In England, Archaeologists found a mysterious purple lump and it turns out that this was at one time worth more than gold. The lump was actually a very rare purple dye that was used in ancient ...
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A dig on the grounds of the Carlisle Cricket Club in the U.K. has turned up a mysterious lump of a substance that researchers have identified as the pigment Tyrian purple. Their latest ...
An enigmatic L-shaped structure found underground near the pyramids at Giza may be an entrance to a mysterious deeper feature below it. Using remote sensing techniques, archaeologists in Egypt ...
We thought we broadly understood how planets and stars form. But the discovery of dozens of pairs of young planets in a nearby nebula threatens to turn that on its head. They are worlds that ...
Archaeologists excavated a 400-year-old site in Montreuil-sur-Mer and uncovered pottery artifacts still sitting in the oven, photos show. Photo from F. Auduit and Inrap A collection of pots sat in ...
The Kangju people lived in Central Asia (southern Kazakhstan) for nearly a millennia, but experts know very little about them. A new discovery of artifacts, recovered from a 2,000-year-old burial ...
A collection of pots sat in a brick oven in northern France, but these weren’t school art projects. These 400-year-old artifacts were buried several feet below the ground and forgotten — until ...