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Ancient marble head of Hadrian found
The Sudarium of Oviedo - The head cloth of Jesus?
Ancient escape tunnel in Jerusalem found
Did the volcanic eruption of Santorini equate with the biblical Exodus
I was reading the National Geographic article below on the discovery of a layer of ash and rock from Santorini that seemingly destroyed Egyptian coastal cities, and it occurred to me that this might provide evidence of the biblical plagues and devastation that Moses enacted upon the Egyptians
The strange tunnels of Malta and tales about them
Apparently Malta has a massive complex of mostly unexplored tunnels, some with spooky tales to tell
The Guinness Book of records in the ancient world
As our civilization slides into decadence we see ahead of us the sort of things that entertained the Romans I give it about 20 years till our society starts compiling some of these 'greats'
The crash of the airship Hindenburg
One of the most gripping commentaries of all time, the crash of the Hindenburg was so damaging that it decimated public trust in the possibility of a "Zeppelin Era" - a world where travel was dominated by flying air balloons
Priestess with a golden eye found
The 5000 year old skeleton of a 6 foot priestess with a false golden eye found in Iran Now she would have had an imposing presence The body of a strikingly tall 5,000-year-old woman with an artificial golden eye has been discovered in Iran
Eyewitness testimony of the Hiroshima bomb
These "Voice of Hibakusha" are eyewitness accounts of the bombing of Hiroshima Very sobering and terrible accounts of the actual event of Hiroshima nuclear bombing
Ancient human footprints found in Welsh peat bed.
Not only did they find 8000 year old footprints but the British channel was originally a huge valley covered in forest A BEACHCOMBER claims he has found ancient human footprints dating back 8,000 years, embedded in an ancient Welsh peat bed
Archaeologists find Roman emperors treasure
Archaeologists in Rome have discovered the lost treasure of the last pre-Christian Roman emperor, Maxentius Imperial standards, lances and glass spheres were found buried
New ancient gladiator marble relief's found
Italian police have recovered ancient Roman marble relief's depicting stunningly
lifelike gladiators locked in mortal combat after unearthing the hidden cache of
grave robbers.
The remarkable mummy was found in a hidden burial vault in the Amazon It is at least 600 years old and has survived thanks to the embalming skills of her tribe, the Chachapoyas or cloud warriors
Ancient warrior found in Russian permafrost
The ancient frozen body was found in the Italian Alps
Clapham North Deep Level Shelter
A rare look at the deep level bomb shelters built during WW2 All eight Deep Level shelters built during 1941-1942 under existing London Underground stations
Pilot shot down and escapes in Vietnam
Really good article about a pilot who was shot down in Vietnam and taken prisoner, and then escapes
Pyramids partially build with concrete
Seems that the upper blocks of the pyramids were made on site using a form of limestone concrete. Helps to explain how such massive blocks were quarried and moved .The Ancient Egyptians built their great Pyramids by pouring concrete into blocks high on the site.
Video of the German Army in WW2
Great historic video footage, including Hitler
Stalin wanted to breed half man half ape soldiers
Life gets more like the movies every day In the mid 1920s, Josef Stalin noticed that communist Russia was missing something Respect for individual human lives No! An army of half-man-half-ape super-warriors You betcha This may have been the first attempt to breed Orcs
Duckbilled dinosaur fossil with skin found
The more they dig, the more they find But finding soft tissue in a 67 million year old bone seems to stagger belief can they really be that old and still have soft tissue In the past, what we've learned about dinosaurs has been mostly based on bones That might soon change with the recent d
Archaeologists find more than 1000 skeletons dressed in togas
Archaeologists exploring one of Rome's oldest catacombs have discovered more than 1,000 skeletons dressed in elegant togas
Dwarf Dinosaur Fossils Found in Germany
Fossils from northern Germany have revealed a dinosaur that evolved into a dwarf, ending up only about one-third the size of its closest known relatives
Giant Crater Found: Tied to Worst Mass Extinction Ever
A crater as big as Ohio has been found in Antarctica . Scientists think it was carved by a space rock that caused the greatest mass extinction on Earth, 250 million years ago
Prehistoric ecosystem found in Israeli cave
Israeli scientists said on Wednesday they had discovered a prehistoric ecosystem dating back millions of years The discovery was made in a cave near the central Israeli city of Ramle during rock drilling at a quarry
Scientists Unveil World's Oldest Ice Block
A million-year-old ice sample drilled from 3 kilometres under the Antarctic and unveiled in Tokyo on Tuesday could yield vital clues on climate change,
Details Revealed About Huge Dinosaurs
Scientists are learning more about what appears to be one of the biggest meat-eating dinosaurs known, a two-legged beast whose bones were found several years ago in the fossil-rich Patagonia region of Argentina
Huge biblical underground complex found
Recent excavation of a cave site near Jerusalem has revealed once-full exterior water pools and a corridor
Fascinating true tale about finding a crashed WW2 bomber in North Africa Great article. In early November, 1958, a British oil exploration team was flying over North Africa's harsh Libyan Desert when they stumbled across something unexpected
Bodies of Knights Templar found.
