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Oman’s Ministry of Heritage and Tourism has revealed information about what has been discovered at Dahwa, a complex of five early Bronze Age sites on the west coast of the Arabian Peninsula related to the Umm al-Nar culture. The archeological finds include blueprints for buildings, industrial structures, and silver jewelry that reveal fresh information about ancient trade. The archaeological team, led by Nasser Al-Jahouri and Khaled Douglas from the nearby Sultan Qaboos University’s Department of Archeology and working with Kimberly Williams from Temple University in the United States, has discovered new artifacts that are all from the Umm al-Nar heyday, roughly 2600 to 2000 B.C.E. “These sites represent the oldest permanent settlements in the north of the Sultanate of Oman,” Al-Jahouri said in a statement. Another significant Umm al-Nar settlement and cemetery, 300 kilometers west in Abu Dhabi, became a UNESCO site in 2012. Al-Jahouri originally disc...

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On November 4, 1918, British archaeologist Howard Carter discovered King Tutankhamun’s tomb in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt, close to Luxor. After a century since that fabled discovery, new discoveries are still being made in the royal tombs of ancient Egypt. Coffins, papyri, and other artifacts have recently been discovered by archaeologists at the Saqqara necropolis site in Giza. These relics were discovered 65 feet below Egypt’s famous pyramids in a network of connected coffin rooms. According to prominent Egyptologist and former Minister of State for Antiquities Affairs Zahi Hawass, the most recent discoveries are connected to King Teti as well as King Tut’s generals and advisors. Sarcophagus found in Saqqara, Giza around January 17, 2021 from the funerary temple of ancient Egyptian Queen Neit, wife and daughter of King Teti. Photo by Xinhua/Ahmed Gomaa via Getty Images Mummies discovered near Teti’s tomb in Saqqara will be excav...

The marine Animals of the Devonian period, over 100 million years before the first dinosaurs, tended to be small and meek, but Dunkleosteus was the exception that proved the rule. This huge (about 30 feet long and three or four tons), armor-covered prehistoric fish was probably the large st vertebrate of its day, and almost certainly the large st fish of the Devonian seas. Reconstructions can be a bit fanciful, but Dunkleosteus likely resembled a large , underwater tank, with a thick body, bulging head, and massive, toothless jaws. Dunkleosteus wouldn’t have had to be a particularly good swimmer, since its bony armor would have been sufficient defense against the smaller, predatory sharks and fish of its briny habitat, such as Cladoselache. Because so many fossils of Dunkleosteus have been discovered, paleontologists know a good deal about the behavior and physiology of this prehistoric fish. For example, there’s some evidence that individuals of this genus occ...

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Dυriпg the Upper Paleolithic era, a mυlticellυlar orgaпism was frozeп almost the time iп History wheп hυmaпs first set foot iпto North America. Aboυt 24,000 years later, it has beeп foυпd alive after sleepiпg for milleппia. (FILES) In this file photo taken on April 12, 2019 Melting permafrost tundra at the town of Quinhagak on the Yukon Delta in Alaska. – As far back as he can remember, Willard Church Jr. has gone out ice fishing well into the month of April, chopping holes that were easily four feet deep into the Kanektok River near his home. But the waterway that runs along the village of Quinhagak, in southwest Alaska, barely freezes now, a testament to the warming temperatures wreaking havoc on the state’s indigenous people and their subsistence way of life This tυrпed oυt to be a very hυge discovery aпd might have chaпged the theory of how loпg orgaпisms aпd perhaps hυmaпs caп be preserved for geпeratioпs. Bdelloid rotifer – a freshwater creatυ...

The Abusir necropolis, a location several kilometers north of Saqqara, features a collection of sizable shaft tombs belonging to the late 26th dynasty (664-525 BC) and early 27th century BC. For more than three decades, the Czech Institute of Egyptology has been conducting excavations there (525-404 BC). At this location, the Archaeology team under the direction of Miroslav Bárta has just uncovered a significant discovery: a nearly undamaged deposit of embalming supplies. Experts estimate that the “cache” is the largest discovery of its sort in Egypt and consists of a total of 370 large ceramic storage jars and a few smaller containers. Multitude of vessels According to Bárta, “Abusir’s shaft tombs played an essential function as a form of cultural expression of the Egyptian aristocracy in that late era.” They were constructed similarly to the famed burial of Pharaoh Djoser beneath his stepped pyramid. The vast hole, which was 5.3 by 5.3 m...

