5+ day, 20+ hour ago   (842+ words) Tracylyn Sharrit helped her fiancé unpack his books in Hemet, California, one stained volume caught her...the destroyers USS Cassin, USS Downes and USS Shaw in the Navy Yard for repairs. The record kept going...was a civilian employee at…...

3+ week, 13+ hour ago   (593+ words) one of the most important underwater discoveries in recent years, and the full details are still being...And my heart stopped. It wasn’t a rock,” he wrote in a translated post on Instagram. He surfaced and told...Regional Superintendency of…...

15+ hour, 5+ min ago   (484+ words) burial site that defies any obvious explanation. In April 2010, metal detectorist Dave Crisp was sweeping...radiate coin. Then he stopped digging and called in archaeologists from Somerset County Council. Beneath...archaeologists concluded that the pot had been placed in the…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (588+ words) A cellar renovation in Germany just uncovered a complete 13th-century ship's hull after...Medieval discovery. Archaeologists examining a cellar in Konstanz, Germany, set out to study a centuries-old...medieval ship’s hull. The 270-square-foot ceiling, built in 1244 C.E., had quietly hidden…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (403+ words) where archaeologists carried out preliminary work in July 2023. Exploring this part of Peru is tricky, because the mountains are...remain an open question. Dense vegetation makes this landscape particularly difficult to explore. Ancient...see through that visual barrier and reveal…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (705+ words) unusually well-preserved snapshot of high-end trade in the 19th-century Baltic. One of the most noticeable...provided the divers with a better lead on when it sank. This provides more specificity then just stating that...

2+ week, 10+ hour ago   (706+ words) that had disappeared nearly five centuries earlier. In April 2008, miners working near Oranjemund uncovered...Portuguese trading vessel believed to have been lost in 1533 while sailing toward India. The wreck lay in the Sperrgebiet, the tightly controlled diamond-mining...Archaeologist Dieter Noli,…...

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....preservation. Because the well remained underwater in a low-oxygen environment for millennia, the bronze...original shine, a rarity for metal artifacts of…...

1+ week, 17+ hour ago   (471+ words) This megastructure survived thousands of years without anyone knowing it was there. When it...of giants,” a nod to a race of giants referenced in biblical text. Neither name explains who actually...theory: a nomadic civilization that eventually settled in…...

2+ day, 17+ hour ago   (489+ words) did not. A remarkably preserved 18th-century mummy in an Austrian church crypt has revealed an embalming...absorb fluids and slow decomposition. The mummy, kept in the crypt of a church in St. Thomas am Blasenstein, Austria, is thought to...Sidler…...