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Image shows Harrison Ford's slender snake (Tachymenoides harrisonfordi), undated photo. It was named after the famous actor by a group of scientists at the German Society for Herpetology and Herpetoculture in the village of Salzhemmendorf, Lower Saxony State, Germany. (E. Lehr, DGHT/Newsflash)

New Snake Named After Indiana Jones Star Harrison Ford

Post author:Georgina Jedikovska
Post published:August 20, 2023

Scientists have named a newly discovered species of snake after Indian Jones star Harrison Ford. The snake - known scientifically as Tachymenoides harrisonfordi - is a Peruvian slender snake and…

Image shows the underwater excavation work, undated photo. Swiss and Greek archaeologists recently completed the third season of excavations on the wreck of Antikythera, Greece. (GoPro Cam, ESAG-UNIGE/Newsflash)

Shipwreck That Had World’s Oldest Computer Featured In New Indiana Jones Film Has 2nd Mystery Wreck Nearby

Post author:Georgina Jedikovska
Post published:August 12, 2023

Historians examining the Roman shipwreck where the Dial of Destiny from the new Indiana Jones film was found deep underwater and surrounded by skeletons have found a second ship nearby.…

Photo shows the artefacts that were allegedly stolen from a museum in Sohag University, Egypt, undated photo. Four people have been arrested in the Egyptian province of Sohag over the theft of 59 artefacts from the archaeological museum at Sohag University. (Egypt's Ministry of Interior/Newsflash)

Students Seized After Father Helped Them Raid Ancient Egyptian Museum

Post author:Alice Amelia Thomas
Post published:October 30, 2022

Three students and one of their dads have been seized by Egyptian police after they carried out a bungled heist at an archaeological museum packed with ancient artefacts. The raid…

The items given by the family in Spain are seen in Mexico facilities in an undated picture. They are kept by the INAH in the Museum of Templo Mayor. (Gerardo Torres-INAH/Newsflash)

Real-Life Indiana Joneses Use Hotel Ashtray To Date When Ancient Artefacts Were Looted

Post author:Joseph Golder
Post published:August 4, 2022

Experts tracking a collection of more than 2,000 ancient Mexican treasures have been helped by five-cent coins and a hotel ashtray stashed with them. Officials from the Mexican National Institute…

Androctonus mauretanicus in Morocco. (Dr Michel Dugon/Newsflash)

Researchers Show The Smaller The Scorpion, The Deadlier Its Sting

Post author:William McGee
Post published:May 8, 2022

Researchers have shown that Indiana Jones was right all along - the smaller the scorpion, the deadlier its sting. Researchers from the National University of Ireland (NUI), Galway have shown…

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