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The 2,500-Year-Old Mystery of the Tomb of the Blue Demons Has Stumped Archaeologists. Until Now.
3+ day, 3+ hour ago (104+ words) The painted creature inside an Etruscan tomb convinced mourners they were under its spell. A Bone Led to a Revolutionary War Mass Grave Why Scientists Buried Thousands of Undies in Soil Early Humans’ Brains Linked to Another Dimension Archaeologists Found…...
Archaeologists Dug up 25 Turtles Carved During the Ice Age. Their Purpose Is Still a Mystery.
1+ week, 5+ day ago (279+ words) Buried in a Turkish cave for millennia, the figurines may point to a long-lost mountain cult. The 25 recently discovered, rudimentarily-carved stone turtle figurines surrounding a curved architectural feature in a cave under Turkey’s Gedikkaya Hill must have had some sort…...
A Couple Discovered a Dead Man’s Body on a Beach. 80 Years Later, the Mystery Is Almost Over.
3+ week, 3+ day ago (224+ words) In 1948, a body found at Somerton Park near Adelaide sparked one of the strangest cold cases in Australian history. But one piece of evidence transformed this perplexing John Doe—who eventually came to be known simply as the “Somerton Man…...
Scientists Buried 2,000 Pairs of Underwear. Two Months Later, the Disturbing Result Confirmed Their Worst Fears.
1+ week, 3+ day ago (299+ words) Adding a whole new meaning to the phrase “soiled underwear.” Life begins with dirt. A vast majority of the food we eat originates with soil. Soil helps store carbon, acting as one of the largest carbon reservoirs on Earth. Soil…...
Navy Researchers Scanned the Seafloor and Tracked a Ping. Then They Found a Staggering 500-Year-Old Shipwreck.
4+ week, 18+ hour ago (373+ words) At 8,200 feet underwater, it’s the deepest wreck ever found around France’s coastline. Routine sonar investigations of the French seafloor led to the accidental discovery of a 16th-century shipwreck roughly 1.5 miles off the coast of Ramatuelle. The wreck, nestled 8,200 feet underwater,…...
These Rock Paintings Survived for 2,000 Years. The Secret May Be Human Blood.
3+ week, 3+ day ago (218+ words) Ancient artists in China used human blood to create images, but no violence was involved. “Our study indicates that red clay rich in nano-hematite was used as the pigment, and a composite mortar made from lime and blood served as…...
A Massive Complex of Mysterious Mounds Was Hiding in Plain Sight For Over 5,000 Years
2+ week, 5+ day ago (219+ words) The Watson Brake site predates the oldest pyramid in Egypt by almost 2,000 years. Most ancient peoples are assumed to have settled permanently in a region before developing agriculture, and the surplus that followed would lead to a social hierarchy, with…...
A Diver Stumbled Upon the Treasure of a Lifetime—and It May Lead to a Hidden Shipwreck
3+ week, 2+ day ago (394+ words) He uncovered 30,000 coins ancient coins in remarkable condition. They had to have come from somewhere. On May 25, 2023, a diver off Sardinia noticed something metallic in the seagrass near Arzachena. The first object led investigators to a much larger cache: tens…...
A Student’s Hunch Uncovered a 3,700-Year-Old Ritual Site
4+ week, 23+ hour ago (615+ words) George Bird knew there had to be more to the six-foot-tall standing stone. A six-foot-tall standing ceremonial stone in a Derbyshire forest had one archaeology enthusiast searching for more. Well, in 2024, 24-year-old student George Bird found plenty, with the help…...
Archaeologists Recovered Henry VIII’s 400-Year-Old Lost Warship. What They Found Was Staggering.
3+ week, 4+ day ago (534+ words) Recovery of the Mary Rose unearthed more than 8,000 Tudor-era weapons, a shipwreck record. For 34 years, the Mary Rose was the pride of Henry VIII’s fleet. Then, in 1545, one ill-conceived maneuver doomed the 600-ton warship, sinking it in the Solent strait…...