Archaeologists have found remains of some Knights Templar, where they were killed fighting against the forces of Saladin. This is an exciting find, and I am surprised we do not hear about this in other news outlets
Ancient Pyramid Discovered in Mexico
Archaeologists said Wednesday they have discovered a massive 6th-century Indian pyramid beneath the site of a centuries-old re-enactment of the crucifixion of Christ
Whatever happened to the monowheel?
This fascinating site shows pictures of monowheels through the centuries We don't seem to have the passion for them that they had in the past it seems
Ancient Sarcophagus Unearthed in Cyprus
A 2,500-year-old sarcophagus with vivid colour illustrations from Homer's epics has been discovered in western Cyprus, archaeologists said Monday .Construction workers found the limestone sarcophagus last week in a tomb near the village of Kouklia, in the coastal Paphos
Hey where did these manmade caves come from
The puzzling Huashan caves. Is it simply a coincidence or do certain laws of nature lie behind the phenomenon.
Columbus mystery nearly solved 500 years after death
Nearly 500 years after the death of Christopher Columbus, a team of genetic researchers are using DNA to solve two nagging mysteries: Where was the explorer really born? And where the devil are his bones?
Egypt announces discovery of Ramses II statues
Statues weighing up to five tonnes and thought to be of one of ancient Egypt's greatest pharaohs, Ramses II, have been found northeast of Cairo.
WW2 Russian tanks found that work perfectly
Now this is neat, they found 2 Russian tanks from 1943 in a Latvian bog, dug them out and within a couple of days drove them away with everything working
Russian Colonel prevented WW3 in 1983
Fascinating article, here we were quietly going about our business, and at any time a computing fault could have blown the whole world to oblivion Gives hope for humanity when the people with their hands on the missiles are careful like this
Stone age footprints in Australia
What's interesting is the size and fitness of the hunters We are often old that prehistoric people were smaller than us, and that we are attaining optimum size because of diet and medicine
98 year old colour photos of Russia
View of the Nilova Monastery The Monastery of St Nil' on Stolobnyi Island in Lake Seliger in Tver' Province, northwest of Moscow, illustrates the fate of church institutions during the course of Russian history
Britain's first cave art is more than 12,800 years old, scientific testing has shown Engravings of a deer and other creatures at Creswell Crags, in Derbyshire, have proved to be genuine Ice Age creations, and not modern fakes, as some had feared
A team of archaeologists from Sheffield University have revealed significant new insights into the role of Stonehenge after discovering a prehistoric ceremonial road
Tragic end in ancient cave drama
Deep under a quiet valley in southern Greece, archaeologists are struggling to unravel a 1,400-year-old tragedy that wiped out a rural Byzantine community
Librarian finds hand written Beethoven manuscript
Now you don't see one of these every day, especially when it goes up for auction for a million pounds I wonder what Beethoven was doing in a religious school in Philadelphia
The real Robinson Crusoe found.
A glint of metal in the soil marked the end of a 13-year quest by a Japanese explorer to locate the base camp of Alexander Selkirk, the marooned 18th-century mariner, whose ordeal inspired the book Robinson Crusoe
The tomb of Herod the Great has been found in Israel
Claw marks from ancient giant bear found in cave
The bear that left a 3-foot-long claw mark in an Ice Age clay bank was the largest bear species ever to walk the earth, about 6 feet tall at the shoulder and capable of moving its 1,800 pounds up to 45 miles per hour in a snarling dash for prey
The absence of Black Americans in WW2 movies
With the release of a war movie about Iwo Jima, by Clint Eastwood come the revelation that the roles of Black American soldiers were removed from the historical record Seems heroes could only be white in the 1940's
Ancient pagan graveyard found under the Vatican
Sounds like a DaVinchi Code book. Fascinating. Just inside the Vatican's fortified walls, directly below the street connecting its private pharmacy and its members-only supermarket, lies a 2,000-year-old graveyard littered with bizarre, often disturbing displays of pagan worship
Awesome I always thought WW1 was fought in black and white : I wonder how much history was lost during that war, old buildings destroyed, art destroyed, communities reduced to nothing etc It must have changed totally that part of Europe
Ancient Roman mosaic found under football field
When teachers at St Laurence's School in Bradford-on-Avon, southern England, noticed how the school's football field became scored with yellow lines of dried grass during the summer, little did they know that an extraordinary archaeological site lay just a foot below
Russian T34 tank pulled from lake, after 56 years. Still runs.
