A fairy circle in the Western Australian outback. Researchers report the discovery of fairy circles in the western Australian outback that are nearly identical to those found in southwestern Africa. Fairy circles are circular patches of bare soil in grasslands that form a uniform hexagonal pattern. The enigmatic circles of sand — burnt orange, almost […]
One day in 2009, rumors of an extremely rare archaeological artifact began circulating the antiquities black market: a papyrus bearing 15 lines of Hebrew writing. If it actually existed, the artifact must have been looted from an archaeological site somewhere in the Judean Desert. Always keeping its ear close to the ground, so to speak, the […]
Two mass graves holding an estimated 1,700 skeletons were found underground at the southern tip of Durham University’s Palace Green Library. – Credit: North News Three years ago, archaeologists at Durham University began excavating a site on campus for a proposed addition to the school’s library, but work was unexpectedly halted when the researchers uncovered remnants of two […]
Minoan art, Crete, Phaistos Disc, possibly dating to the middle or late Minoan Bronze Age (2nd millennium B.C.), Side A: Fired clay, It has 45 hieroglyphic characters engraved on both sides, along with mobile elements in spiral arrangement from the outside toward the center, Archaeological Museum of Heraklion. (Photo by Prisma/UIG/Getty Images) The very mysterious Phaistos […]
An elderly man was stunned when he discovered that a box of trinkets he inherited from his grandfather contained an ancient Greek crown made of pure gold that an auctioneer says is worth at least $230,000. It has been reported that the pensioner had seen the crown nearly a decade ago but did not realize […]
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