Serbian Coal Mine Uncovers Ancient Roman Boat From Empire’s Frontier Coal miners in Serbia have discovered the remains of a large wooden boat likely used by the Romans to supply a nearby city and military headquarters on the empire’s frontier.…
In 1942, physicist Enrico Fermi and a team of workers built what they thought was the first nuclear reactor in a Chicago racket ball court. Unfortunately, nature had beaten them to the punch — by eons. Truth be told, self-sustaining…
2,500-Year-Old Marble Disc: Ancient Ship Protector and Evil Eye Ward Off Discovered A rare 2,500-year-old marble disc, designed to protect ancient ships and ward off the evil eye, was discovered by a lifeguard diving at sea and handed over to…
Unraveling the Mystery of the Hammer Found in an Ancient Rock Formation in Texas While walking along Red Creek, London, Texas in June 1936, Emma Zadie Hahn and her husband Max Edmond Hahn made an unusual discovery: a piece of…
Ancient Saber Discovered in Kyrgyzstan: A Rare Medieval Artifact An ancient saber (heavy military sword with a long cutting edge and, often, a curved blade) was found by three brothers in Amanbaev, a village in the Talas Region of Kyrgyzstan. The discovery…
Resurrecting the Ice Age Giants: Woolly Mammoth Hybrids Set to Grace the Arctic Landscape in Just Five Years! Over four billion species are estimated to have walked this planet over the last 3.5 billion years. Ninety-nine percent of them are…
9,000-year-old necklace found in Jordanian child’s grave Archaeologists have found the body of a child from around 9,000 years ago buried with thousands of beads in what is now Jordan. Based on the shape of the child’s jaw, she was…
Mystery of 900-Year-Old Crusader’s Sword Found at Bottom of Sea Finally Solved New X-ray imaging of a Crusader sword discovered underwater off the coast of Israel shows that it was damaged during battle. A sword studded in seashells and caked…
Ice Age Cave Entrance Unearthed in Germany After 16,000 Years of Seclusion The entrance to an Ice Age cave that nobody has entered for 16,000 years has been discovered in southern Germany. During excavations in the town of Engen, in…
DNA study of remains at Delaware site find kinship among European settlers, African slaves Early colonial settlers likely survived the harsh frontier conditions of 17th-century Delaware because they banded as family units to work alongside enslaved African descendants and European…