The trireme “Olympias,” a modern replica. (Wikimedia Commons) Archaeologists have discovered massive naval bases that once enabled Athens to fight off the Persian Empire—and develop the world’s first democracy. Among the recent finds at the Port of Piraeus, Greece’s biggest seaport, are ship-sheds that held hundreds of warships known as triremes, the Smithsonian reports...
There’s a strange crack in the landscape that is splintering across the frosty depths of Siberia called the Batagaika Crater. The area has long been surrounded in mystery, but scientists are now delving into the history of this geological glitch to discover why it appears to be growing at such an alarming rate. The 90-meter-deep […]
You never know what you’ll find at the bottom of the sea. A couple of divers in the ancient Israeli port of Caesarea brought up some items from the seabed last month, leading to the discovery of a treasure trove of bronze statues, coins and other artifacts that went down with a cargo ship 1,600 […]
New bioarchaeological evidence shows that Nubians and Egyptians integrated into a community, and even married, in ancient Sudan, according to new research from a Purdue University anthropologist. “There are not many archaeological sites that date to this time period, so we have not known what people were doing or what happened to these communities when […]
For many years, locals in Eastern Transbaikalia, a mountainous region to the east of Lake Baikal in Russia told stories about a certain petroglyphs that were hidden in the mountains. Archaeologists were aware of these tales, but could never confirm the rock art’s existence. It seemed the tales were nothing more than a myth. Now, […]
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