Michigan was digging into a field , for the purpose of drainage, when, about eight feet deep, they encountered a substance that looked like wood. As the Detroit Free Press reports, the farmers soon realized they were hitting not wood, but bone. Is it a ᴅιɴosᴀuʀ bone? They called the University of Michigan, who relayed the news to Daniel Fisher, at the school’s Museum of Paleontology. Upon arriving at the scene, Fisher determined that it wasn’t the ᴅιɴosᴀuʀ the farmers had found – it was a Mammoth. Fisher and his colleague had just one day to uncover the Mammoth’s skeleton, because the farmers needed to get on with their work, according to the Free Press. They were able to find a head, tusks, ribs and some vertebrae; the missing pieces may have been taken away by humans who possibly κιʟʟᴇᴅ the creature for food. There have been 30 or so other Mammoth found in the state, the Free Press reports; this one, Fisher told the paper, may be a Jeffersonian Mammoth —a hybrid tha...

A large number of human skulls were discovered during an excavation in Sayre, Bradfort County, Pennsylvania in 1880. The discovered skulls were interesting in a certain manner concerned with anatomy. Interestingly, the skulls consisted of horns right above two inches from the eyebrows. The most fascinating part is that the average height of the beings to whom the ancient giant skulls with horns belonged would have been around seven feet. An excavation was conducted in the 1880s by a group of scientists in the Northeastern part of the state near the New York state line. The team consisted of a historian who belonged to Pennsylvania state, two professors, and a member of the Presbyterian church’s hierarchy they had worked their way to a town called Sayre, and they became interested in a ground that appeared to be burial mounds. The group was headed by Dr. P.G. Donehoo of the church along with the professors A.B. Skinner and W.K. Moorehead of the American Investigation Muse...

A mysterious stone structure, which was discovered accidentally in 2003 , and known as Adam’s Calendar , is hidden in the hills and only a few people know about it. It is believed that the structure is the oldest man-made edifice. It was discovered by a South African pilot, Johan Heine . While he was flying over the Mpumalanga region (a hilly territory in the east of South Africa), his plane got out of control. In order to save his plane, he opted for an emergency landing, but unfortunately, he crashed into a mountainside. After the crash, Johan exited the plane, and miraculously, he was fine and unhurt. Outside, he came across three monolithic dolomite stones , which were massive and weighed around 5 metric tonnes (5.5 US tons). These stones were protruding out of the earth, and next to them was a big circle made out of stones. It was believed that if there had been no crash, then the site would have been undiscovered because the site is located in an exceedingly isolated a...

There is no doubt that the Anthropomorphic Reptilians were worshiped by ancient civilizations. Reptiles have a long history of being revered in spirituality, and there is ample evidence in the form of sculptures, legends, and folklore to back this up. Serpent gods are extensively debated from Asia to America, with roughly 4% of Americans believing in the reptilian folklore. In Los Angeles , a long-running urban legend has it that a long-extinct race of highly advanced reptilian people previously constructed a vast under ground network beneath the city’s core. When the Los Angeles Times released a detailed map of the city’s under ground maze, it stoked the fire even more. In 1933, a mining engineer named George Warren Shufelt inspected an underground area in search of deposits of oil, gold, and other valuable materials, using a scanner that allowed him to take a reading of the terrain and find formations or sources of some mineral. During his search, he was...

The mummified remains of a prominent man who was remembered for having commissioned artistic performances that were performed in Greek have been retrieved from a tomb in Pompeii. The burial is remarkable in several ways, not least for how well it helped preserve the man’s remains, which include hair and part of an ear. Pompeii’s Latest Mummified Remains Tell Us More! Although Pompeii is famous as a site frozen in time due to the volcanic eruption of nearby Vesuvius that occurred in 79 AD, a great deal of the organic matter was incinerated by the great heat of the lava that engulfed the city. After that all that was left were the bare bones of the victims and evidence of their ultimate flight and plight . One recently discovered victim’s remains included his brain, which was vitrified by the extreme heat. However, this latest find, shared in a report by Pompeii Site press release , offers two new types of evidence to help describe life in this fascinating locatio...

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Iп aп υпlikely locatioп iп the archaeological site of Paleпqυe – Mexico, the пoble aпd mysterioυs “Maya qυeeп” rests iп a treasυre-filled tomb. The fiпd comes from the Chiapas Braпch of the Natioпal Iпstitυte of Αпthropology aпd History of Mexico (INΑH). Iп the process of searchiпg for a toilet located iп the Palaпqυe archaeological complex iп the soυth of the coυпtry, scieпtists accideпtally opeпed a grave at least a few hυпdred years old, located 1.8 m below the groυпd soil. Α scieпtist пext to the grave of “Qυeeп Maya” has jυst beeп foυпd. Αccordiпg to Αпcieпt Origiпs, the age isп’t the oпly thiпg that makes the tomb special, it’s the people iпside. It aпd a womaп are traditioпally laid oп their side iп Mayaп graves, sυrroυпded by пυmeroυs bυrial parapherпalia of jade aпd precioυs stoпes. More specifically, the womaп υsed to have her teeth made – of coυrse, пot with porcelaiп eпamel like moderп people, bυt her teeth were covered aпd corrected with someth...