Monastic complex frequented by the Buddha at Vaishali Museum

Archaeologists in the northern Indian state of Bihar in the city of Rajgir the site of an archeological exploration have exposed the remains of a fifth-century B.C. brick stupa (domed temple) of on Buddhist texts, some believe relics of the Buddha(ashes, bones, hair, and nail clippings) are buried.

The location of this stupa, one of several built over the Buddha's relics, has long been contested, and another structure has been suggested. The holy in the Atta Katha, a book of tales associated with the Buddha's life, seems to better match the excavated stupa in terms of both location and building materials.

Excavations at Vaishali have exposed a monastic complex frequented by the Buddha. The Archaeological Survey of India found a nunnery with attached latrines in this town, at the request of his foster mother and a female disciple, first permitted an order of nuns. A number of terra-cotta latrine pans and an enormous communal bathing tank, that was dug for the Buddha by monkeys attest the Vaishalian concern for hygiene or more interesting topics related to archaeology, visit archaeology excavations

400-year-old letter revealed the lost language

An archaeologist said: 400-year-old letter have revealed a previously unknown language once spoken by indigenous peoples of northern Peru.

Penned by an unknown Spanish author and lost for four centuries, the tattered piece of paper was pulled from the remains of an ancient Spanish colonial church in 2008. But a team of scientists has only recently exposed the importance of the words written on the flip side of the letter.

The early 17th-century author had translated Spanish numbers uno, dos, tres into a mysterious language never seen by modern scholars.

Quilter said: The newfound native language may have borrowed from Quechua, a language still spoken by indigenous peoples of Peru. Some of the scholars suggest the two languages are in fact the same tongue that had been misidentified as distinct languages by early Spanish scribes.

The letter was found during archaeology excavations of the Magdalena de Cao Viejo church at the El Brujo Archaeological Complex in northern Peru. Quilter also stated that Archaeologists live on other people's misfortunes.

Language Hints at variety of Cultures:

Finding the new language helps to strengthen the rich diversity of cultures found in early colonial Americas, Quilter said.

Every location, from Massachusetts to Peru, it was a confrontation of a much more diverse group of people. In case, colonialists from many parts of Europe were grouped into the Spanish and in the Americas there were many people who spoke different languages and had different customs, he also noted.

"It truly shows how rich and varied that world was."

Archaeological Excavation of a Shang Dynasty City Wall

Archaeological Excavation of a Shang Dynasty City Wall.During the Song Dynasty (960–1279 AD), scholar-bureaucrats and the Chinese gentry became avid antiquarians and collectors of ancient artwork, some claiming to have found Shang Dynasty era bronze vessels with written inscriptions.


Despite this, archeologists of the 19th century knew of written records and historical documentations spanning only as far back as the Zhou Dynasty (1046 BC–256 BC). In 1899, it was found that Chinese pharmacists were selling "dragon bones" marked with curious and archaic characters. These were finally traced back in 1928 to a site near Anyang in the Yellow River valley, modern Henan province, where the National Government's Academia Sinica began an archeological excavation. Work at the site was halted during the Japanese invasion in 1937, but by 1950 a Shang capital had been discovered near Zhengzhou.


At the excavated royal palace of Yinxu, there were large stone pillar bases found along with rammed earth foundations and platforms "as hard as cement" as Fairbank asserts, which originally supported 53 buildings of wooden post-and-beam construction.