Mystery Of Lost Spanish Colony: A 440-year-old coin just solved the mystery of a lost Spanish colony in Chile | World News

[ad_1] The coordinates of the doomed Spanish settlement, Rey Don Felipe, remained a mystery to the maritime world for over four centuries. Recently, however, archaeologists in southern Chile uncovered a 440-year-old silver coin that serves as a definitive geographic anchor where this doomed colony was located. The coin, which was found using advanced metal detection, […]

A hidden world 2.5-kilometre down: How an underwater drone discovered France’s deepest shipwreck | World News

[ad_1] A new era in maritime archaeology has been opened up with the major discovery of a French Navy-controlled shipwreck site at a depth of 2567 meters, far from shore at Ramatuelle in the Mediterranean Sea. According to the official Préfet Maritime de la Méditerranée report, this vessel- dubbed Camarat 4- is the deepest known […]

Archaeologists uncover tunnels inside 6000-year-old Neolithic site in Germany | World News

[ad_1] Archaeologists uncover tunnels inside 6000-year-old Neolithic site in Germany (Image Source – Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie Sachsen-Anhalt, Ulf Petzschmann) Archaeologists in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt have uncovered an unusual underground tunnel inside a much older prehistoric burial site near the village of Reinstedt. The discovery was made during routine excavations carried out […]

A 4,500-year-old journal explains how Egypt built the Great Pyramid of Giza | World News

[ad_1] Source: National Geographic One of the biggest unanswered questions in history for the past few thousand years is the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt. Since its erection, it has been an unsolved enigma as to how the ancient Egyptians moved stones into place, as they weigh in the order of several tons each, […]

Family finds 3,000-year-old ‘treasure’ on a weekend walk | World News

[ad_1] What began as a relaxed weekend outing turned into a remarkable archaeological discovery when three generations of one family uncovered a 3,000-year-old Bronze Age hoard during a walk in the English countryside. Simon Weller, his 79-year-old father Chris, and his nine-year-old daughter Amelia were metal detecting in a field near Lewes when they unearthed […]

A time capsule from 8,500 years ago: Archaeologists discover preserved city under the ocean | World News

[ad_1] Archaeologists have uncovered a remarkably well-preserved Stone Age settlement submerged around 8,500 years ago beneath the waters of the Bay of Aarhus, off Denmark’s coast. Dubbed the “Stone Age Atlantis,” the site went underwater as massive ice sheets melted at the end of the last Ice Age, raising sea levels and flooding coastal communities. […]