Great archaeologists find gold ornaments at Sozopol

A massive gold ring and a gold leaf from a royal crown are the latest archaeological discoveries in the Bulgarian Black Sea town of Sozopol, site of the ancient town of Apollonia.

The archaeology discoveries have been made by Bulgarian archaeologists Dimitar Nedev and Tsonya Drajeva during archaeology excavations funded by the National History Museum. The precious finds were located in front of the ancient fortress gate of Sozopol.

The ring is has a semiprecious stone and most likely dates from the Roman era, the 1st – 4th century AC, according to the Director of the National History Museum, Bozhidar Dimitrov.

The gold crown leaf is from the 4th – 3rd century BC. This was the time when Sozopol was called Apollonia, and was an independent State, but its democratic form of government excludes the possibility that its rulers and leaders adorned themselves with gold crowns.

As is known in the Greek city-states produced gold crowns for the Thracian Kings with whom they had mutually beneficial political and economic contacts. Thus, this could be the most likely explanation for the find, according to experts.

Sozopol is one of Bulgaria's sites with the richest historical heritage and archaeological treasures. It was selected the top miracle of Bulgaria among a list of 10 such sites. Recently, French archaeologists arrived there to work jointly with local counterparts on fresh discoveries.

New Discoveries in Chinese Archaeology

Features some of the most prolific archeological sites in China, including the Tomb of Qin Shi Huangdi, the First Emperor of the Qin Dynasty (221-206 BCE) and Sanxingdui.

Otzi the Iceman

Dr. Loy found four DNA samples from Otzi's blood. The theory talks a little prequel to his death, a sequence of events that could have happened before Otzi's struggling death. DNA samples done on Otzi man revealed blood traces of four other people,

* One from his knife
* Two from the same arrowhead
* And a fourth from his coat

The events are understood as Otziwas able to kill two of his rivals with the same arrowhead pulling it successfully out each time. The blood on his coat, should have been his wounded pal whom he had been carrying in this fuss.

Latest studies reveal the cause of his death was not just by blood loss due to the arrow head, but he had received a hard blow from the back of his head. The blow could have been due to a fall or someone hit him hard from behind.

The Life and Death of the Iceman

A discovery a man frozen in the Northern Italian Alps from 5000 years ago give researcher a rare view of the past. Steven Sciancalepore's research update.


Otzi the Iceman is well naturally preserved mummy of a man. The man who was been captured in Ice was believed to be over 53 centuries old (3300 BC).


The mummy was found by Helmut and Erika Simon a German couple who were hiking the Oetzal Alps on 19th Sep'91. At first the couple thought that it was some mountain climber's mummified remains, but they finally decided to take a photo and report the incident to a nearby lodge caretaker, Markus Pirpamer. He in turn informed the respective authorities.

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Archaeology information discovered Mars, NASA

Keith Morgan has been an Electronics Technician with ABC News in Washington DC since 1982. He has a BA in Communications from Howard University with a minor in Computer Science. Keith has had his own UFO sightings that started in High School. And he has also made predictions based on Nostradamus' quatrains that have come to pass. One being the World Trade Centers coming down, which he made in 1993 and then repeated 3 weeks before the event took place.

Keith shared theories about UFOs, Mars and alternative energy, as well as his experiences of media cover-ups of these topics. "There are real artifacts sitting on the surface of Mars," as proven out by the mathematics he said of the Cydonia region, known for its "Face on Mars." He believes these monuments were left by the Annunaki, as spelled out by Sitchin in The Lost Book of Enki. They were using Mars as a way station to transport the gold they had mined on Earth, he noted.


