Topic: United States

An international team of researchers said Monday they have found the first evidence that spotted horses, often seen depicted in cave paintings, actually existed tens of thousands of years ago.That means ancient artists were drawing what they saw around them, and were ...

U.S. researchers raise cannon from Blackbeard's ship

WILMINGTON, North Carolina (Reuters) - Archeologists raised another cannon on Wednesday from the sunken wreck of pirate Blackbeard's legendary ship off the coast of North Carolina.The eight-foot (2.4-meter) cannon, which had rested at the bottom of Beaufort Inlet since the ship Queen ...

Prehistoric clay disks found in northwestern Alaska

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Four decorated clay disks have been discovered at a prehistoric site in Alaska, apparently the first artifacts of their type discovered in the state, the University of Alaska Museum of the North said.The disks were found during a ...

U.S. returns recovered artifacts taken from Iraq

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An ancient bead necklace, terra cotta tablets from ancient Babylonia depicting Ishtar, the goddess of love and war, and posters of deposed leader Saddam Hussein were among artifacts that U.S. officials returned to the Iraqi government on Thursday.The repatriation ...

NASA satellite 'helps find 17 Egypt pyramids'

Archaeologists have uncovered as many as 17 buried pyramids in Egypt with the help of NASA satellite imagery, according to a documentary to be aired by the BBC on Monday.Led by US researcher Sarah Parcak at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, ...

North Carolina team to pull up pirate ship's anchor

WILMINGTON, North Carolina (Reuters) - North Carolina archeologists will attempt to retrieve an anchor this week from the wreckage of the notorious pirate ship Queen Anne's Revenge -- just as its resurrected on the big screen in the new movie release of ...

Man sanctioned for defacing 1,000-year-old Native carving

PHOENIX (Reuters) - A North Carolina man was sentenced to 60 months probation by a federal judge for scrawling his name on an Arizona carving that is at least 1,000 years-old, U.S. authorities said on Tuesday.U.S. District Judge Neil Wake also ordered ...
Scientists excavating a creek bed in Texas found tools and other artifacts dating back 15,500 years, making it the oldest settlement site ever found in North America, a study reported Thursday.The objects unearthed at an archaeological dig in the Buttermilk Creek complex ...

Victorian smokers had rotten teeth to match lungs

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Smoking was as bad for the Victorians as it is for anyone today, but back in those days it seems it did far more damage to their teeth. In the mid-19th century, prior to the invention of the ...
Relics of early seafaring life discovered in California support theories that human migration to the Americans occurred thousands of years earlier than previously thought.The 12,200 to 11,400 year old objects -- which include scores of stemmed projectile points and crescents believe to ...
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