4,200-year-old burial of Bronze Age chieftain discovered under UK skate park
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Antarctic Explorer’s Century-Old Journal Describes ‘Perverted’ Penguins
Explorer George Murray Levick was both excited and shocked to discover the extreme sexual displays he saw among Antarctic penguins. Antarctic Heritage Trust/AFP/Getty ImagesGeorge Murray Levick became obsessed with studying the Adélie penguins during the expedition. In 1910, the daring…
Bones of one of England’s first saints, a 7th-century princess, found in church wall
Concealing the saint’s remains likely prevented them from being destroyed during the Reformation. Archaeologists have identified the bones of one England’s earliest saints. The remains were found hidden behind a church wall in the southern part of the country. Her…
Student discovers 5,000-year-old sword hidden in Venetian monastery
The sword was mistakenly thought to be medieval. It is now thought to come from eastern Anatolia and to be about 5000 years-old – one of the oldest swords ever found. A keen-eyed archaeology student made the find of a…
20 Amazing women in science and math
She wrote the world’s first computer program — in 1837. She discovered ancient sea monsters buried in her backyard. She cancelled the chemical tearing our ozone layer apart. You might not know their names or faces, but these pioneering women…
The True Story Of The Man In The Iron Mask
Even after his death, the government took great care to hide the identity of the Man in the Iron Mask. His clothes were promptly burned at dawn and his cell was immediately scraped and whitewashed. Wikimedia CommonsAn illustration of the Man…
Rare tile of mythical beast discovered in 14th-century cesspit
Archaeologists have discovered a 14th-century cesspit that underwent an extreme makeover over the centuries, transforming from a receptacle for human excrement into a fashionable cellar with a latrine. Since discovering the cesspool in London at the end of 2019, archaeologists…
Two New Ancient Species Of Cockroach Found Preserved In Amber
These 99 million-year-old discoveries represent “the only known dinosaur age cave survivors.” Lenka Podstrelená, Sendi et al. Gondwana Res 2020 (Copyright Elsevier 2020)The two species likely descended from a common ancestor, before the supercontinent of Gondwana drifted apart. An international…
Maya warrior queen may have built the longest ‘white road’ in the Yucatán
Archaeologists have surveyed the Mayan road with airborne lidar technology to reveal the ancient structures along its length. A ruthless Maya warrior queen may have ordered the building of an elaborate road more than 1,000 years ago to invade a…
Titanic’s iconic telegraph ‘voice’ may be recovered. But some say the salvager is a ‘greedy treasure hunter.’
The remains of the RMS Titanic are rapidly corroding at the bottom of the North Atlantic. But a proposal to cut the ship’s telegraph machine from the wreck has drawn fierce criticism. A wireless telegraph machine, sometimes called the “voice of the Titanic” for its role…
Hello kitty! Leopard face reconstructed from ancient Egyptian sarcophagus
Archaeologists digitally reconstructed the leopard image from fragments of a sarcophagus cover. Excavation of an ancient city of the dead in Aswan, Egypt, recently uncovered pieces of a sarcophagus lid that had been decorated with the colorful face of a…
‘Exquisite’ dinosaur-age cockroaches discovered preserved in amber
One of the ancient cockroaches is pictured preserved in its amber grave. A pair of 99-million-year-old cockroaches are rewriting the early history of the underworld. The ancient roaches, found preserved in amber in Myanmar, are the oldest-known examples of “troglomorphic”…