Researchers of the Department of Anthropology of the Americas at the University of Bonn, excavating in Mexico, have discovered a mass grave containing 24 people. The mass grave is located in an artificial cave in the Maya city of Uxul,… Read More ›
Archaeology
Ancient mass grave uncovered at Britain’s largest Iron Age hillfort
I wrote about this last week as a blurb in the Archaeology and Science Links on 09/02/13, with a link to the Phys.org article. I didn’t spend too much time on it then because there weren’t that many details published… Read More ›
Headless skeleton discovered in a well in a Roman Cemetery
Last week, This is Gloucestershire reported that Cotswold Archaeology discovered a skeleton at the bottom of a well at the center of the Roman cemetery in Gloucester. The find of the skeleton itself is not news worthy, because this archaeological… Read More ›
Mystery Wrapped in an Enigma: X-Rays of Attic Mummy Create More Questions Than Answers
Last month a boy in Kreiszeitung, Germany found a mummy in a hidden sarcophagus in his grandmother’s attic. Many thought at the time it was a hoax. These people maybe right, just not in the way they thought. The CT… Read More ›
Another vampire burial found in Bulgaria
Archaeologists working on Bulgaria’s Perperikon site have found a 700 year old grave. They believe the burial contains the remains of a male, about 35 to 40 years of age, who was impaled with a ploughshare through left side of… Read More ›
The archaeological finds at Lincoln Castle
The Lincolnshire Echo has a great article that summarizes all the great finds they have made to-date at the dig at Lincoln Castle, including human remains, Roman walls and mosaics, and a church site. You can see more pics and… Read More ›
Archaeologists to remove sarcophagus discovered at Lincoln Castle
Archaeologists have uncovered a stone sarcophagus near a previously unknown church at Lincoln Castle. They believe it dates to about 900AD and contains the remains of a member of Saxon nobility or a bishop. The archaeologists hope to conduct digital… Read More ›
The ‘Franken Mummies’ of Scotland
Reading about the bog bodies recently excavated in Ireland this week brought to mind the two bog mummies unearthed off the coast of Scotland in 2001. The mummies were discovered under the remains of Bronze Age roundhouses at Cladh Hallan…. Read More ›
Researchers set to ID remains that may belong to Alfred the Great
Skeletal remains, consisting of five skulls and other bones, were recovered from a family tomb in St. Bartholomew’s Church in Winchester England, in March of this year. Last week the church granted researches permission to analyze the remains. The goal… Read More ›
Remains of a forgotten African American graveyard found in South Philadelphia
This week a team of archaeologists with the URS Corporation dug up evidence of a 19th century graveyard associated with the oldest African American church in the country, Mother Bethel A.M.E. Church. Archaeologists working at the site have found evidence… Read More ›
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