A team of experts has found a mummy estimated to be at least 800 years old on Peru’s central coast, one of the archaeologists who participated in the excavation said. The mummified remains were of a person from the culture that developed between the coast and mountains of the South American country. The mummy, whose […]
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Rescued from obscurity: UK archaeologist who restored Sicily’s glories | Heritage
In the 1920s, the discovery of ancient ruins in Sicily, now the largest archaeological site in the world, was celebrated with excitement in British newspapers. It was hailed with much the same level of enthusiasm as was given to Howard Carter and Arthur Evans’s excavations of the treasures of Tutankhamun and the palace of Knossos. […]
New tests show neolithic pits near Stonehenge were human-made | Archaeology
When a series of deep pits were discovered near the world heritage site of Stonehenge last year, archaeologists excitedly described it as the largest prehistoric structure ever found in Britain – only for some colleagues to dismiss the pits as mere natural features. Now scientific tests have proved that those gaping pits, each aligned to […]
‘It was terrifying’: ancient book’s journey from Irish bog to museum treasure | Museums
One summer’s day in Tipperary as peat was being dug from a bog, a button peered out from the freshly cut earth. The find set off a five-year journey of conservation to retrieve and preserve what lay beyond: a 1,200-year-old psalm book in its original cover. Bogs across Europe have thrown up all sorts of […]
FBI searching one-time New Jersey waste dump for body of Jimmy Hoffa
The FBI is surveying a former New Jersey landfill — once condemned as an environmental disaster site — as part of the agency’s long-running investigation into the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa, the infamous Teamster labor union leader who mysteriously vanished in 1975. Federal agents visited the site on Oct. 25 and 26 to conduct a […]
Global heating is destroying rock art tens of thousands of years old, experts warn | Indigenous art
Rock art that has lasted tens of thousands of years is being destroyed by the climate emergency in a matter of years. Coastal erosion, fires, floods and cyclones are among the extreme events predicted to get more severe with global heating. Archaeologists and historians are now warning that serious damage has already been done. A […]
WWII ‘ghost ships’ rise from Pacific after volcanic eruption
The ships were brought up by the rising seabed around an underwater volcano. Seismic activity from an underwater volcano near Tokyo has raised two dozen “ghost ships” — sunk after one of World War II’s most famous battles — from the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. Helicopter footage from Japan’s All Nippon News (ANN) captured the 24 […]
‘Rare find’: amphitheatre dig in Kent paints picture of Roman town | Roman Britain
A big night out for the people of the Roman settlement at Richborough on the Kent coast about 2,000 years ago might have involved gladiatorial contests, wild beast hunting or the occasional execution of a criminal. Taking place in a vast amphitheatre, seating up to 5,000 people, on the western edge of the settlement, such […]
Jeremy Deller gets radical, Inca treasures are unveiled and poppies spring up in Manchester – the week in art | Art
Exhibition of the week Peru: A Journey in Time Thousands of years of art and history should make for a revelatory experience, from the Nazca earth drawings that some connect with alien landings, to the splendour of the Incas and beyond. British Museum, London, 11 November to 20 February. Also showing Jeremy Deller: Prints and […]
Sunken World War II-Era Ships Are Rising from the Sea Near Iwo Jima
Volcanic activity beneath Iwo Jima, site of a defining World War II battle between American and Japanese forces, is pushing sunken naval vessels to the surface. Two dozen World War II-era ships in the water just off the island’s black-sand beaches were photographed from above and reported Oct. 18 by the All-Nippon News Network. Although […]