Two incidents of vandalism have reportedly taken place at Gettysburg National Park within one week. On August 15, park officials reported that multiple boulders had been defaced with graffiti inscribed onto the faces of large stones on Little Round Top, the National Park Services (NPS) reported. The second incident took place on August 19, when...
W.E.B. Du Bois, American sociologist, author, activist and co-founder of the NAACP, died on this day in history on Aug. 27, 1963, in Accra, Ghana at age 95. “He was an activist who was the most important Black protest leader in the United States during the first half of the 20th century,” noted Britannica.com. The...
A doorway that could have been used by famous playwright William Shakespeare was discovered in the United Kingdom’s oldest working theater. The discovery in St. George’s Guildhall in King’s Lynn, Norfolk, which has been undergoing major conservation efforts, was sparked when the Guildhall’s creative director, Tim FitzHigham, noticed a “weird shape in the wall,” according...
Archaeologists have uncovered the first and largest astronomical observatory from 6th century BC — located in Kafr Sheikh, Egypt. The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities shared the remarkable discovery on Facebook on Aug. 23 along with photos of various artifacts found during the excavation. “The Egyptian archaeological mission from the Supreme Council of Antiquities,...
Ancient discoveries could pop up anywhere, sometimes even being found by mistake. Twelve-year-old Rowan Brannon from Bognor Regis, West Sussex, was walking his dog in Pagham with his mother in 2022 when they stumbled upon a gold bracelet. Unaware of the bracelet’s value or history, they took the gold cuff to a local finds liaison...
A near-century-old iconic Coney Island roller coaster in New York City was shut down indefinitely after malfunctioning during a ride on Thursday. Operators shut down the Cyclone, Luna Park’s 97-year-old wooden roller coaster, as it was climbing up to its famed drop because of a damaged chain sprocket in the motor room, according to the...
Since 2019, the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research (NIKU) has conducted excavations in Bispevika, Oslo. Many ancient items have come out of excavations, but one recent find was particularly rare. The area, which has never been investigated by archaeologists before, brought to light a rare iron gauntlet from the Middle Ages, according to a...
A 22-year-old college student in Denmark uncovered an ancient find that turned out to be much larger than originally thought. This past spring, Gustav Bruunsgaard, an archaeology student from Aarhus University, took his metal detector to a field near Elsted, where previous excavations had uncovered objects dating back to the Viking Age. While Bruunsgaard was...
A piece of mail finally made it to the intended location — almost 121 years to the day after someone put a stamp on it and sent it off. The Swansea Building Society, a mortgage loan business in Swansea, Wales, received a very old piece of mail earlier this month that took staff members by...
Officials in Arapahoe County, Colorado, were called to investigate a piece of history that was found by a group of on-site construction workers. While on the scene, Aurora Police requested Arapahoe Sheriff’s Department Bomb Squad to determine a metal device that was found. The Arapahoe Sheriff’s office shared the discovery and a photo on X....
