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New images of a possible lost city hidden by Honduran rain forests show what might be the building foundations and mounds of Ciudad Blanca, a never-confirmed legendary metropolis. Archaeologists and filmmakers Steven Elkins and Bill Benenson announced last year that they had discovered possible ruins in Honduras’ Mosquitia region using lidar, or light detection and ranging. Essentially, slow-flying planes send constant laser pulses toward the ground as they pass over the rain forest, [...] Hundreds of mysterious spheres lie beneath the Temple of the Feathered Serpent, an ancient six-level step pyramid just 30 miles from Mexico City. Aaron Dykes RELATED: 10 Reasons Why It’s Not The End of the World As We Know It Are we living in the end times? For years, the fast approaching end of the Mayan calendar, calculated to end Friday, December 21, 2012 during the winter solstice has been hyped as an apocalyptic conclusion to life as we know it. After all, the wildness of the current political scene, the unfolding world government, the [...] Archaeologists in Guatemala announced the discovery of the second-known reference to the “end date” of the Mayan calendar, found inscribed on panels recently uncovered at the La Corona archaeological site. The panels are 1,300 years old, and are considered one of the most significant hieroglyphic discoveries in decades. [Dr. David Stuart, University of Texas at Austin]: Stephanie Pappas A newly discovered statue of a curly-haired man gripping a spear and a sheath of wheat once guarded the upper citadel of an ancient kingdom’s capital. The enormous sculpture, which is intact from about the waist up, stands almost 5 feet (1.5 meters) tall, suggesting that its full height with legs would have been between 11 and 13 feet (3.5 to 4 m). Alongside the statue, [...] Some 1,600 years ago, the Temple of the Night Sun was a blood-red beacon visible for miles and adorned with giant masks of the Maya sun god as a shark, blood drinker, and jaguar. Long since lost to the Guatemalan jungle, the temple is finally showing its faces to archaeologists, and revealing new clues about the rivalrous kingdoms of the Maya. Unlike the relatively centralized Aztec and Inca empires, the Maya civilization—which [...] Fashion experts have been surprised by the discovery of four bras around 600 years old in an Austrian castle. The underwear style was thought to be a little over 100 years old as women abandoned tight corsets, but the linen versions unearthed by archaeologists date back to the middle ages, the University of Innsbruck said on Wednesday. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jul/18/medieval-bras-discovered-austrian-castle Archaeologists in Mexico City have unearthed the skulls and other bones of 15 people, most of them the children of traveling merchants during Aztec times. The mysterious mass grave had a ceremonial purpose, researchers say – and the children were surrounded by religious items including a dog sacrificed to ‘keep them company.’ Researcher Alejandra Jasso Pena says they also found ceramic flutes, bowls, incense burners. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2174367/Mysterious-1200AD-temple-Mexico-City-bodies-15-children–dog-killed-company-afterlife.html#ixzz20sVE68E2 via HUFFPOST:
Mummies found off the coast of Scotland are Frankenstein-like composites of several corpses, researchers say. This mixing of remains was perhaps designed to combine different ancestries into a single lineage, archaeologists speculated. The bodies were first unearthed in 2001 during excavations beneath the foundations of an approximately 3,000-year-old house on South Uist, an island in the Outer Hebrides off the west coast of Scotland. The building was one of three roundhouses [...] Divers have found traces of ancient land swallowed by waves 8500 years ago Described as the ‘real heartland’ of Europe
‘Britain’s Atlantis’ – a hidden underwater world swallowed by the North [...] Divers have found traces of ancient land swallowed by waves 8500 years ago Described as the ‘real heartland’ of Europe
‘Britain’s Atlantis’ – a hidden underwater world swallowed by the North [...] An unexpected find in a very unusual place has been made in France’s royal residence outside Paris. A hairpin once worn by 16th century Queen Catherine de Medici was discovered down a communal toilet. The Renaissance relic was discovered in Fontainebleau Palace when archaeologists dug the soil around the toilet area preparing for restoration work, the Associated Press reports. According to French officials it is the first time in modern history [...] DNA tests on three bones confirmed they were probably from someone of Middle East origin – where John the Baptist came from When archaeologists claimed to have found the bones of John the Baptist amid the ruins of an ancient Bulgarian monastery experts were understandably sceptical. But carbon dating tests carried out at Oxford University have provided scientific evidence to support the [...] JERUSALEM — Vandals badly damaged a rare 1,600-year-old mosaic in the northern Israeli city of Tiberias that formed the floor of an ancient synagogue, smashing parts to rubble and scrawling graffiti, antiquity officials said Tuesday. Experts suspect extremist Jews who object, sometimes violently, to excavations they claim involve ancient grave sites. There was no claim of responsibility. Police are investigating. Guards found the damage on Tuesday morning, said archeologists involved in the [...] Picture via Reuters It’s about the size of a one penny piece, but its significance is huge. Israeli archaeologists revealed today they have unearthed an incredible 2,700-year-old fragment that could prove the ‘Bethlehem’ as described in the Old Testament really existed. The tiny artifact is part of an ancient seal that’s believed to be the oldest object ever found with the name of Jesus’ traditional birthplace inscribed on it. According to experts, its existence [...] ‘Red deer people’ lived 14,500-11,500 years ago in Asia Four Stone Age people found in caves in China could be a entirely new species of humanoid – and the discovery ‘opens a new chapter’ in the history of evolution, say [...]
ATHENS — Available for rent: The Acropolis. In a move bound to leave many Greeks and scholars aghast, Greece’s culture ministry said Tuesday it will open up some of the debt-stricken country’s most-cherished archaeological sites to advertising firms and other ventures. The ministry says the move is a common-sense way of helping “facilitate” access to the country’s ancient Greek ruins, and money generated would fund the upkeep and monitoring of sites. The [...] The burial ground holds not only a hoard of precious objects but also hints of human sacrifice — and several dozen graves of a mysterious people with links to both the Vikings and the rulers of the founding states of eastern Europe. Researchers are especially intrigued by the Young Warrior, who died a violent death in his 20s. The man’s jaw is fractured, his skull laced with cut marks. The sword [...] The satellite spotted two previously undiscovered pyramids in the area near the Sakkara pyramid (pictured), 25 kilometres south of Cairo. (AFP: Khaled Desouki)
A new satellite survey of Egypt has identified 17 lost pyramids and more than 1,000 un-excavated tombs. The team from the University of Alabama analysed images from satellites orbiting the earth that have infrared cameras which can highlight different materials under the [...] The 3-year-old is only the second Ice Age child discovered on the continent, according to the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Archaeologists discovered the remains in a fire pit in an abandoned living area from 13,200 years ago and dated the child’s death to about 11,500 years ago, according to research by UAF’s Ben Potter and his team in today’s edition of the journal Science. In one of [...] |
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