Flowers, signs and balloons are left near a makeshift memorial to George Floyd near the spot where he died while in custody of the Minneapolis police, on May 29, 2020, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The protests that have engulfed American cities…
There might be billions of dollars worth of treasure stolen by the Nazis under a 16th century palace in southwestern Poland. A diary that was in the possession of a secret society for decades after the end of World War…
An aerial view of the Tel Arad fortress that stands in what was once the Kingdom of Judah. More than 2,700 years ago, worshipers at a “holy of holies” shrine in Israel may have gotten high on weed. Researchers discovered…
A proposal to cut the Titanic’s telegraph machine free of the shipwreck was just approved in federal court. A federal judge has given a salvage company permission to cut open the hull of the RMS Titanic in order to retrieve…
Mammoths congregated here during the last ice age, when it was on the shores of Lake Xaltocan. Researchers have found a “graveyard” of about 60 mammoths ahead of the construction of an airport just outside Mexico City, according to the…
Japanese castle from the 1500s unearthed, 2,000-year-old Roman roads revealed by sinkhole, ancient Egyptian funeral home discovered.16th-Century Warlord’s Castle Unearthed In Japan Mainichi/Ai KawahiraWorkers excavate the stone wall of the Kyoto Shinjo castle. Few ever saw the Kyoto castle of…
The bronze coin has the words “Year Two of the Freedom of Israel” with a cluster of grapes in the middle. Archaeologists in Israel have discovered a rare coin minted about 1,900 years ago, when the Jewish people revolted against…
The Hebrew word “Shabbat” is visible in the upper right hand corner. A lamed (the letter “L” in Hebrew) is written on the left side of the fragment. Four Dead Sea Scroll fragments, previously thought to be blank, are anything…
Co-director of the excavation Barak Monnickendam-Givon standing in the subterranean chambers. Archaeologists recently uncovered three ancient subterranean chambers carved in the bedrock beneath the Western Wall plaza in Jerusalem. The 2,000-year-old chambers, consisting of an open courtyard and two rooms,…
Queen Elizabeth I’s favourite explorer was driven mad searching for the mythic ‘Golden Empire,’ otherwise known as El Dorado. Not many people have the distinction of putting a nonexistent place on the map, but Sir Walter Raleigh was one of…
Archaeological investigations following the opening of a sinkhole in Piazza della Rotonda in front of the Pantheon in Rome have unearthed the ancient pavement of the imperial era. A sinkhole unexpectedly opened up in front of the Pantheon in Rome…