Although many Americans associate the first Thanksgiving to a 1621 celebration at Plymouth, Thanksgiving services were routine in the future Commonwealth of Virginia as early as 1607. In fact, the first permanent settlement of Jamestown, Virginia held a Thanksgiving prayer… Read More ›
The Temple of Skulls is located in Tehuacán in Puebla, Mexico, and was built by the Popoloca people in the 14th century. Archaeologists from Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History dubbed it the Temple of the Skulls because of the… Read More ›
Earlier this month local divers in Indonesia discovered the wreckage of a WWII-era Nazi U-boat off the coast of Java. Thanks to the tip that they received from these divers, researchers from the National Archeology Center in Indonesia have discovered… Read More ›
Syphilis is a sexually transmitted disease caused by bacteria, Treponema palladium, and was first described during the Siege of Naples in 1495. It has three stages: primary, secondary, and tertiary. It’s during the tertiary stage, or the final stage, that bones are… Read More ›
Scott Doody, a local historian who wrote a book on the 1922 Herrin County Massacre, and a team of anthropologists, historians, and geologists have located and exhumed the graves of the victims of the 1922 Herrin Massacre. After the massacre,… Read More ›
On Thursday archaeologists, working on the Lincoln Castle Revealed project, began the process of opening the stone sarcophagus they found during excavation work at the castle earlier this year. Before the sarcophagus could be opened, experts created 3D scans of… Read More ›
This confirms it. I have to get a metal detector! A group of “amateur historians” using a metal detector in a field in South Finland stumbled upon the grave of a 12th century warrior. The group was in the area… Read More ›
On Monday, experts from Archaeology Warwickshire opened a lead-lined coffin they believe contains the remains of a child who died in Roman England, about 1700 years ago. When they got their first look inside the coffin, archaeologists found a thick… Read More ›
Philly.com reports that the graves of at least 5,000 African Americans, dating to the 18th and 19th centuries, have been discovered at the historic Mother Bethel A.M.E. cemetery in Philadelphia, which now lies a few feet under a playground. This… Read More ›
The image to the right, from the National Museum of Ireland, is of two seemingly unremarkable disks. These discs are gray in color are sub-oval, each have a hole at one end, and the edges are finished and rounded. These discs… Read More ›
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