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Came across this in Archeology Mag today. Interesting that the place of execution of the Salem witches could be forgotton. This topic has interested...

Board game and luxuries discovered in Crusader castle in the Galilee

Archaeologists exploring the enigmatic Teutonic fort also found projectiles...

An iconic Bronze Age girl who was buried in Denmark about 3,400 years ago came from a foreign land, a new analysis of her hair and teeth suggests....

Eds Coral Castle Quarry and Flywheel, Engineering Mystery Solved

Its about 20 min long a tad boring, but it does seem to explain this modern...

3,800-Year-Old 'Tableau' of Egyptian Boats Discovered

More than 120 images of ancient Egyptian boats have been discovered adorning the inside of a...

Something for ed:

THE 'OLD GENTLEMAN' OF RAAHE -the oldest surviving diving suit in the world.

The best-known item in Raahe Museum is the Old...

The Art of Onfim: Medieval Novgorod Through the Eyes of a Child

One of the most fascinating archeological finds in Russia has been the discovery...

The Sword of Goujian (Traditional Chinese: 越王勾踐劍, Simplified Chinese: 越王勾践剑) is an archaeological artifact of the Spring and Autumn period (771 to...

Ancient Find

And yes, hipsters bought them up after this video because make kickass retro-clocks.

For when you have time to waste.

Clay figurine is Bronze Age ancestor of Rodin’s ‘Thinker’

Archaeologist who unearthed 3,800-year-old ceramic statue in Yehud says nothing like it...

Researchers Trace 300-Year-Old Lump of Poop to Danish Bishop

The upper class contents of the little nugget suggests it likely belonged to Bishop...

Apparently the Swiss were already into modern art? :?

Archaeologists have uncovered a gigantic, 1,500-year-old stone monument near the Caspian Sea in Kazakhstan. The structure is reminiscent of...

What makes the Deadwood coin special is that it may be the only racketeer nickel to actually show up in an archeological dig. The fact that it was...

Florida Man, who else?

Frandsen’s collection of 1,277 chunks of mineralized feces, otherwise known as coprolites, has been certified as the...

You may remember the amazing find of the bones of Richard III. Since then there has been an autopsy. Interesting stuff that makes archeology so...

My mind is going, I cant remember if I posted this.

Recovered from Normandy, or so the story goes. Have no reason to disbelieve it. About 1...

Boomerangs are usually associated with Australian aborigines but these amazing wooden weapons have been found in Egypt, apparently dating back 2,000...

The Temple Mount Sifting Project (formerly known as the Temple Mount Salvage Operation) is an Israeli archaeological project begun in 2005 dedicated...

Interesting article.

The Megalithic Portal .

A bit of woo going on, but quite usable to find a location and see some on-site pictures.

The Froggies are, since 2014, scratching the dirt off an enormous Iron Age princely tomb/tumulus in Lavau (banks of the Seine river):

Major...

Photo mosaic of the 123-foot schooner Rouse Simmons, which lies in 170 feet of water in Lake Michigan. The video was captured during one 25-minute...

Satyr & nymph

(Bar/Brothel of Innulus and Papilio): Weep, you girls. My penis has given you up. Now it penetrates men’s behinds. Goodbye, wondrous...

The Praeneste fibula (the brooch of Palestrina ) is a golden fibula or brooch, today housed in the Museo Preistorico Etnografico Luigi Pigorini in...

Greek police break up gang that excavated, sold antiquities

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek police said Wednesday they have broken up a major gang that...

I like things that are sort of messages from the past, an inscription in an old book that no one has noticed for 300 years, an arrow fired into a...

X-Ray tomography (with the synchrotron in Grenoble, used only to produce X-Rays):

The scrolls aren't your typical 2,000-year old papyri...

Archaeologists have virtually reconstructed an ancient Pompeii house in 3D, revealing the beauty of a well-to-do Italian home almost 2,000 years...

Archaeological team prepares 4,000-year-old Hittite meals

The 4,000-year-old Hittite cuisine was cooked in Alacahöyük, an important Neolithic...

Well that's what the man says.

Iraq’s Transport Minister Kazem Finjan claims that the first airport in the world was built by ancient aliens....

Sorry guys, found no good video in English but I'll summarize the comments and you'll get it easily from the graphics:

The foundations have been...

A Single Migration From Africa Populated the World, Studies Find

Modern humans evolved in Africa roughly 200,000 years ago. But how did our species...

Monumental Forgotten Gardens of Petra Rediscovered After 2,000 Years

Petra is perhaps best known for its sandstone canyon that leads directly to...

Experts using a novel computer imaging program have for the first time virtually unwrapped an ancient scroll too burned and fragile to be opened.

In...

A 2,100-year-old marble mother goddess sculpture of Kybele has been unearthed during excavations in the Black Sea province of Ordu’s Kurul Castle,...

Ötzi the Iceman was a dapper dresser. About 5,300 years ago, he sported a fur hat made from a brown bear, a sheepskin loincloth, leggings and a coat...

High-tech imaging reveals rare precolonial Mexican manuscript hidden from view for 500 years

Researchers from the Bodleian Libraries and from...

An interesting article about what lies beneath the streets of NYC.

The fact that there are steam pipes under there always surprised me.

Two...

Remarkable ancient structure found just two miles from Stonehenge

Exclusive: Stonehenge had a close, wooden rival of gigantic proportions - that...

Steve1989 is part of the youtube niche of people who review MREs. He somehow got a hold of one from 1943 and opens it.

Seeing it full of...

Ancient Poop Sticks Offer Clues to the Spread of Disease Along the Silk Road

The parasites found within the 2,000-year-old-feces smeared on bamboo...

Time traveling to the mother tongue

The sounds of languages that died thousands of years ago have been brought to life again through technology...

I have seen this before, but it popped up again in one of my other haunts

Ancient D20 Emerges From The Ashes of Time

Jokes about Ptolemaic nerds...

The earliest bra. Found in Austria.

Using both their archaeological context—the fill layer was likely created during a fifteenth-century renovation...

Philistines more sophisticated than given credit for, say reseachers

Discovery of 3,000-year-old cemetery in Ashkelon will dispel many myths and...

Always enjoyed the story about the goddess and her temple at ‘Ain Dara. There is a lot of crapola on Al Gore's interwebs. Wiki is fairy decent,...