Author: Vittoria Traverso / Source: Atlas Obscura This 8,000-year-old skull was part of a mysterious Mesolithic ritual. Between 2009 and 2011, archaeologists digging the Kanaljorden site, on what was once a shallow lake near the Motala ström river in central...
Author: Emily Sullivan / Source: NPR.org The 300-pound sphinx is the second recovered from the Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes. Archaeologists recently unearthed a curious artifact in California: An Egyptian sphinx. Unlike the Great Sphinx of Giza, which was made of...
Author: Sarah Laskow / Source: Atlas Obscura Sacred shrew (ÄM 690). © Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, SMB. Photographs: Sandra Steiss and Christian Schmidt The other day I was checking my email and was excited to see a note from Neal Woodman. Woodman...
Author: Sarah Laskow / Source: Atlas Obscura A dugout canoe circa 1918. Florida is the boating capital of the United States: In 2016, the state had more registered recreational boats than any other. But to Julie Duggins, an archaeologist for the state’s...
Author: Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn / Source: did you know? I don’t know about you, but I find it pretty amazing when people discover something new. That said, I also feel like the chances of someone without training or expertise uncovering something we’ve never...
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