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It protects the wrecks of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, the two ships of the last expedition of Sir John Franklin, lost in the 1840s during their search for the Northwest Passage and then re-discovered in 2014 and 2016. The site is jointly managed by Parks Canada and the local Inuit. Public access to the site is not permitted.
Al-Maghtas (Arabic: المغطس, al-Maġṭas, meaning ' baptism ' or ' immersion '), officially known as Baptism Site "Bethany Beyond the Jordan", is an archaeological World Heritage Site in Jordan, on the east bank of the Jordan River, reputed to be the location of the Baptism of Jesus by John the Baptist and venerated as such since at least the Byzantine period. [1]
In 1993, three bodies were found at site NgLj-3 near Erebus Bay. The remains had originally been found by McClintock's expedition in 1859, and were rediscovered and buried by Schwatka two decades later. In 2013, a team led by Stenton had the remains exhumed for DNA testing and forensic facial reconstruction.
Each mound within the Mound City Group covered the remains of a charnel house. After the Hopewell people cremated the dead, they burned the charnel house. They constructed a mound over the remains. They also placed artifacts, such as copper figures, mica, arrowheads, shells and pipes in the mounds. Mount Vernon Site: Posey County, Indiana: 1 to ...
25 of the holes were excavated by Hawley in 1920 and seven more in 1924. In 1950 Stuart Piggott and Richard Atkinson dug two more Aubrey Holes which brought the total excavated to 35, including one that Richard Colt Hoare may have encountered whilst digging beneath the fallen Slaughter Stone (so named from its reddish coloration) in the early nineteenth century.
A documentary team discovered human remains on Mount Everest apparently belonging to a man who went missing while trying to summit the peak 100 years ago, National Geographic magazine reported Friday.
John C. Calhoun [57] March 31, 1850: St. Phillips Churchyard Charleston: South Carolina: 8 Martin Van Buren [58] July 24, 1862: Kinderhook Reformed Church Cemetery Kinderhook: New York: 9 Richard M. Johnson [59] November 19, 1850: Frankfort Cemetery: Frankfort: Kentucky: 10 John Tyler [60] January 18, 1862: Hollywood Cemetery: Richmond ...
Those remains appeared to be from the 59-year-old woman, police said. Additional remains found on 5 March in nearby West Babylon and in a state park were from the same two people, police said.