Kathy Hobbs: The Teenager Who Predicted Her Own Murder
From the time she was eight years old, Kathy Hobbs lived under the shadow of… The post Kathy Hobbs: The Teenager Who Predicted Her Own Murder appeared first on Historic Mysteries.
Category: Ancient Engineering
3,800-Year-Old Collection of Figurines Discovered in Peru
LIMA, PERU—Andina News Agency reports that excavations conducted by a team led by archaeologist Ruth Shady Solís of the National University of San Marcos at the main public structure in Peñico, which is located on the Pacific coast of Peru within the Ministry of Culture’s Caral Archaeological Zone, have uncovered a ritual offering linked to…
Ichthyosaur Fossil Found in Roman Britain Pit
COLCHESTER, ENGLAND—Phys.org reports that a 100 million-year-old marine reptile fossil was found in a pit, along with the possible remains of a cat; a horse tooth; pottery; and a ligula, a Roman spoon used to retrieve perfumes or medicines from long-necked bottles. The Roman artifacts have been dated to the second century A.D. “In several…
Modern Humans and Neanderthals May Have Shared Culture
Archaeologists excavate in Turkey's Üçağızlı II Cave KYOTO, JAPAN—Modern humans and Neanderthals may have shared a common culture over a period of some 20,000 years, Live Science reports. An international team of researchers excavated Üçağizlı II Cave in southern Turkey and uncovered evidence that the two species used the same space, had similar hunting and…
DNA Reveals the Identity of a Teenager Who Died in the Revolutionary War, Cracking a Nearly 250-Year-Old Cold Case
John Pumphrey was still a boy when he enlisted in the Continental Army in 1777. After archaeologists discovered his remains, a genetic genealogy analysis identified 20,000 DNA matches for living relatives
The Rebirth of High Frequency
An examination of how satellite vulnerabilities, modern wideband waveforms, and automatic link establishment are driving renewed military and government investment in HF communications.What Attendees will LearnWhy HF (High Frequency) declined — and what has changed — How satellites overtook HF for global communications from the 1970s onward, and why growing awareness of satellite vulnerabilities to…
France Returns Artifacts to Syria
DAMASCUS, SYRIA—According to a Türkiye Today report, Emmanuel Macron, president of France, handed over 23 artifacts to Ahmed Al-Charaa, president of Syria, during a meeting held at the Umayyad Mosque. Loaned to the Arab World Institute in Paris in 2011, the objects were scheduled to be returned in 2014, but the outbreak of civil war…
Early 18th-Century Tombstone of Free Black Man Identified in Boston
Gravestone of "Boston" in the Granary Burying Ground, Boston, Masschusetts BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS—Live Science reports that conservationists identified the gravestone of a formerly enslaved man who died in Boston in the early eighteenth century. The stone is located in the Granary Burying Ground, which was established in 1660 and contains more than 5,000 graves. “I was…
Did Clovis People Hunt Large Animals?
KENT, OHIO—According to a Science News report, Metin Eren of Kent State University and his colleagues reviewed evidence collected at all 15 sites in North America where Clovis stone tools have been found with the remains of mammoths, mastodons, or gomphotheres. “Archaeologists routinely assume these localities represent evidence that Clovis people hunted these multi-ton animals,…
Take an Exclusive Look at Three Newly Discovered Medieval Shipwrecks in Menorca’s ‘Cove of Mysteries’
Meteorological tsunamis likely sank the 13th-century trading vessels, whose cargo included objects from both Christian kingdoms and Moorish communities on the Iberian Peninsula