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Picture shows the ten meter long wooden boat at the bottom of Lake Mjosa, Norway. Scientists suspect it has been there since the Middle Ages, it was dicovered during a two-week investigation using Hugin, an autonomous submarine mapping explosives and ammunition waste, in November, 2022. (FFI, NTNU/Newsflash)

Medieval Shipwreck Found At Bottom Of Lake

Post author:Joseph Golder
Post published:December 6, 2022

A shipwreck thought to date back hundreds of years to medieval times has been found perfectly preserved at the bottom of a lake. An unmanned sub equipped with cameras discovered…

Picture shows the ancient ship mock-up, undated. Remains from a shipwreck have been salvaged after over 150 years. (State Administration of Cultural Heritage/AsiaWire)

Amazed Archaeologists Find Perfectly Preserved Pots In 150-Year-Old Shipwreck

Post author:Simona Kitanovska
Post published:December 2, 2022

Archaeologists in China have discovered an astonishing haul of historic treasures after salvaging a 150-year-old shipwreck from the bottom of the Yangtze river. The 125-foot-long wooden vessel, known as the…

Picture shows a turtle footprint in undated footage. Researchers from the Zhucheng Dinosaur Culture Research Center in Shandong Province, China, found more than 20 turtle footprints in dinosaur tracks at the Huanglonggou dinosaur footprint fossil site. (AsiaWire)

Amazed Boffins Discover 100-Million Years Old Turtle Footprints

Post author:Simona Kitanovska
Post published:November 14, 2022

Scientists in China have discovered 100-million-years-old fossilised turtle footprints, including one ‘among the world’s best preserved’. The rare discovery was made at the Huanglonggou fossil site, located in the eastern…

Image shows an adult male skeleton in undated photo. (Jochen Reinhard (ADA)/Newsflash)

4,500-Year-Old Stone Age Man Found Buried Under School

Post author:Georgina Jedikovska
Post published:September 28, 2022

Astonished archaeologists have unearthed a Stone Age tomb under a school with the perfectly preserved skeleton of a middle-aged man. The ancient grave was first found by a mechanical digger…

Image shows the extinct ant in the Hereon measuring station at DESY's X-ray light source PETRA III in an undated photo. A German research team from the University of Jena discovered a previously unknown extinct ant in 20 million-years-old amber. (Hammel, Laustroer/Newsflash)

Boffins Discover New 20-Million-Year-Old Ant Species Encased In Amber

Post author:William McGee
Post published:September 9, 2022

Astonished scientists have discovered a previously unknown species of ant after scanning a 20-million-year-old block of amber. Researchers in Germany, France and Poland made the remarkable find after using micro-computed…

126 separate brigade of territorial defense of Odessa found ancient amphoras while digging trenches in Odessa, Ukraine. (126 separate brigade of territorial defense of Odessa/Newsflash)

Pot Luck As Trench Digging Soldiers Find Ancient Amphoras

Post author:Lee Bullen
Post published:May 22, 2022

Ukrainian soldiers have found ancient ceramic amphoras dating back to the 5th century AD while digging trenches to fight the Russian troops. The 126th separate brigade of the Odessa Defence…

Granaries of the First Intermediate Period (between 2180 and 2050 BC) in the ancient Egyptian city of Kom Ombo. (OAW, Niki Gail/Newsflash)

Archaeologists Discover Well Preserved Storage Silos In Ancient Egyptian Town

Post author:Georgina Jedikovska
Post published:March 31, 2022

Austrian archaeologists have discovered a 4,000-year-old administrative centre with over 30 storage facilities that ancient Egyptians used to stock grain. The team of researchers from the Cairo branch of the…

'Portrait of a Knight' painted by Velazquez that goes up for auction in Madrid. (Newsflash)

Last Ever Velazquez To Go Under Hammer Sells For Staggering EUR 4.27 Million At Auction

Post author:William McGee
Post published:March 10, 2022

A painting by legendary 17th century Spanish artist Diego Velazquez has been sold at auction for a staggering EUR 4.27 million. The remarkably preserved oil painting 'Retrato de caballero' ('Portrait…

Statue of Roman Emperor Publius Aelius Traianus Hadrianus found in Alabanda in Aydin, Turkey

Incredibly Well Preserved 2,000 Year Old Statue Of Roman Emperor Hadrian Unearthed In Turkey

Post author:Peter Barker
Post published:September 25, 2021

A nearly 2,000-year-old statue including the incredibly well-preserved head of the Roman Emperor Hadrian was unearthed by archaeologists in an ancient Turkish city who believe the statue was built just…

An Urartian ruler's tomb in which he was buried with his dog, four horses, cattle and sheep was found during the excavations in the Cavustepe Castle and necropolis area, in Van, Turkey in August 2021.

Scientists Unearth Tomb With Remains Of Ancient Ruler With Four Horses And A Dog

Post author:Peter Barker
Post published:September 16, 2021

Turkish archaeologists have discovered the incredibly well-preserved remains of a nobleman with his four horses and dog near an ancient fortress that dates back over 2,700 years. The discovery of…