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At the top of Chapada Diamantina, a village of stone houses without cement housed 9, 000 prospectors at the height of the diamond rush and today has 380 residents among ruins that seem to be from the Middle Ages.
6+ hour, 38+ min ago (647+ words) High in the Serra do Sincor, within the Chapada Diamantina National Park, there is a place that seems to have stopped in time. Igatu, the ghost village of Bahia, housed 9, 000 prospectors at the height of the diamond rush in the…...
Archaeologists discover a 2, 000-year-old stele depicting a Roman emperor as an Egyptian pharaoh.
2+ day, 8+ hour ago (455+ words) A team of Egyptian and French archaeologists discovered a 2, 000-year-old sandstone stele depicting a Roman emperor as a pharaoh in Luxor. The monument was located during restoration work on a gate of the Karnak temple complex in ancient Thebes. The…...
Archaeologists found thousands of sling projectiles dating back 3, 500 years concentrated in front of the palace of Troy along with arrowheads, burned buildings, and hastily buried bodies, and now science believes that the war described by Homer in the Iliad may have been real.
4+ day, 11+ hour ago (834+ words) For centuries, historians treated Homer's Iliad as literature. A beautiful story about gods, heroes, and a woman beautiful enough to launch a thousand ships to sea. Helen, Achilles, the wooden horse. Fiction. Myth. Poetry. But beneath a hill in northwestern…...
Scientists reveal an impossible artifact for its time made with iron from space, and the discovery reignites a historical debate about the Bronze Age in China.
4+ day, 17+ hour ago (919+ words) An object discovered at the archaeological site of Sanxingdui, in southwest China, has begun to challenge traditional interpretations of the Bronze Age. The piece has been identified as an artifact made from meteoric iron, a rare and unexpected material for…...
On a rocky stretch of just 40 meters in South Africa, scientists found dozens of footprints that are 132 million years old hidden beneath the tide, revealing the youngest record ever identified in the southern part of the African continent.
5+ day, 18+ hour ago (932+ words) German reactor of 16 meters with twisted magnetic fields reaches a historic milestone in nuclear fusion by generating high-energy helium ions that simulate alpha particles from the Sun; progress in Wendelstein 7-X could unlock plasma control and explain phenomena observed in…...
Long before modern medicine, an artificial leg made of bronze and wood buried in Italy showed that amputees were already receiving complex prosthetics around 300 B. C. , at a technical level that seems unlikely for antiquity.
5+ day, 17+ hour ago (1149+ words) The found prosthesis featured a construction composed of a wooden core, responsible for providing lightness and shape, externally covered by carefully molded bronze plates. German reactor of 16 meters with twisted magnetic fields reaches a historic milestone in nuclear fusion by…...
In Italy, archaeologists analyzed a dental prosthesis from the 16th or 17th century made with five human teeth held together by a gold band, revealing a level of dentistry much more advanced than previously thought.
5+ day, 19+ hour ago (1297+ words) The discovery indicates that complex dental replacement procedures had been in use for over 400 years. Although precise archaeological dating was not possible, the authors point out that some elements suggest manufacturing in the early 17th century, reinforcing the existence, at that…...
Archaeologists are excavating Iron Age treasure in England and have found, among 950 metal pieces, rare remains of four-wheeled carts that could change what was known about transport and wealth in ancient Britain.
6+ day, 11+ hour ago (519+ words) Archaeologists identified in Melsonby, Yorkshire, England, remains of four-wheeled carts dated from 100 BC to 40 AD, among 950 Iron Age metal objects, in a find that could change the understanding of transport and status during the period. The remains were found at…...
Archaeologists are surprised by a skeleton found with 13 nails, including one through the heel, revealing one of the rarest findings on crucifixion ever seen in the region.
6+ day, 12+ hour ago (661+ words) It has been a few years, but it is worth recalling this incredible find. Archaeologists excavating a 6-hectare settlement in Fenstanton, England, found a skeleton with indications of crucifixion, the first evidence of its kind in the United Kingdom and…...
Bavarian archaeologists unearthed a medieval skeleton that had an articulated iron hand in place of its left arm, and the discovery reveals that doctors were already creating sophisticated prosthetics over 500 years ago.
6+ day, 20+ hour ago (895+ words) The discovery was announced by the Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments (BLf D) and caught the attention of the international scientific community. According to Dr. Walter Irlinger, head of the conservation department at BLf D, "even for experienced…...