2nd tuberculosis outbreak linked to bone grafts in the US (www.livescience.com)
2,000-year-old 'celestial calendar' discovered in ancient Chinese tomb (www.livescience.com)
Archaeologists in China have unearthed a mysterious set of rectangular wooden pieces linked to an ancient astronomical calendar. The artifacts were discovered inside an exceptionally well-preserved 2,000-year-old tomb in the southwest of the country....
10 extraordinary treasures that archaeologists unearthed this year (www.livescience.com)
As long as humans have been minting coins and crafting beautiful jewelry and other stunning collectibles, an equal number of people have been right behind them searching for these precious finds. Here are 10 extraordinary discoveries made in 2023 that prove that the hunt for buried treasure never gets old.
Skull with 'execution-style wounds' suggests woman died due to enslavement or suspected sorcery in colonial Indonesia (www.livescience.com)
Discovery of 'calendar' rock carvings from Ancestral Pueblo in US Southwest surpasses 'wildest expectations' (www.livescience.com)
Temple linked to Hercules and Alexander the Great discovered in ancient megacity in Iraq (www.livescience.com)
Oldest known ship burial discovered in Norway predates Vikings (www.livescience.com)
9,000-year-old double burial with shaman and infant reveals she may have been his 4th-great-grandmother (www.livescience.com)
In 1934, workers in Germany discovered the double burial of a woman placed in a seated position with an infant between her legs. Because of the overabundance of grave goods surrounding the pair, archaeologists concluded that she was likely a shaman who died about 9,000 years ago, during the Mesolithic period. However, her true...
Temple linked to Hercules and Alexander the Great discovered in ancient megacity in Iraq (www.livescience.com)
Archaeologists in Iraq have unearthed twin temples built on top of each other. The newer, Hellenistic temple dates to the fourth century B.C. and may have a link to Alexander the Great....
Possible Arctic graveyard may be northernmost Stone Age cemetery — but there are no human remains to prove it (www.livescience.com)
2,000-year-old coin stash discovered at ancient Buddhist shrine in Pakistan (www.livescience.com)
Nearly 8,000 medieval coins and 7 Bronze Age swords unearthed in Germany (www.livescience.com)
Chiseled obsidian recovered from Neolithic shipwreck near Capri's 'Blue Grotto' (www.livescience.com)
Civil War weapons thrown into river by General Sherman's forces recovered in South Carolina (www.livescience.com)
2,800-year-old ivory carved with sphinx discovered in Turkey (www.livescience.com)
Stone Age Europeans mastered spear-throwers 10,000 years earlier than we thought, study suggests (www.livescience.com)
Stone Age people in Belgium were hunting with spear-throwers more than 30,000 years ago — the earliest known evidence of such a weapon in Europe, a new study suggests....
500-year-old Hebrew note reveals 'lost' earthquake swarm in Italy (www.livescience.com)
Weathered face of 'old man' Neanderthal comes to life in amazing new facial reconstruction (www.livescience.com)
In 1908, a group of Catholic priests discovered what looked like the skeletal remains of a man buried inside a cave in La Chapelle-aux-Saints, a commune in south-central France. The nearly complete skeleton lacked several teeth, earning him the nickname the “old man.”...
'Spectacular' hall, likely used by Nordic Bronze Age royalty, unearthed in Germany (www.livescience.com)
Archaeologists in Germany have discovered the remains of a massive hall that was likely used by royalty roughly 3,000 years ago....
Sacrificial pits filled with 120 horse skeletons found in Bronze Age city in China (www.livescience.com)
Depiction of Trojan War hero Ajax found in 1,800-year-old submerged building in Greece (www.livescience.com)
Stash of 'eye-catching' Bronze Age jewelry discovered by metal detectorist in Swiss carrot field (www.livescience.com)
'Exceedingly rare' horse bridle discovered in melting ice in Norway could date to Viking Age (www.livescience.com)
'Exceptional' 1,800-year-old sarcophagus unearthed in France held woman of 'special status' (www.livescience.com)
Archaeologists excavating an ancient necropolis in northeastern France have discovered an unlooted, unopened Roman-era sarcophagus dating to the second century A.D. The tomb likely holds the remains of an elite woman, archaeologists said.
'I am horrified': Archaeologists are fuming over ancient human relative remains sent to edge of space (www.livescience.com)
Fragmentary remains of two ancient human relatives, Australopithecus sediba and Homo naledi, were carried aboard a Virgin Galactic flight on Sept. 8. Departing from Spaceport America in New Mexico, the fossils, carried by South African-born billionaire Timothy Nash in a cigar-shaped tube, were rocketed to the edge of space....
