Photo Credit: Hordaland County Council The Norwegian mountain village of Haukeli, located some 150 miles west of Oslo, is most commonly known for its fishing, hunting, skiing and other outdoorsy attractions. Recently, however, Haukeli made headlines as the location of the latest sensational archaeological find: a Viking sword blade dating back more than 1,200 years. […]
An elaborate glass bead with amber embedding found in a 3400-year old Danish grave turns out to have come from ancient Egypt. (Credit: Roberto Fortuna and Kira Ursem) Cobalt glass beads found in Scandinavian Bronze Age tombs reveal trade connections between Egyptians and Mesopotamia 3,400 years ago — and similar religious rituals. Stunning glass beads […]
From the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian (Travis Rathbone) As a nomadic cultural historian, my subjects have led me in wildly different directions. I spent every Friday for five years in a dim, dusty reading room in West Orange, New Jersey, formerly a laboratory on the second floor of Thomas Edison’s headquarters, deciphering […]
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 […]
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