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A discovery of artifacts, recovered from a 2,000-year-old burial mound, shows off a little-known society’s sophistication and deep connections to the Silk Road.
Archaeologists have so far found about 20 vessels, human and animal bones, iron arrowheads, and woven weights at the burial site as well as costume buckles, ceramics and a clip of an Arab silver ...
13 – Discovery of the footprint tracks of an adult and child from more than 10,000 years BP in White Sands National Park, New Mexico, is announced. [94] 20 – More than 80 coffins are reported unearthed in Saqqara, in addition to gilded and wooden statues. [95] November A German Enigma machine is found by divers in Gelting Bay of the Baltic ...
Archaeologists scanning through jungle terrain stumbled on what could have once been an important Maya location. The team discovered a mysterious structure built under a ball court, popular in ...
20 – An Egyptian-Japanese archaeological team has discovered a pair of underground structures near the Great Pyramid of Giza. Using ground-penetrating radar and electrical resistivity tomography, they identified a shallow L-shaped structure measuring 10 meters wide by 15 meters long. [51] [52]
Rock art found in southeastern Venezuela may have come from a previously unknown culture. Researchers believe that the roughly 4,000-year-old art signifies a central dispersion point from which ...
Archaeological excavations have found traces of a vast system of aqueducts attributed to Sennacherib by an inscription on its remains, which Dalley proposes were part of an 80-kilometre (50 mi) series of canals, dams, and aqueducts used to carry water to Nineveh with water-raising screws used to raise it to the upper levels of the gardens. [25]
The archaeologists said the chultún was built from layers of ground coral, less than an inch thick, which formed the surface of the cavern and sat on top of reddish clay. There were also medium ...