The 1,200-year-old glass game piece looks good enough to eat. What looks like a tasty, blue gumdrop decorated with white frosting is actually a 1,200-year-old glass “king” piece that may have belonged to an elite gamer, according to Durham University,…
One artifact was said to show the earliest depiction of the Christian crucifixion, but experts said its iconography suggests it was created much later than its supposed date in the third century A.D. A criminal trial has begun of an…
Pvt. Arthur Edward Diggens’ diary was written in pencil and spans from Feb. 13, 1916 to Oct. 11, 1916. It ends rather abruptly — but not because the soldier was killed in battle. Hansons AuctioneersThe diary was found in a…
Simon Sebag Montefiore is a best-selling historian, with books published in 48 languages. He is the author of the international best-seller “Jerusalem: The Biography,” (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2014). Q: How challenging is it to find sources about Jerusalem that can…
An image shows part of the Virgin on the Rocks. The hidden baby Jesus is in the right side of this frame. The Leonardo da Vinci painting the “Virgin of the Rocks” was hiding another image beneath its surface: a…
Ancient Egyptian murder mystery solved, mysterious population of human ancestors uncovered, 3,000-year-old mummy’s voice resurrected.Murder Mystery Behind Peculiar Egyptian Mummy Solved After 2,600 Years Ulster MuseumTakabuti has fascinated researchers since her 1834 discovery due to her blackened face and stunningly-preserved…
Students are taken to a special army facility as a precaution against the possible coronavirus infection on their return from China, at Indira Gandhi International Airport, on Feb. 1, 2020 in New Delhi, India. The passengers were evacuated from Wuhan…
A satellite view of Aylesbury-Vale district in Buckinghamshire, England shows the site where the skeletons were found, at a farm near a graveyard (top center). Excavation for the construction of a retirement community in the rural U.K. recently unearthed 42…
Yamashita’s buried hoard of gold and other valuables, if it exists, is reported to be worth hundreds of millions of dollars today. Excavations by treasure hunters searching for a hoard of gold in the Philippines, said to have been hidden by…
This skull and mandible, rumored to belong to Pliny the Elder, prompted new research to assess that claim. A skull discovered almost a century ago on a shore near Pompeii might, just might, be that of Roman naturalist and military…
Recently discovered dinosaur and small animal footprints date back 183 million years to periods of quite in between fiery, lava eruptions. This story begins with a dusty photo. In 2018, Emese Bordy, an associate professor of sedimentology at the University…
Inscriptions on religious artifacts could reveal the identities of Jewish people who donated the objects to the synagogue. A historic synagogue near Kraków, Poland, was mostly destroyed by Nazis during World War II, but a secret hoard of precious ritual…