Sam DoddOklahoma North America's lost civilisationverified_publisher BBC Travel - Larry BleibergIn 1933 on the eastern edge of the US state of Oklahoma, a group of failed gold prospectors watched as their partner struck a pickaxe into clay. Witnesses say the air hissed as it escaped from a burial...
Sam DoddCell Biology Ancient Human Genomes Reveal Peopling of the Americas Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News - Anjali A. Sarkar, PhD A ball of hair tangled around a whalebone comb was preserved in the arctic permafrost for nearly 4,000 years. Found in the 1980s and stored in a …
Sam DoddHistory A Rare Glimpse of Neanderthal Family Groups realclearscience.com - Ann Gibbons More than 49,000 years ago, a family of Neanderthals set up camp in a cave high in Siberia’s Altai Mountains, overlooking a river valley where bison, …
Sam DoddShipwrecks The Oldest Intact Shipwreck “Odysseus” was an Ancient Greek Vessel greekreporter.com - Tasos Kokkinidis The discovery of the ancient Greek shipwreck “Odysseus,” thought to be the oldest of its kind ever found, at the bottom of the Black Sea could change …
Sam DoddPrehistory Electric Company Uncovers Thousands of Millennia-Old Objects in Southwest England artnews.com - Jesse Holth An electric company in England has uncovered a host of millennia-old objects dating to the Neolithic, Bronze Age, Roman, and Saxon periods at a site …
Sam DoddPompeii 'A Unique Find, Without Any Precedent': Construction Workers Discover a 'Miniature Pompeii' Buried in Verona | Artnet News artnet.com - Sarah Cascone Workers have unearthed gorgeous ancient Roman frescoes at an abandoned cinema. Construction workers renovating an abandoned cinema in the northern …
Sam DoddHistory Girl buried with finch in her mouth puzzles archaeologists Live Science - Owen Jarus Archaeologists are trying to solve the mystery of a girl who was buried with the head of at least one finch in her mouth hundreds of years …
Sam DoddChromosomes Viking warriors reunited after 1,000 years apart rte.ie - RTÉ News Separated for 1,000 years, two Viking warriors from the same family were reunited today at Denmark's National Museum, as DNA analysis helps shed …
Sam DoddHistory Hoard of silver coins may have been part of historic ransom to save Paris Live Science - Tom Metcalfe A hoard of silver coins minted in the Carolingian Empire about 1,200 years ago has been unearthed in northeastern Poland and may have been part of a …
Sam DoddFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoNorway Beeswax Discovered in 400-Year-Old Wooden Box in Norway - Archaeology Magazine archaeology.org - Jessica Esther Saraceni OSLO, NORWAY—Gizmodo reports that researchers from the Museum of Cultural History in Oslo identified the remnants of beeswax candles inside a …
Sam DoddBronze Age Sky’s the limit: how Bronze Age people travelled and traded much further afield than commonly thought theartnewspaper.com - Catherine Hickley Buried in the heart of Europe 3,600 years ago, the Nebra Sky Disc is an archaeological find unlike any other. It was excavated illegally in 1999 by …
