Tagged: archeology

– Do you look like Cleopatra or Julius Caesar? Do you perhaps resemble an ancient genius or someone you may never even have heard anything about? Who was your Doppelganger? The idea that we all have a Doppelganger is an is an ancient and widespread...

– Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was a great scientist and a man ahead of his time. His vast knowledge and scientific curiosity resulted in a number of incredible inventions. Although some of his inventions were re-inventions based on ancient knowledge, his role and contribution to...

– The discovery in 2013 in Indonesia of a tiny species known as the Hobbit, named Homo floresiensis caused a sensation among scientists. Who were these mysterious beings? Were they another species of human, like us but mysteriously different? One controversial theory even suggested Hobbits...

– If you are a fan of Jules Verne, then you’ll find this news exciting. A metal bow belonging to Jules Verne has been discovered in the vicinity of the French Pyrenees in the Occitaine region. The contents of this potential “time capsule” are currently...

– Archaeologists continue to analyze the old remains of the Danish medieval warship “Gribshunden” (Griffin-Hound), discovered at the bottom of the sea off the Swedish coast. In 2016, a group of divers transported parts of the ship, including the colorful figurehead, back to Copenhagen for...

Last year, archaeologists discovered the original shrine belonging to Viking King Olaf Haraldsson who was declared a saint in 1031. St. Olaf, as he is now known, conquered and consolidated Norway in 1016 but held on to rule for a little more than a decade...

A new study of the DNA reveals that the indigenous groups living today in the region of southern Alaska, are descendants of the first humans who came to northwest North America more than 10,000 years ago. Researchers collected DNA from the 10,300-year-old remains of Shuká...

The vessel, which is believed to be the ceremonial boat of Pharaoh Cheops, known for building the largest of Egypt’s pyramids, will be restored by the largest on-site antiquities laboratory. The project, funded by the Japan International Cooperation Agency and the Higashi Nippon International University,...

– The Dura-Europos church is located in Syria and the place is very interesting to anyone interested in Biblical archaeology. It’s the world’s oldest Christian church dating back to the third-century C.E. For the first three centuries of the church, Christians typically met in homes...

Israeli archaeologists have unearthed a table-like structure, dating back about 4,000 years in the Galilee Hills, Israel. A huge Bronze Age dolmen is inscribed with unique mysterious art and according to Uri Berger, an archaeologist with the Antiquities Authority, “this is the first art ever...