The fever of digging dinosaur shit at the end of the 19th century
Miners used to flock to Cambridgeshire, England in the 19th century to dig up dinosaur dung fossils for a profit. Coprolite, also known as prehistoric…
Archeaology
6,000-Year-Old Fishhook Was Used To Catch Sharks
Archaeologists in Israel have found a 6,000-year-old copper fishhook so large it may have been used to catch sharks. The piece, which was unearthed during…
153,000-Year-Old Homo sapiens Footprint Discovered in South Africa
The 153,000-year-old footprint, which was found in theĀ Garden Route National Park, a national park in the Garden Route region of the South African Western Cape…
Work on Romeās water system uncovers ancient funerary complex
Excavations in Rome have uncovered an ancient burial complex that held an intact ceramic funerary urn containing bone fragments and a terracotta dog’s head statue….
Arctic shipwreck ‘frozen in time’ astounds archaeologists
The wreck of H.M.S.Ā Terror, one of the long lost ships from Sir John Franklinās 1845 expedition to find the Northwest Passage, is astonishingly well preserved,…