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African coins found on north Australian island may rewrite history 27 Aug 2013 | 08:58 am
In 1944, an Australian soldier named Morry Isenberg was manned a radar station on the remote Wessell Islands in Australia’s Northern Territory looking out for approaching Japanese aircraft. The enemy ...
Ostrich egg globe may be oldest with New World 26 Aug 2013 | 08:59 am
Figure 1. The early sixteenth-century engraved ostrich egg globe among other ostrich eggs. Photo: Washington Map Society. Recent research has found that an elaborately carved globe made out of the se...
Help Cygan become Leeds’ Robot in Residence 25 Aug 2013 | 03:01 am
Emma Bearman of Culture Vulture has had the brilliant idea to secure 1950s robot playboy Cygan for the great city of Leeds. He lived there for a while in the 60s employed as a mascot for a car dealers...
Hear Titanic‘s life-saving musical pig play again 24 Aug 2013 | 08:53 am
A musical pig credited with saving the life of its owner, Edith Rosenbaum, during the sinking of the Titanic on April 14th, 1912, has been silent for decades. Now, thanks to the wonders of technology,...
Update: Swash Channel Wreck rudder raised 23 Aug 2013 | 08:59 am
Bournemouth University marine archaeologists have raised the elaborately carved rudder of a 17th century wreck from the seabed of Swash Channel outside of Poole Harbour off the southwest coast of Engl...
Poison ring found in 14th c. Bulgarian fortress 22 Aug 2013 | 08:55 am
It’s not the large cabochon gemstone that opens on a hinge to reveal a secret compartment filled with tasteless, odorless, deadly iocane powder of your imagination. This ring has a more subtle, and th...
Signet ring testifies to early Christians in Norfolk 21 Aug 2013 | 08:59 am
An engraved silver disc thought to be the bezel of a signet ring discovered by a metal detectorist in February in Swaffham, Norfolk, has been officially declared treasure trove at a coroner’s inquest ...
Pre-Raphaelite mural found in William Morris’ Red House 20 Aug 2013 | 08:30 am
A mural painted by Pre-Raphaelite luminaries has been found hidden behind patches of 1960s wallpaper and a wardrobe in the master bedroom of Red House, the custom home built in 1859 for William Morris...
All of Queen Anne’s Revenge to be salvaged 19 Aug 2013 | 08:54 am
The Queen Anne’s Revenge, the flagship of the notorious English pirate Edward Teach, aka Blackbeard, has been lying on the ocean floor off the coast of Beaufort Inlet in the Inner Banks of North Carol...
Nevada petroglyphs oldest known in North America 18 Aug 2013 | 08:40 am
Rock art carved on limestone boulders in Winnemucca Lake, a dried lake bed in northwest Nevada, is at least 10,500 years old and may be as much as 14,800 years old, a new analysis confirms. Even at th...