Among the energy technologies Morgan mentioned was the Reed Magnetic Motor, a 7 ft. tall wooden device with fly wheels that creates enough power to run household appliances. Typically, the network won't run stories on these types of experimental devices, he said, though Nightline did once do a show on the Patterson Power Cell. He explained that the subjects of UFOs and free energy are linked in that they both point towards a new kind of physics, that might for instance, foster anti-gravity devices.
Morgan also discussed his ability to make predictions based on Nostradamus' quatrains, and suggested that between now and 2012 we are going to begin having more open interactions with ETs. The originator of theories about hyperdimensional physics which Morgan finds valid, Richard C. Hoagland joined him for the first hour of the conversation, and the two, who have been friends for many years, shared reminiscences about Mars and the media.

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Archaeology : The Bowl Hole cemetery

Excavation of a final phase Anglo Saxon cemetery at Bamburgh.

The study of humankind through its material culture, specializing in the period of the European Middle Ages. At its broadest, the period stretches from the 5th to the 16th century CE and refers to post-Roman but pre modern remains. The period covers the commotion caused by the fall of the Medival archaeology Roman Empire and cultures such as the Vikings, Saxons and Franks.
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Tollund Man

Time-lapse photo-retouching to the nth degree. Nothing in this picture was brought in, it was literally retouched, and retouched, and retouched, until the final result came about.


Photoshop 7, mouse, standard brushes. Very little painting was done, mostly just a basic color pass and eyebrows, everything else is clone stampery.


My original intention was to record the screen for the whole thing, and I did, but the first five (of six) full-length, pre-sped up videos don't work. I'd love to re-make the video with all time-lapse recording, so if anyone knows why these Camstudio AVI files are killing me, please let me know!

Tollund Man

The Tollund man lived during the late 5th century BC and/or early 4th century BC, about 2,400 years ago. He was buried in a peat bog on the Jutland Peninsula in Denmark, a find known as a bog body. He is remarkable for the fact that his body was so well preserved that he had seemed to have recently died. [Read Full Articles....]

Wonderful discoveries. The Portus Project revealed.

For the past ten years The Portus Project has undertaken major archaeological investigations at the ancient port of Rome.

Nearly 2,000 years ago Portus was an immense complex of graneries, warehouses, military encampments and administration blocks, with a huge palace at its centre. The study of this site has led to many discoveries which have much to tell us about life in ancient Rome.

The project is one of the first major excavations to use cutting edge technology on a regular basis. And this new technology has been vital in solving a mystery that has puzzled archaeologists for many years.

The Portus Project is an international team led by archaeologists from the University of Southampton and is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Project partners include, The British School at Rome, The University of Cambridge, and the Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeological di Ostia.

Lindow bog man at the British Museum

A brief film of the remarkable bog man of Lindow, on display at the British Museum.


The Lindow Man is an example of a Celtic human sacrifice discovered in a bog near Manchester in 1984 by peat-cutters, a find known as a bog body. The body is now on display in The British Museum. The body's legs and pelvis were missing, leaving the chest, head and arms.

The book, The Life and Death of a Druid Prince, by Anne Ross and Don Robins (Simon & Schuster, New York, 1989, ISBN 0671741225), is an excellent document for the historical reasoning, and some archaeological reasoning, for the ideas of Lindow Man's social status, and suspected reasons for death. While not an exhaustive overview of the archaeological procedures used in the uncovering of the peat bog body, authors Anne Ross and Don Robins attempt to provide insights to the Celtic and Druidic worlds of Lindow Man's age.
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Walking With Dinosaurs: The Smell of Prey

An insight into the hunting habits of one of the most successful breeds of Dinosaur.

The Stonehenge Landscape Archaeology

The Stonehenge Landscape

This short film shows the landscape around Stonehenge as recorded by LIDAR survey. Millions of measurements were taken across the landscape, and here they have been turned into a 'solid' computer model to show how well the archaeology is recorded by this method.


Prehistoric burial mounds (barrows), the great Cursus (a 2km Neolithic monument), the Bronze Age Avenue which links Stonehenge to the River Avon, and other henges such as Woodhenge and Durrington Walls are all clearly visible.


It is possibly the first time that this data has been shown in this way, at 1:1 with no reduction of data quality to produce a perspective animation.

