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Ancient DNA Puts Humans in the Americas at the Height of the Last Ice Age, but the Mystery Is Far From Solved
31+ min ago (909+ words) Genetic evidence points to an Ice Age migration, but ancient footprints suggest an earlier human presence. Some 23,000 years ago, the first people walked along the muddy edge of a lake in what is now New Mexico. Their feet sank into…...
Centuries-old cannon unearthed at worksite in city’s north
28+ min ago (294+ words) A three-metre-long historic cannon was discovered on Thursday during construction works on Estrada Marginal da Ilha Verde, with an emergency crew later confirming that the relic posed no danger. According to a Thursday release, the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) has since…...
New discoveries at Rossett Roman villa shed light on life in Roman Wales
6+ hour, 44+ min ago (970+ words) Archaeologists have uncovered new evidence about life in Roman Wales following the latest excavation at the site of the first confirmed Roman villa discovered in Wrexham. A complete quern stone, used for grinding grain, was uncovered by excavators buried in…...
Ancient Indigenous geoglyph damaged by Border Patrol confirmed older than Stonehenge, Pyramids
18+ hour, 24+ min ago (575+ words) LAUREN GILGER: And now let’s turn to that other part of the border where President Trump’s promised border wall is also being built, this time within the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge west of the town of Ajo. Here, border…...
Ancient Americans found where ‘no humans should have been’
10+ hour, 29+ min ago (86+ words) Archaeologists found Clovis-era remains and artifacts in the Montana mountains, which defies our previous notion of North America’s environment at that time.Evidence shows that the Clovis people lived in the high country near Yellowstone before anyone thought possible.The…...
Rare discovery in Egypt, 2-year-old ring with the image of one of the Seven Wonders of the World found at the bottom of the sea
9+ hour, 17+ min ago (390+ words) Balkanweb.com Rare discovery in Egypt, 2-year-old ring with the image of one of the Seven Wonders of the World found at the bottom of the sea October 09, 2026 09:58 A nearly 2,000-year-old bronze ring depicting the famous Lighthouse of Alexandria has…...
Mississippi’s ‘Dummy Mummy’ returns to Two Mississippi Museums for Halloween
2+ hour, 24+ min ago (205+ words) JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - An infamous legend is back on display for a limited time. The Dummy Mummy, inside her cloth-lined black wooden coffin, will haunt the halls of the Two Mississippi Museums through Halloween. In 1923, MDAH acquired thousands of artifacts…...
Construction Workers Found a 400-Year-Old Shipwreck Beneath the Sea and a Strange Object No One Can Identify
2+ hour, 30+ min ago (623+ words) One peculiar object aboard still has experts guessing. His hunch proved correct. Resting about 7.5 meters (25 feet) beneath the surface were the battered remains of a wooden vessel built in the 17th century. Timber analysis traced one piece to a tree felled…...
A Diver Went Underwater to Collect Trash. Instead, He Found a 17-Foot Canoe Hidden in Lake Mud
2+ hour, 25+ min ago (874+ words) Experts suspect it was sunk on purpose long ago. The May 6 dive was supposed to be a routine cleanup. Mark Schachtner and other volunteers from the Four Seasons Dive Club were collecting trash from the bottom of Pewaukee Lake, about…...
How ancient pottery styles reveal the rise and fall of Neolithic societies
3+ hour, 34+ min ago (287+ words) Societies don’t change in a straight line. Neolithic Europe, from about 8,000 to 4,000 years ago, shows this well. Two researchers built a mathematical model to study what drove the ups and downs. Dr. Aleksandr Diachenko of the Institute of Archaeology at…...