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Why Were These 1,000-Year-Old Bodies Buried at a 5,000-Year-Old Monument?
5+ hour, 37+ min ago (368+ words) A DNA analysis of human remains found that two medieval men were buried in a peculiar position at a ritualistic site from the Neolithic era. A tricky DNA analysis of degraded human remains at a famed Neolithic site in Spain…...
Archaeologists Found a Secret Stash of Gold Coins That Rewrite the History of War
4+ mon, 6+ day ago (297+ words) The buried treasure reveals the financial strategies behind ancient battles. The fact that this literal pot of gold was even found shows that an unlikely scenario befell the owner. That grave misfortune could have come in the form of the…...
Archaeologists Were Hunting for a 155-Year-Old Shipwreck—And Found a Totally Different One
5+ mon, 3+ week ago (482+ words) Wisconsin's Fox River has been home to a bounty of shipwrecks'and, therefore, shipwreck searches'over the years. The latest search, which was for the 1870 shipwreck of the steamer Berlin City, resulted in an unexpected discovery: a completely different shipwreck. "That's the…...
A Legendary Ship Vanished With $138 Million in Treasure. Two Explorers Say They Found It.
5+ mon, 4+ week ago (492+ words) The Portuguese ship was overtaken by pirates and wrecked in 1721 off the coast of Madagascar. This story is a collaboration with Biography.com. When famed pirates overtook a Portuguese ship in 1721 once laden with treasure (now valued over $138 million), the…...
A Worker Found a 200-Year-Old Shipwreck Beneath the Real ‘Game of Thrones’ Capital
6+ mon, 1+ week ago (300+ words) Dubrovnik may not have dragons or dire wolves, but it's got plenty of remarkable history of its own, evidently still waiting to be discovered. The details of Bukelic's boat find are being kept hidden. "We still cannot speak of the…...
The ‘Holy Grail of Shipwrecks’ Is Still Underwater. So Is Its $17 Billion Fortune.
7+ mon, 1+ day ago (505+ words) That's a lot of lost loot. Exploration of the San Jose shipwreck and the precious metal coins it scattered about 1,970 feet below the ocean's surface off the coast of Colombia confirmed it really was the richest shipwreck in the world....
Scientists Found a 43,000-Year-Old Fingerprint That May Be the Oldest Ever Left by a Human
7+ mon, 2+ week ago (401+ words) The fingerprint's Neanderthal owner was just painting a self-portrait. Here's what you'll learn when you read this story. A Neanderthal may have given us the oldest-known human fingerprint by attempting to paint a face on a small granite pebble in…...
Diver Uncovers Massive Haul of Ancient Roman Coins — It May Lead to a Hidden Shipwreck
11+ mon, 2+ week ago (450+ words) He uncovered 30,000 coins ancient coins in remarkable condition. They had to have come from somewhere. A diver stumbled across the find of a lifetime off the coast of Sardinia when a stray shiny item loosened itself from the sea grass…...