A study by the University of Kentucky has solved the origins of the coal found on Blackbeard’s Queen Anne’s Revenge. Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard, was an English pirate…
Category: Archaeology
Excavation leads to discovery of gold coins
Image Credit : Lower Silesian Voivodship Conservator of Monuments Archaeologists excavating in the Polish city of Wrocław have discovered gold coins dating from the 18th century. The discovery was made…
Roman coins found on island in Baltic Sea
Archaeologists from Södertörn University have discovered two Roman coins during a research project on Gotska Sandön, an uninhabited island in Gotland County, Sweden. During the Roman Period, Svealand (“land of…
Archaeologists reveal traces of Henry VIII’s Otford Palace
A team of community archaeologists have conducted a survey in Kent, England, revealing traces of Henry VIII’s Otford Palace, also known as the Archbishop’s Palace. The site of Otford palace…
Evidence of prehistoric glue used 20,000-years-ago during the Palaeolithic period |
Researchers from UNED and the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM) have found evidence of adhesives being used to fasten lithic hunting heads to arrow shafts approximately 20,000-years-ago. In a paper,…
High status tomb discovered in Saqqara necropolis
A joint archaeological mission, led by researchers from the Leiden Museum in the Netherlands and the Egyptian Museum in Turin, have discovered a high-status tomb in the Saqqara necropolis, Egypt.…
Archaeologists identify a submerged temple of the Nabataeans in Pozzuoli
Underwater archaeologists have identified a submerged temple of the Nabataeans, with the discovery of two marble altars from the Roman period. The temple remains are located off the coast of…
A spider monkey’s remains tell a story of ancient diplomacy in the Americas
A sacrificed spider monkey is shedding new light on an ancient Mesoamerican relationship. The remains of a 1,700-year-old monkey found in the ancient city of Teotihuacan outside modern-day Mexico City…
Carvings on Australia’s boab trees reveal a generation’s lost history
Brenda Garstone is on the hunt for her heritage. Parts of her cultural inheritance are scattered across the Tanami desert in northwestern Australia, where dozens of ancient boab trees are…
Some Maya rulers may have taken generations to attract subjects
Commoners may have played an unappreciated part in the rise of an ancient Maya royal dynasty. Self-described “divine lords” at a Maya site called Tamarindito in what’s now Guatemala left…
