What is it? Sword Culture Viking Date First half of the 11th century A.D. Material Iron, silver, gold, silver thread, copper alloy thread Found Langeid, Setesdal Valley, southern Norway Dimensions 3.08 feet long At first the grave’s contents seemed poorer than might be expected, given that it was the largest excavated burial in the Langeid […]
The lead object was the first of its kind found in the Eastern Mediterranean region. A nondescript cave in Israel was the location of a major discovery recently: a lead and wood artifact believed to be the earliest example of smelted lead in the Eastern Mediterranean region. The object, which looks like a wand or […]
A skull bone of the Buddha was found inside this gold casket, which was stored in a silver casket within the stupa model, found in a crypt beneath a Buddhist temple. Credit: Photo courtesy of Chinese Cultural Relics Archaeologists have discovered what may be a skull bone from the revered Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama. The bone […]
Many Faces of Power As drought depleted Poland’s Vistula River (map), tons of looted 17th-century marble artifacts—including this stonework pictured against a power plant—surfaced this month. The revelation helps solve a centuries-old mystery and crowns one archaeologist’s three-year quest for Warsaw’s lost royal treasures. The sculpted fountains, columns, and other marbles on the muddy bottom […]
The Plain of Jars in northern Laos is home to a 2000-year-old mystery. Photo: AFP ARCHAEOLOGISTS FROM THE Australian National University (ANU) are shedding light on an ancient civilisation after unearthing an Iron Age burial ground in Laos’s mysterious ‘Plain of Jars.’ Throughout central Laos – a South East Asian country landlocked by Vietnam, Cambodia, […]
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