1+ day, 22+ hour ago   (41+ words) Castlemaine Mail Castlemaine Society Inc invites community members to the launch of a fascinating new biography on the life of Colonel John Edward Newell Bull by Goldfields Police and Military historian Dr Bob Marmion....

4+ day, 10+ hour ago   (67+ words) sovanews.tv Whether this actually happened or is merely an urban legend meant to entertain, no one knows for sure. Either way, it was inspired by Tim Severin’s expedition to Colchis. Today, we look at how the British explorer and…...

6+ day, 18+ hour ago   (408+ words) China Daily An exhibition of great maritime expeditions If you ask who the greatest navigator of the 18th century was, James Cook is a name not to be overlooked. This British Royal Navy officer made three epic voyages across the Pacific…...

1+ week, 9+ hour ago   (552+ words) The Times of India...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (1306+ words) Miners were working in a drained area on Namibia’s coast when pieces of ancient wood and marked ingots began to surface where only sand and ore should have existed. What initially appeared to be an unexpected obstacle to diamond extraction…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (303+ words) The National Maritime Museum, Greenwich has acquired a rare pocket chronometer – a timekeeper used on ships to determine longitude while navigating at sea – known as ‘K’. It is one of only two surviving pocket chronometers from the Beagle Voyage (1831-1836), the…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (403+ words) They digitally stripped away the forest near Machu Picchu and found roads hidden beneath the vegetation, revealing over 2.5 km of lost routes. More than 2.5 kilometers of previously undocumented roads have been found beneath the thick forest around Machu Picchu. Laser…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (708+ words) The Mandor Wall lies in a difficult-to-access part of the Machu Picchu Archaeological Park. Steep terrain and dense vegetation make conventional archaeological surveys difficult, particularly when structures leave only subtle traces on the ground. LiDAR, short for Light Detection and…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (236+ words) Hidden jungle ruins revealed by laser scanning technology show the immense scale of ancient settlements in South America. Researchers mapped thousands of monumental earthworks hidden beneath the dense Amazon rainforest canopy. This discovery completely rewrites the pre-Columbian demographic history of…...

2+ week, 16+ hour ago   (142+ words) Beneath the forest canopy: monumental Amazonian earthworks revealed through Lidar scanning. (Image courtesy: Pärssinen, M., Kalliola, R., Ranzi, A. et al. Over 20,000 precolonial earthworks in the Southwest Amazonia / Nature) Building on this scale required organized labour and a working knowledge…...