Remains of an ancient synagogue from the Roman-Byzantine era have been revealed in excavations carried out in the Arbel National Park in the Galilee under the auspices of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The synagogue ruins are located at the foot of the Mt. Nitai cliffs overlooking the Sea of Galilee, amidst the remains of a large Jewish village from the Roman-Byzantine period. picked by AutumnLotus 10 months ago tags remains ancient synagogue mosaic floor galilee |
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Builders clearing land for a housing project in Colombia have uncovered an ancient burial site containing nearly a thousand tombs linked to two little-known civilizations. picked by AutumnLotus 5 months ago 0 comments edit related share world |
Hulbert said the remains of mammoths and other large, ancient creatures have been found along the east coast of Florida through Miami-Dade County and in Collier County on the west coast. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago 0 comments edit related share science |
Cremated human remains were found Tuesday inside a package placed in a mail collection box. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago 1 comments edit related share weird |
A group of paleontologists has discovered the tusks and petrified remains of a mastodon, a large mammoth-like mammal that lived some three million years ago. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago 0 comments edit related share plime.com |
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Workers digging a new Jerusalem tram line have stumbled upon the remains of an ancient Jewish city from the first century AD under what is now a Palestinian suburb of the Holy City. picked by shredtone 2 years ago 2 comments edit related share world |
Japanese and U.S. officials have found four mass graves that they believe hold the remains of 500 World War II soldiers, nearly 65 years after a bloody battle on the remote Alaskan island of Attu. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago 0 comments edit related share plime.com |
European have been discovered in a cave in Spain, pushing back the beginnings of human occupation of the Continent by up to 400,000 years. The jawbone and teeth found in the Atapuerca hills, near Burgos, have been reliably dated to between 1.1 million and 1.2 million years ago, and probably come from a female who was among the first ancient humans to inhabit Europe. picked by AutumnLotus 6 months ago 0 comments edit related share science |
The remains of three babies were found in the basement of an Austrian house undergoing renovation picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago 0 comments edit related share plime.com |
STORED in a sky-lit reading room in Naples are the charred remains of the only library to survive from antiquity. The ancient world's other great book collections -- at Athens, Alexandria and Rome -- all perished in the chaos of the centuries. But the library of the Villa of the Papyri was conserved, paradoxically, by an act of destruction. picked by BernardBlack 2 months ago 3 comments edit related share science |
Under threat from Romans ransacking Jerusalem 2,000 years ago, many of the city's Jewish residents crowded into an underground drainage channel to hide and later flee the chaos through Jerusalem's southern end unnoticed. The ancient tunnel was recently discovered buried beneath rubble, a monument to one of the great dramatic scenes of the destruction of the Second Temple in the year 70 A.D. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago 1 comments edit related share plime.com |
Residents of Pompeii ate their meals on the run, just like many Americans do today, according to a new archaeological study of how households functioned in the ancient Roman city buried by volcanic ash. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago 0 comments edit related share plime.com |
Human remains that appear to be from World Trade Center victims were found by utility workers in a manhole at the northern edge of the site, a Port Authority official said Thursday. picked by robfouryqr 2 years ago 2 comments edit related share politics |
Mosses once grew and insects crawled in what are now barren valleys in Antarctica, according to scientists who have recovered remains of life from that frozen continent. picked by AutumnLotus 2 months ago 2 comments edit related share science |
New details of a buried ancient Roman town in England are being revealed for the first time using the latest technology. The newly uncovered features include street grids, clustered public buildings such as temples and baths, the town’s water supply system and possibly a large theater. picked by AutumnLotus 10 months ago 3 comments edit related share plime.com |
New York police said a Brooklyn senior center and synagogue was vandalized with a spray-painted swastika and an anti-Semitic message. picked by muppet 9 months ago 0 comments edit related share plime.com |
There is a great deal of archeological evidence that the history of life on earth might be far different than what current geological and anthropological texts tell us. picked by Mershaullk 2 years ago 13 comments edit related share world |
The grave of Hungary's last communist ruler, Janos Kadar, was prised open on Wednesday and his remains and his wife's urn were thought to have been stolen, Budapest police said. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago 0 comments edit related share plime.com |
Ancient Rome has been brought back to life through a unique digital reconstruction project, said to be the world's biggest computer simulation. picked by MattSaw 1 year ago 3 comments edit related share technology |
A student has identified a new species of flying grasshopper which lived 115m years ago. Sam Heads, a PhD research student, was examining fossils from a German museum labelled as 'stick insects'. But he knew immediately he was in fact looking at an ancient ancestor of the modern grasshopper. picked by AutumnLotus 7 months ago 0 comments edit related share science |