5 Sunken Roman Ships Found near Italian Island Ventotene

Archaeologists found 5 ancient Roman shipwrecks off a small Italian island Ventotene. The sunken ships date from the 1st century BC to 5th century AD. The ships from the Roman-era are very well presevered as they lie untouched between 330 to 490 feet underwater. The discovery...

Oldest Musical Instrument Discovered by Archaeologists

An article I wrote about the recent find in Germany. "Archaeologist  Nicholas Conard of the University of Tübingen in Germany stated the earliest finds of this kind previously dated from around 35,000 years...

LADY DAI, World's Best Preserved Mummy

Who would have thought the world's best preserved mummy is not from Egypt or from the Aztecs BUT from China? Known as Lady Dai, this Western Han Dynasty's noblewomen was buried in style. She was buried in the innermost of four nested lacquer coffins with a vertitable wealth...

Archaeology: Move Over Venus of Willendorf

For the past hundred years the carved figure known as the Venus of Willendorf has been among the oldest carved artworks. It was discovered in a village in Austria and dated to between 22 000 and 24 000 BC. Now a new...

Lost City of Atlantis Found!!! No Joke

The UK Sun is running an article suggesting that Atlantis may have been found by a Google satellite. The report seems to be verified by the writings of Greek Philosopher Plato and where he indicated Atlantis...

An Archaeological Site Older than Moenjodaro Found in Pakistan

There is much excitement at the discovery of a possibly 9,000 year old archaeological site found in Sukkur, Pakistan. Sukkur is located at the bank of the River Indus in the province of Sindh. Moenjodaro and...

SecondLife.com: Are Virtual Worlds the Future of Education?

SecondLife.com, or Second Life, is an interactive "internet-based virtual world", which people enter in the form of a digital "avatar". The visual quality and number of environments, options and opportunities continues to expand- in addition to being a place where people...

DIG IT! That what must remain hidden

Archaeological remains define us. They constitute the collective memory of our culture. As pages in a book, layer upon layer of dirt harbours precious proof of what we once were. When dug up and studied...

3D Virtual Reality Environment Developed at UC San Diego Helps Scientists Inn...

Coming soon to your living room; full immersion "virtual reality" extreme sports, action, romance, horror, scifi and shopping"The StarCAVE is a five-sided virtual reality (VR) room where scientific models and animations are projected in stereo on 360-degree screens...

Big archaeology find in Egypt

While it has been historically difficult to get access to dig and study ruins in Egypt, a University of Chicago expedition has discovered a large administration building and silos dating back to early Egyptian...

Stonehenge 'a long-term cemetery'

Stonehenge may have served as a burial ground for much longer that has been previously suggested, according to new research conducted by the University of Sheffield."The site was used as a cemetery for 500 years,...

Norwegian blue parrot did exist

"This parrot is deceased A Monty Python fan has discovered that Norwegian parrots really did exist. Some 55 million years before John Cleese and Michael Palin immortalised the "Norwegian...

Archaeological finds dated to 35,000 years

" ANCIENT Aboriginal tools found on a Pilbara mine site in Western Australia have been dated at 35,000 years — among the oldest so far discovered in Australia.Archaeologists believe the dig could yield material up to 40,000 years old, comparable with the internationally...

New Book: Star of David Album

Three months after publishing his Hebrew book Magen David Black & White Israeli author Ze’ev Barkan (59) just published his English book titled Star of David Album. The book is about the pictorial...

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