1+ hour, 41+ min ago  (402+ words) A builder believes he was the first person to enter the well in hundreds of years It's not every day you come across a piece of medieval ruins that serve as a reminder of British history. While it's common for…...

6+ day, 17+ min ago  (1500+ words) Between the 14th and 15th centuries, a wave of Greek scholars left their beleaguered homeland in the Byzantine Empire for the Italian Peninsula, where their work would play an important role in the flowering of the Renaissance. The Renaissance, which literally means…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago  (164+ words) "Our data provide the first evidence that Neanderthals also hunted and processed turtles north of the Alps, beyond the Mediterranean region," said Gaudzinski-Windheuser. Painting of a straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) during the early temperate period of the Eemian interglacial, the…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago  (1204+ words) This Wednesday, we mark the Seventh Day of Passover, commemorating one of the most dramatic moments in the biblical story of our people " the crossing of the Red Sea. In synagogues around the world, congregations rise to recite Shirat Ha'yam,…...

1+ day, 56+ min ago  (698+ words) Dallas journalist Olive Talley produced an award-winning documentary about the Gault Site near Florence, regarded as the most important archaeological site in the state of Texas. FLORENCE " Olive Talley has won numerous awards during her 50-year journalism career, including nominated…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago  (357+ words) The Alamo's archaeology staff recently unearthed a cannonball they say was likely used by the Mexican Army during the siege that culminated'in the Battle of the Alamo. They found the four-pound, fully-intact cannonball about three feet below ground outside the…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (391+ words) "There is a deep history of dice, games of chance and gambling in Native America," Robert Madden, an archaeologist at Colorado State University, told Live Science. "This precedes any evidence we have of dice in the Old World by 6, 000 years....

5+ day, 23+ hour ago  (862+ words) Mohenjo-daro, one of the most prominent and sophisticated urban centers of the ancient world, has been revealed to be significantly older than previously believed. Recent archaeological excavations. .. New Dating Pushes Ancient Mohenjo-daro Origins Back Centuries Mohenjo-daro, one of the most…...

9+ hour, 41+ min ago  (774+ words) Before Huntingdon was a county, there was an original monument known as the Standing Stone, which went missing in the 1760s and was never returned. "It's one of the mysteries of Huntingdon," said Margaret Skrivseth, executive director of Huntingdon County Historical…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (902+ words) The notorious pirate, Barbarossa, who eventually went on to be an admiral in the Ottoman Navy, was surprisingly half Greek. As a pirate, he was extremely successful, and his many victories for the Ottomans in the 16th century helped them secure…...