A coffin with the skeletal remains of the ‘Dark Countess’, who some suspect is Marie Thérèse Charlotte, was reburied after a ceremony in Hildburghausen, Germany. You can see the exclusive photo here. Hopefully we’ll get more photos and news from… Read More ›
In 1998, construction workers doing repair work in the basement at 36 Craven Street in London found more than 1200 pieces of bone (human and nonhuman) in a pit that was 1 meter wide and 1 meter deep. Since old human… Read More ›
Novinite reports that archaeologists working near the town of Marten in northern Bulgaria have discovered hundreds of ancient graves that span centuries. Archaeologists working on emergency excavations in the gas pipeline route between Bulgaria and Romania have unearthed a necropolis with 376 graves. Experts believe these graves are from different… Read More ›
Last week, a small lead coffin was unearthed in field near Tamworth and Leicestershire, by a metal detector enthusiast club, Digging Up The Past. The coffin, believed between 1600 and 1900 years old, was found four feet underground, and about two… Read More ›
The Herrin City Council in Southern Illinois approved additional cemetery excavation work to find the remains of victims of a massacre during a 1922 labor strike at a nearby coal mine owned by the Southern Illinois Coal Co. The research team hopes to… Read More ›
The origins of the vampire legend can be traced to ancient Egypt and Greece. But in Europe, between 1300 and 1700, there were a series of plagues that helped to cultivate the belief in vampires due mainly to misconceptions about… Read More ›
The grave of the “Dark Countess,” who some believe was Marie Thérèse Charlotte, was exhumed on Tuesday in Germany, in the hope of resolving the 200-year-old mystery. Marie Thérèse, the eldest daughter of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI of France, was the only… Read More ›
The limestone sarcophagus thought to date from around 900AD, was found earlier this year with eight skeletons alongside a Saxon church, and may contain the remains of a Saxon king or bishop. An examination with an endoscope revealed it contains… Read More ›
Archeologists have uncovered the remains of a savage massacre that took place 1500 years ago on the remote island fort of Öland in Sweden. The victims fell were they lay and remained untouched for centuries. Helene Wilhelmson, an osteologist at Sweden’s… Read More ›
The city of London is built on marshland in the Thames river valley. The archaeological record shows that Mesolithic people settled the area as early as 7000 years ago, but the Romans founded the city in the 1st century. Though… Read More ›
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