Archaeology

New Excavation Of Richard III Resting Place Set To Begin

Archaeologists hope to shed new light on Richard III’s final resting place, with a new dig at the site of the Grey Friars church. Experts will spend a month excavating the choir area of the church, where Richard’s body was discovered, and hope to reveal m ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 7 2013 - 10:26pm

During Civil Unrest In Egypt, Ancient Pharaoh Mycerinus Makes Surprise Appearance At Archaeological Dig

As Egypt fights over new leadership, Israeli archaeologists have found evidence of an ancient ruler in northern Israel.  At a site in Tel Hazor National Park, north of the Sea of Galilee, archaeologists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have unearth ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 9 2013 - 12:35pm

Oldest Inland European Fort In The US Discovered

Appalachian-Americans rejoice, archaeologists have added a new piece to your heritage puzzle. The remains of the earliest European fort in the interior of (what is now) the United States have been discovered- and it gives new insight into both the start o ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 23 2013 - 11:59am

Coffin Within A Coffin Found At Richard III Burial Site

University of Leicester archeologists lifted the lid of a medieval stone coffin near the final resting place of Richard III this week- and found a mysterious coffin-within-a-coffin. ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 29 2013 - 10:00am

Battle Of Bosworth- The Last Stand Of Richard III Located

For as much as the War of the Roses has been over-analyzed and documented, you'd think researchers would know where the Battle of Bosworth, which brought the Plantagenet King of England Richard III to a grisly end at the hands of the Tudors, was fough ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 15 2013 - 10:22am

Massive Assyrian Iron Age Fortifications Unearthed At Ashdod

Researchers have unearthed the remains of massive ancient fortifications built around an Iron-Age Assyrian harbor in the contemporary Israeli coastal city of Ashdod, just south of Tel Aviv. At the heart of the well-preserved fortifications is a mud-brick ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 19 2013 - 3:22pm

Earliest Known Iron Artifacts Were Extraterrestrial In Origin

9 ancient Egyptian iron beads which were carefully hammered into thin sheets before being rolled into tubes over 5,000 years ago were actually hammered from pieces of meteorites and not iron ore.  The objects trace their origins to outer space and predate ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 19 2013 - 9:57pm

Solomon's Mines Found In Israel

New findings from an archaeological excavation prove that copper mines in Israel thought to have been built by the ancient Egyptians in the 13th century BC actually originated three centuries later, during the reign of the legendary King Solomon, accordin ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 4 2013 - 9:56am

Maya Dismembered Their Enemies 1,400 Years Ago

A mass grave in an artificial cave in the historical Maya city of Uxu has uncovered the skeletons of 24 people in an approximately 32 square meter artificial cave that had formerly been used as a water reservoir. "Aside from the large number of inter ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 10 2013 - 10:23am

Gobekli Tepe Was No Laughing Matter

The circular stone enclosures known as the temple at Göbekli Tepe in southeastern Turkey remain the oldest of its kind, dating back to around the 10th millennium B.C.  But Göbekli Tepe may also be the world's oldest science building. Giulio Magli of t ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 12 2013 - 12:47pm