Landscape Archaeology

Landscape archaeology refers to a method of studying past people and their material culture in the context of the wider environment they inhabited and interacted with.The landscape may be large, such as a wide marshy river delta or small, like a back garden. It is often employed in cultural resources management to recognize exposed sites. Landscape archeology addresses the difficult issues of the behavior that people intentionally and deliberately shaped the land around them.


The inquiry of what exactly constitutes a site has been discussed at length by generations of archaeologists. By adopting a landscape archaeology viewpoint, the concept of a discrete 'site' becomes less important. Areas of examination are not restricted to the boundaries of an excavation but can instead stretch for many miles.
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Neanderthal vs woolly rhino

Who would you pick to win in a primeval fight?

Watch more Walking With Beasts from BBC Worldwide. Watch that video and identify it.
Neanderthal was a species of genus Homo (Homo neanderthalensis) that inhabited Europe and parts of western Asia during the last ice age. They seem to have been well adapted to extreme cold, but appear to have had difficulty adapting to climatic changes near the end of the ice age.

Neanderthals first appeared about 230,000 years ago and then disappeared about 28,000 years ago. Their brains were roughly 10 percent larger than those of modern humans. However, though anatomically similar, the brain's increased size can be negated due to their body:brain ratio. On average, Neanderthals stood about 1.65m tall (just under 5' 6") and were very well-muscled, comparable to modern weight-lifters.

Neanderthal Man

Neanderthal was a species of genus Homo (Homo neanderthalensis) that inhabited Europe and parts of western Asia during the last ice age. They seem to have been well adapted to extreme cold, but appear to have had difficulty adapting to climatic changes near the end of the ice age.


The first Neanderthal fossils were found in 1856 near Düsseldorf in the Neanderthal, Germany. Their characteristic style of stone tools is called the Mousterian Culture (middle paleolithic), after another prominent archaeological site.


Scientists now believe that Neanderthal Man was not related to Homo Sapien.

Tollund Man Peat Bogs

Tollund Man Peat Bogs as described in The Doomsday Key at the Silkeborg Museum located in Silkeborg, Denmark.

The Tollund man lived during the late 5th century BC and/or early 4th century BC, about 2,400 years ago. He was buried in a peat bog on the Jutland Peninsula in Denmark, a find known as a bog body. He is remarkable for the fact that his body was so well preserved that he had seemed to have recently died.


On May 6, 1950 Hojgard brothers from the small village of Tollund were cutting peat for their tile stove and the kitchen range in the Bjaeldskovdal peat bog, 10 km west of Silkeborg, Denmark. As the two brothers worked, they suddenly saw in the peat layer a face so fresh that they could only suppose that they had stumbled on a recent murder. They immediately notified the police at Silkeborg. [Read full article]

'Peking Man' older than thought; somehow adapted to cold

A new dating method has found that "Peking Man" is around 200,000 years older than previously thought, suggesting he somehow adapted to the cold of a mild glacial period.

Peking Man (sometimes now called Beijing Man), also called Sinanthropus pekinensis (currently Homo erectus pekinensis), is an example of Homo erectus. The remains were first discovered in 1923-27 during excavations at Zhoukoudian (Choukoutien) near Beijing (Peking), China.

Excavations had begun at Zhoukoudian in 1921, investigating a number of caves in the limestone there. The remains of around fifteen prehistoric individuals were uncovered, with the first fragments being exposed in 1923. The finds have been dated from roughly 250,000-400,000 years ago. [Read More..]

The First American's Kennewick Man

The first Americans were not Indians who migrated to the Americas across a land bridge from Asia, the first Americans were the Solutrians, a European people who migrated to the Americas roughly 25,000 years ago.

Kennewick Man is the name for the remains of a prehistoric man found on a bank of the Columbia River near Kennewick, Washington, on July 28, 1996. The discovery of Kennewick Man was accidental; a pair of spectators at the yearly hydroplane races found his skull while swimming in the Columbia River.

The Kennewick Man news story is one of the most significant archaeology stories of contemporary times.
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