Tagged: archaeologists

Archaeologists in the U.K. are working to uncover the secrets of an ancient coastal hillfort before it falls into the sea. Perched on a slowly collapsing cliff edge, the mysterious fort at Dinas Dinlle in Wales is believed to date back to the Iron Age,...

Archaeologists in Israel are unraveling the complex history of an ancient military fortification dating to the reigns of Kings Solomon and David. The gatehouse complex, which dates to the 10th century B.C., was unearthed in Southern Israel’s Timna Valley in 2014. Recent analysis of organic...

Hidden underground chambers dating back 2,000 years have been discovered near the Western Wall in Jerusalem. Archaeologists have revealed the subterranean system near the Western Wall plaza and its tunnels. Excavations were conducted by the Israel Antiquities Authority in the “Beit Straus” complex beneath the...

Archaeologists in Spain are searching for the bones of Red Hugh O’Donnell, a 16th-century Irish chieftain who fought English rule in Ireland and died in exile. Born into a noble family, Red Hugh O’Donnell is known as ‘Red Hugh’ as a result of his Irish...

On November 5, 1867, was born George Andrew Reisner, an American archaeologist of Ancient Egypt and Palestine. George Andrew Reisner was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. In 1889, Reisner was head football coach at Purdue University, coaching for one season and compiling a record of 2–1....

Tulum is a pre-Columbian Mayan walled city located on 12-meter (39 ft) tall cliffs along the east coast of the Yucatán Peninsula on the Caribbean Sea in Mexico. Tulum – one of the last cities built and inhabited by the Maya – was known in...