Marine archaeologists have discovered 10 shipwrecks, including one estimated to be more than 5,000 years old, off the Greek coast in the Mediterranean. The team made the discoveries underwater during a multi-year survey off the coast of Kasos, a Greek island in
A Norwegian man recently came forward to disclose that he had found several medieval coins as a child and hid them for six decades – until now. Jan Gunnar Fugelsnes told Møre og Romsdal County Municipality officials that he and his brother
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Members of the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the Archaeology Network got more than what they bargained for when digging in Dutou. Hidden by dirt for thousands of years, a series of wells soon made themselves present. Dutou
A metal detectorist has unearthed a 1,500-year-old gold ring in Denmark and it may have once belonged to an ancient king. The rare find could have belonged to an unknown royal family which has connections to France. Lars Nielsen came across the
Egyptian officials canceled their plans to renovate the pyramid of Menkaure last week, citing preservation-related concerns over the project. Officials planned to install cladding made of ancient granite on the pyramid of Menkaure, which is smallest of the three main Giza pyramids.
A small sparkling item seen by a hiker in Israel turned out to be an ancient scarab dating back nearly 2,800 years. Erez Avrahamov, a 45-year resident of Padoel, was hiking Tabor Stream Reserve in the Lower Galilee in Israel when he
Mysterious patches of black, fertile soil are scattered across the vast Amazon Rainforest. They stick out like a sore thumb given that the traditional soil that dominates the region is red. Archaeologists and scientists have long thought that the soil is manmade,
The ancient city, Great Zimbabwe, in Zimbabwe, Africa, was once part of a large and wealthy global trading network and boasted a population between 10,000 to 20,000. It was largely abandoned by the 15th century as the Shona people migrated, but the