Drought reveals famous sunken ship on the Missouri River
The wooden steamboat Montana has resurfaced on the Missouri River, thanks to the severe drought. Pieces of the sunken vessel are now clearly visible because of the near-record low water levels. The...
View ArticleRoman amphora full of wine found in Andalusia
Archaeologists in Vélez-Málaga Town Hall have discovered a Roman Amphora, dating from the first century. The Amphora had been lost for years, but was found again in 1960 before being forgotten once...
View ArticleFairbanks scientists stunned to find intact 40,000-year-old steppe bison
As she scraped cold dirt from the remains of an extinct bison, Pam Groves wrinkled her nose at a rotten-egg smell wafting from gristle that still clung to the animal’s bones. She lifted her head to...
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Roman coin hoard found in city field
A hoard of Roman coins worth hundreds of pounds was unearthed in a farmer’s field in Sheffield (UK) – and this week was declared treasure. The five republican silver denarii were discovered by a metal...
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Briton finds 500-year-old arrest warrant for Machiavelli
Prof Stephen Milner from Manchester University discovered the historic document by accident while researching town criers and the proclamations they read out in archives in Florence. The 1513...
View ArticleRichard the Lionheart examined by scientists
The mummified heart of King Richard I has been analysed by forensic experts. When the English monarch, nicknamed Richard the Lionheart, died in 1199 his heart was embalmed and buried separately from...
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Homeric epics were written in 762 BCE, give or take
When were Homer’s works written? One of literature’s oldest mysteries is a step closer to being solved after a recent study that dates the The Iliad to 762 BCE and adds a quantitative means of testing...
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Grotesque Mummy Head Reveals Advanced Medieval Science
In the second century, an ethnically Greek Roman named Galen became doctor to the gladiators. His glimpses into the human body via these warriors’ wounds, combined with much more systematic...
View ArticleSome absolutely useless historical facts! But fun to know!
Where did “Piss Poor” come from? Interesting History. They used to use urine to tan animal skins, so families used to all pee in a pot And then once a day it was taken and sold to the tannery… if you...
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Remains of Medieval knight found under car park
The remains of a medieval knight have been discovered underneath a car park that is being demolished at a city-centre building site. The skeleton was found in Edinburgh’s Old Town after archaeologists...
View ArticleFirst Slave owner in the US was black
How many Americans know that the first slave owner in America was a black tobacco farmer? How many Americans are aware that thousands of free blacks in the South were, themselves, slave owners? Answer:...
View ArticleLost Ancient Technology In Egypt: Is This Part Of A Machine?
Was this disk Part Of A Machine? Interesting question about an interesting object? Discovered in 1936 in Egypt near Saqqara by Walter Bryan Emery the enigmatic metal object remains a mystery. Could it...
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The Ghost Machines of Truk Lagoon
Situated halfway between the Philippines and Hawaii, Truk Lagoon was the site of a major battle between the U.S. and Japan in 1944. Around 60 ships and 275 planes sank beneath the waves during a U.S....
View ArticleScientists find mystery coffin at Richard III site
A team of archaeologists said Monday it has unearthed an unusual coffin-within-a-coffin in the central England parking lot where it found the skeleton of King Richard III, and that they hope to...
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6000-year-old ‘halls of the dead’ unearthed in UK
The remains of two large 6000-year-old halls, each buried within a prehistoric burial mound, have been discovered by archaeologists from The University of Manchester and Herefordshire Council — in a UK...
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