The mummified remains of a sabre-toothed cat cub has been recovered in an exceptional state of preservation from the permafrost of Siberia. Radiocarbon dating found the cub lived and died 35,500 to 37,000 years ago. Paleontologist Alexey Lopatin found the cub while looking for mammoth tusks on the Badyarikha River in the Republic of Sakha … Read the full post →"Sabre-toothed cub mummy found in Siberia"
Italian authorities have seized an exceptional group of Etruscan urns, sarcophagi and funerary objects looted from a single tomb in Città della Pieve, a town near Perugia in the central Italian region of Umbria. The objects include eight stone urns, two sarcophagi and a rich set of more than 50 funerary goods dating to the … Read the full post →"Exceptional Etruscan sarcophagi, urns seized from looters"
An excavation in the ancient city of Hadrianopolis in the Black Sea Region of northern Turkey has uncovered an amulet depicting the prophetic king Solomon on horseback driving a spear into a demon. Based on the stratigraphy of the archaeological context, the amulet dates to the 5th century. [Karabuk University Faculty of Letters, Department of … Read the full post →"Amulet with Solomon spearing a demon found in ancient Hadrianopolis"
One of the largest mass burial pits ever discovered in the UK has been unearthed next to Leicester Cathedral. The pit contained the skeletal remains of 123 men, women and children dumped down a narrow vertical shaft in the early 12th century. “Their bones show no signs of violence – which leaves us with two … Read the full post →"12th c. mass pit burial found at Leicester Cathedral"
Yet another note from a past archaeologist has been unearthed by present-day archaeologists, this time in a Viking ship burial. The message in a bottle was left by Anders Lorange of the Bergen Museum in 1874 when he excavated the largest Viking ship burial ever found at the Myklebust farm on Nordfjordeid, western Norway. Myklebust … Read the full post →"Archaeologist leaves message in Viking ship burial"
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