5+ day, 21+ hour ago   (842+ words) A stained Navy book pulled from the trash held a chilling 7:55 a.m. entry from Pearl Harbor’s darkest morning. As Tracylyn Sharrit helped her fiancé unpack his books in Hemet, California, one stained volume caught her eye. The spine identified it as…...

1+ week, 6+ hour ago   (567+ words) A sickle crossed her neck and a padlock bound her toe. Four centuries later, scientists revealed her face. When Zosia died, she was estimated to be about 18-20 years old. Media accounts referred to her final rest as a “grave of…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (334+ words) It took over two thousand years for this ancient well to reveal what was hiding at the bottom. Experts say it's unlike anything found before. What makes the discovery especially notable is preservation. Because the well remained underwater in a…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (695+ words) A tightly packed burial chamber on Luxor’s West Bank held painted coffins, mummies and sealed texts that archaeologists still have not fully deciphered. A pottery vessel found inside a rock-cut chamber on the Luxor West Bank held something archaeologists could…...

16+ hour, 17+ min ago   (484+ words) 52,503 Roman artefacts and a burial site that defies any obvious explanation. In April 2010, metal detectorist Dave Crisp was sweeping a field near Frome, Somerset, when his equipment picked up an unusual signal about a foot below the surface. He uncovered…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (489+ words) Hidden away inside an Austrian crypt for centuries, a mysterious mummy has finally revealed why it survived when others did not. A remarkably preserved 18th-century mummy in an Austrian church crypt has revealed an embalming technique never previously documented by…...

2+ week, 12+ hour ago   (706+ words) A diamond mine on Namibia’s coast uncovered a 500-year-old wreck, gold coins and traces of a vanished trading world. The desert was supposed to be holding diamonds. Instead, work along Namibia’s southern coast exposed evidence of a trading world that…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (543+ words) The scale of the coin hoard uncovered off Sardinia has been described by officials as historically significant, yet the full account of how it came to rest on the seafloor remains incomplete. Understanding why this particular hoard matters requires looking…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (705+ words) Sixty meters beneath the Baltic, an intact ship holds champagne and luxury goods untouched for generations. Although the sonar image of the object looked small enough to allow for a short dive, Polish divers investigating the Baltic Sea thought it…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (498+ words) Deep in a Turkish cave, archaeologists uncovered dozens of turtle-shaped stone carvings arranged in a way that suggests they weren't placed there by accident. What they mean, and why someone buried these mysterious figures thousands of years ago? Deep inside…...