14 September 2000, a Komatsu D375A-2 pulled an abandoned tank from its archival tomb under the bottom of a lake near Johvi, Estonia The Soviet-built T34/76A tank had been resting at the bottom of the lake for 56 years
Photo's from Russia of World War 2 The "Great War" Or in the west, it could be called the "Forgotten war" Suffering and horror almost unknown by the Allies
Celtic mummies in China a long way from home
Fascinating article includes Nordic mummies as well . Solid as a warrior of the Caledonii tribe, the man's hair is reddish brown flecked with grey, framing high cheekbones, a long nose, full lips and a ginger beard
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The strange stone spheres of Costa Rica
Was God playing marbles? In the 1930s, workers from the United Fruit Company, were clearing land in the Diquis Valley and began unearthing large numbers of almost perfectly round stone spheres The largest of these apparently man-made balls was over two meters in diameter and weighed over 16 tons
Is an Egyptian pharaohs daughter the mother of all Scots
An ancient story about the origin of the Scots is given credence by some new research . Actually there are alternative histories written by the Celts and other people of the time that show a strong Greek and Mediterranean influence on the original inhabitants of the British Isles
Pyramid found in Ukraine older than Egypt
Archaeologists in Ukraine have unearthed the remains of an ancient pyramidal structure that pre-dates those in Egypt by at least 300 years
2000 year old underground iron age chamber discovered
An underground chamber undisturbed since the Iron Age was revealed on North Uist when a 10ft hole opened beneath the wheel of a tractor Archaeologists assessed the find at Port nan Long at the north of the island, which has been sealed off from the public
Hot summer reveals Scotland's past
A heat wave has revealed fleeting traces of early settlements to historians taking a bird's eye view of Scotland The conditions this summer have proved ideal for aerial archaeologists who document the buried sites, which appear in ripening crops
Has Noah's Ark been found in Northern Iran?
An interesting article here on Noah's ark not being on the traditional Mt Ararat, but in the north of Iran, on a mountain range there The reasoning is pretty sound and backs up the biblical story well
Ancient Chariots Found in Bulgaria
Bulgarian police have discovered three ancient chariots and two ornaments tossed in an abandoned vine-field
Peaceful primitive people were a myth
Our society tends to portray pre western primitive people as mostly peace loving It serves as a kind of comparison that we now are more warlike, and that in the past people were more "attuned to nature" but this interesting book shows that the opposite is true
This saying came from an amazing battle where 32 soldiers and workers held off over 1000 Indians The victory was also aided by the new breach loading rifles they used
Plane hits Empire State building - really!
The Plane That Crashed Into the Empire State Building. On the foggy morning of Saturday, July 28, 1945, Lt Colonel William Smith was piloting a US Army B-25 bomber through New York City
The history of the Kings of Britain - pre Romans
Way back in the 11C Geoffrey of Monmouth compiled together the existing Welsh legends and manuscripts about the History of the land of Britian before the Romans, here is a translation of his fascinating book
Blackbeards ship found me hearties
The pirate Blackbeard's flagship may finally be yielding its identity after nearly 300 years on the ocean floor
The Templars discovered America!! DaVinchi code eat your heart out.
Researchers have found new evidence of a secret code concealed on the Kensington Runestone, one of the most controversial pieces of Minnesota history
Archaeologists Unearth Britain's Own Miniature Coliseum
Archaeologists have discovered evidence of Britain's own miniature Coliseum, it was revealed today The two-tier stone built structure, in Chester.
WW2 Doolittle Raiders Share Stories
There has been a recent movie that ended with this scene of the Doolittle raiders taking off to bomb Tokyo, on what they all knew was a suicide mission Well some survived, hero's indeed
Stalin's secret files on Hitler
The secret personal files of the Soviet dictator Josef Stalin on the private life of his greatest enemy, the Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, have been unearthed in a Moscow archive
Archaeologist discovers ancient ships in EgyptKathryn Bard had the best Christmas ever this past December when she discovered the well-preserved timbers and riggings of pharaonic seafaring ships inside a cave.
Iranian Three-Story Underground City Served As Haven .
Guy finds ancient Roman villa on Google maps
While searching around his hometown in Google Earth, Luca Mori stumbled on what looked like the meanders of an ancient river On the satellite image, it looks like “prominent, oval, shaded form more than 500 metres long“ However, his eye caught what he described as “rectangular shadows“
Hiroshima, why they had to drop the bomb
60 years on from Hiroshima it seems very PC to criticize the dropping of the bomb, but released transcripts of the messages between the Japanese leaders shows that they would have "unleashed hell" had America tried to invade Japan
Graffiti from Pompeii some things never change
Some things never change, yet the style is more informative and poetic than just the random abuse now
Have they found King David's palace?
In what might be a profound discovery, an Israeli archaeologist has found the site of a great complex of buildings which may be the house of King David from the bible Not surprisingly she just followed the descriptions of its site from the bible, and there it was