12,000 year old feast have been found in a cave in Northern Israel
Palaeolithic funeral feast unearthed in Northern Israel By Katie Alcock Science reporter, BBC News Over 70 tortoise skeletons were found in one of the depressions, many of them with almost intact shells The remains of a huge 12,000 year old feast have been found in a cave in Northern Israel.…
Archeologists Find Gateway to the Viking Empire
Archeologists Find Gateway to the Viking Empire By Matthias Schulz For a century, archeologists have been looking for a gate through a wall built by the Vikings in northern Europe. This summer, it was found. Researchers now believe the extensive barrier was built to protect an important trading route. Their…
Coins found bearing name of Joseph
WND MUCH ABOUT HISTORY Egyptian paper: Coins found bearing name of Joseph Biblical patriarch ID’d in hieroglyphs, depiction of cow linked to pharaoh’s dream Posted: September 26, 2009 11:30 pm Eastern © 2010 WorldNetDaily An image from the Middle East Media Research Institute revealing Egyptian coins tracked to the time…
Technology Under Turkey
By Jennifer Green They are just hints but still, such tantalizing hints of ancient city walls, a basalt gate, and buildings immolated in a mysterious fire thousands of years ago. High-tech methods, known as remote sensing, are “seeing” through the ground at the University of Toronto’s archeological dig in south…
Columbus Claims Ancient Prophecy Led Him?
You probably learned a bit about Christopher Columbus at school, but one documented historical fact that you probably overlooked is that Columbus believed his discovery of the New World was necessary in order to fulfil an ancient prophecy. What exactly did Christopher Columbus mean when, circa 1500 AD,…