Month: January 2025
7,000-Year-Old Bone Arrowheads Held a Complex Poison, Study Finds
A new study into a 7,000 year old bovid femur found in Kruger Cave, South Africa, has shed lights on the secrets of Neolithic hunting in the region. The femur had three…
Ancient Underground City of Water Found Beneath Iran’s Abarkuh
Researchers investigating under a collection of five historic houses in the city of Abarkuh in Iran’s Yazd province have found something long suspected. An underground city stretches out below the modern one,…
Romania’s National Treasures Stolen in Dutch Museum Robbery
In the early hours of the morning on Saturday, 25 January, thieves broke into a Dutch museum in a daring robbery, Four ancient gold artifacts were stolen from the Drents Museum in…
A Once in a Century Find: Private Roman Bath Complex Unearthed in Pompeii
Near the center of the Roman city of Pompeii lies a large area known to archaeologists and researchers as Regio IX. This area is largely unexcavated, overlooked in favour of the grander…
The SS Bessemer: the Worst Idea in Nautical History?
This is a story about an inventor and his invention. It is the story of striving to create something new and innovation in problem solving. It is also, perhaps more than anything,…
New Roman Boundary Stone Discovery Writes of Lost Settlements
A new paper tells of a discovery in northern Galilee: a Roman boundary stone dated to the Roman 3rd century, and a surprise for researchers. The boundary stone, used to denote territorial…