Saturday, 27 October 2018
Thursday, 25 October 2018
Golden treasure exposed due to low level of Danube River
![]() | Due to the record low level of the Danube River, a treasure trove has been exposed, including hundreds of gold and silver coins and ancient weapons. | ![]() |
Wednesday, 24 October 2018
Theater of ancient Metropolis - The Griffin
The Griffin
Tuesday, 23 October 2018
Ancient Greek vessel is the World’s oldest intact shipwreck
Monday, 22 October 2018
Graffiti changes the history of Pompeii
![]() | Other discoveries were made in the Regio V area of the site — mosaics and frescoes.![]() | ![]() |
Saturday, 20 October 2018
Lunar Meteorite brings $ 612k
A 12-pound (5.5 kilogram) meteorite discovered in Northwest Africa in 2017 has been sold at auction for US$612,500. Boston-based RR Auction announced the winning bid for the meteorite, composed of six fragments that fit together like a puzzle. It is considered one of the most significant lunar meteorites ever found because of its large size and because it has “partial fusion crust” caused by the tremendous heat that sears the rock as it falls to Earth. |
Friday, 19 October 2018
Gold from the Pulaski
![]() ![]() | A stash of gold coins found in January is the latest piece of evidence that a shipwreck 40-plus miles off the North Carolina coast is that of the steamship Pulaski, which exploded and took half its wealthy passengers to the bottom of the Atlantic in 1838.
Divers found 14 gold coins and 24 silver coins in a spot “no bigger than a cigar box.” All predate the ship’s sinking. Those involved have one particular passenger in mind: Charles Ridge, a man who survived but lost $20,000 in the disaster, all of it in gold coins. So far, divers have found 51 U.S., Spanish and Mexican coins during a half dozen visits. |
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Thursday, 18 October 2018
Ancient Chinese Four-goat Square Zun
![]() | Four-goat Square Zun. Height: 58.3cm Weight: around 34.5kg. Bronze. Late Shang Dynasty (1600-1046 BC)
The zun is a vase-like vessel used as a ritual container to hold wine in ancient China. This vessel is the largest square zun from the Shang Dynasty known. It is displayed in the National Museum of China in Beijing. | ![]() |
Wednesday, 17 October 2018
1,900-year-old branded designer lamps found in shipwreck
![]() | A Greek-U.S. team of marine archaeologists has located three ancient shipwrecks with pottery cargoes, including 1,900-year-old branded designer lamps, in a rich graveyard of ships in the eastern Aegean. The wrecks were found off Fourni island in notoriously treacherous waters between the larger islands of Ikaria and Samos. Two of its 13 islets bear the ominous name Anthropofas, or Man-eater, in reference to the seamen who drowned off them. |

Tuesday, 16 October 2018
Archaeologists use ground-penetrating radar to discover buried Viking ship
Saturday, 13 October 2018
Fifth-century child had “vampire burial”
![]() | Archaeologists have discovered the skeleton of a 10-year-old at an ancient Roman site in Italy with a rock carefully placed in its mouth. This suggests those who buried the child—who probably died of malaria during a deadly fifth century outbreak—feared it might rise from the dead and spread the disease to those who survived. Virtually every culture has some version of a vampire (or proto-vampire) myth. | ![]() Locals are calling it the "Vampire of Lugnano." |
Friday, 12 October 2018
Minoan Gold
![]() | According to Greek mythology, King Minos of Crete had the craftsman Daedalus construct the Labyrinth in order to conceal the Minotaur. The Minotaur was a half bull and half man creature that yearly ate the Athernian tribute of fourteen young men and women.![]() | ![]() |
![]() ![]() | The Bronze Age began in Crete as locals on the island developed centers of commerce. This enabled the upper classes to expand their influence. Eventually the ground would be laid for a monarchist power structure - a precondition for the creation of great empires. Around 1450 BCE, Minoan culture experienced a turning point due to a natural catastrophe, possibly the massive eruption on Thera. The palace in Knossos seems to have remained largely intact. The Minoan palace sites were occupied by the Myceneans around 1420 BC. By 1200 BC the Minoans had faded into history. | ![]() ![]() |
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