remains of two children, an adolescent, and an adult buried some 3,800 years ago with stone pendants and snail shell...
08/31/2024

The remains of two children, an adolescent, and an adult buried some 3,800 years ago with stone pendants and snail shells have been unearthed in a structure that may have been a temple at the site of Queneto located in northern Peru’s Virú Valley.

Based on an 1907 manuscript, archaeologists are tracing the origin story of the only known surviving cemí, a divine or a...
08/31/2024

Based on an 1907 manuscript, archaeologists are tracing the origin story of the only known surviving cemí, a divine or ancestral spirit made by the Indigenous Taíno people of the Caribbean. The two-foot-tall cotton 15th- or 16th-century figure was first found in a cave outside of the town of Petitrou, now known as Enriquillo, in the southwestern Dominican Republic, and dated to between 1441 and 1522.

In the center of the Belgian city of Antwerp hidden within the earthen rampart of a 19th-century fortress, archaeologist...
08/31/2024

In the center of the Belgian city of Antwerp hidden within the earthen rampart of a 19th-century fortress, archaeologists unearthed a train wagon dated to 1935 or 1936 and inscribed with LNER for London North Eastern Railway, company based in York, England.

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