2,000-year-old Phoenician coin was used as bus fare in England, but ‘how it got there will always be a mystery’
Kat Baxter, Leeds Museum and Galleries’ manager of archaeology and numismatics, reveals the front of the ancient coin. (Image credit: Leeds City Council) An interesting coin transferred into a bus…
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Lady of Elche: A 2,400-year-old bust of a mysterious ‘highborn’ woman from pre-Roman Spain
The strange Lady of Elche bust was found in Spain in the late 19th century (Image credit: Getty Images) FAST FACTS Call: Woman of Elche What it is: A limestone…
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14,000-year-old ivory tools found in Alaska hint at how Clovis ancestors first arrived in the New World
Excavation of a 13,700-year-old massive ivory workstation at the Holzman website. (Image credit: B. Wygal) Ancient tools discovered in Alaska might clarify how human beings very first gotten here in…
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7,500-year-old deer skull headdress discovered in Germany indicates hunter-gatherers shared sacred items and ideas with region’s first farmers
This deer skull headdress uncovered at the website of a Neolithic town shows individuals there engaged with Mesolithic hunter-gatherers. (Image credit: © Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie Sachsen-Anhalt, J. Lipták)…
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430,000-Year-Old Wooden Handheld Tools are Earliest Ever Found
Archaeologists state they have actually found the ‘earliest recognized portable wood tools’ at the Middle Pleistocene website of Marathousa 1 in Greece. An artist’s impression of a Marathousa 1 female…
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1,400-year-old Zapotec tomb discovered in Mexico features enormous owl sculpture symbolizing death
A toned owl, whose beak covers the painted face of a Zapotec lord, embellishes the front of a 1,400-year-old burial place in Oaxaca. (Image credit: Luis Gerardo Peña Torres/INAH) Archaeologists…
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480,000-year-old ax sharpener is the oldest known elephant bone tool ever discovered in Europe
The 480,000-year-old elephant bone tool was found at the Boxgrove historical site in the United Kingdom. (Image credit: NHM Photo Unit) A triangular artifact crafted from elephant bone was utilized…
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2,400-year-old Hercules shrine and elite tombs discovered outside ancient Rome’s walls
The 2 burial places date from the time of Rome’s Republic and were discovered near that city’s northeast Via Pietralata. (Image credit: Italian Culture Ministry) 2 elite burial places from…
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14,400-Year-Old Woolly Rhinoceros Genome Shows No Evidence of Recent Inbreeding
The woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatisis a cold-adapted herbivore that went extinct around 14,000 years back, however little is understood about their population decrease prior to termination. In brand-new research study,…
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These 60,000-year-old poison arrows are oldest yet found
Poisoned arrows or darts have actually long been utilized by cultures all over the world for searching or warfare. There are dishes for poisoning projective weapons, and releasing them in…
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