An ancient jar is back on display at a museum in Israel nearly two weeks after a 4-year-old visitor accidentally smashed it late last month. The jar dated back to the Bronze Age, between 2200 and 1500 B.C. — predating the time of Kings David and Solomon — and it was totally intact, making it...
During a dig at Burghead fort in Scotland, a volunteer spent weeks digging with no finds. That all changed after 30 days of searching when John Ralph discovered a Pictish ring at the site. “The dig was my fifth dig of the season. I had dug for more than 30 days and had found very...
A geography teacher in Coventry, England, found an ancient stone while weeding his garden in 2020, but the digging didn’t stop from there. The finding of the stone led the teacher and researchers down a path of discovery, seeking the true value of the find. Graham Senior found a sandstone measuring 4 inches long in...
Archaeologists discovered ancient gold coins in an unexpected location during a recent excavation in Bulgaria. The five Byzantine coins, which date back to the reign of Justinian the Great, were uncovered by archaeologists digging at a site in the northern Bulgarian village of Debnevo. The excavation was announced by Dr. Stiliyan Ivanov, an associate professor...
A team of dedicated researchers were stunned after they recently came face-to-face with a ship that hadn’t been seen in 168 years. The discovery of the steamship Le Lyonnais was recently announced by Atlantic Wreck Salvage (AWS). AWS, which owns and operates the vessel D/V Tenacious, found the ship off the coast of southeastern Massachusetts....
A tomb of a medieval Catholic saint was recently opened last month for research – and the condition of her body stunned those who found her. In an Aug. 28 press release translated from Spanish to English, the Diocese of Avila announced the recent opening of the tomb of St. Teresa of Jesus. The saint,...
A recent Ph.D. graduate’s excavation of an ancient forest near Strahan in western Tasmania exceeded expectations with the discovery of new plant species. Fossils were discovered during a 2020 excavation led by Dr. Miriam Slodownik, a recent graduate of the University of Adelaide. The goal of the dig was to “understand the ancient ecosystems of...
An ancient artifact could be right in your own backyard. This was the case for a mom who was gardening with her baby in the town of Józefów in Poland. While gardening in May, they came across a strange object. Curious of the find, they brought it to the Mazowiecki Wojewódzki Konserwator Zabytków (Masovian Voivodeship...
Never-before-seen photographs capturing a long-lost statue and the decay of the Titanic shipwreck have been released. The RMS Titanic, Inc. team, which is dedicated to preserving the legacy of the ocean liner, spent 20 days at the wreck site over the summer taking over two million images and videos, FOX Weather reported. Researchers ended up...
A new dinosaur species has potentially been recovered after the reconstruction of its remains. The first-of-its-kind green dinosaur fossil was discovered in southeastern Utah, and was reassembled by a team from the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (NHMLAC). The 150-million-year-old dinosaur was first spotted in 2007, according to a report from National Geographic,...
