Archaeologists have unearthed a 4,000-year-old copper dagger and fragments of human skulls deep in a cave in Italy. The cave was clearly used for burials, but it also holds the remains of an ancient hearth. “The moment we discovered the dagger was unforgettable,” Federico Bernardinian archaeologist at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice, told Live Science. […]
A famous fossil formation in the Yixian region of Northeast China has revealed some of the most striking, well-preserved dinosaur remains on record. Over the past 60 years, archaeologists excavating the area have uncovered scores of undisturbed, full-body skeletons seemingly frozen in time at the exact moment they died. Feathers and other intact soft tissue […]
Archaeologists uncovered a gold votive offering to a war god while excavating a 1,800-year-old Roman fortress in the country of Georgia. “This thin plate, inscribed in Greek, was a dedication to Jupiter Dolichenus, a deity especially revered by Roman soldiers,” the Polish-Georgian archaeological team wrote in a statementcalling it “unique.” “He was the god of […]
A new Mayan city, lost in the dense jungle of southern Mexico for centuries, has been discovered from the computer of a PhD student hundreds of miles away. This is the story of how he did it. The settlement, named Valeriana after a nearby freshwater lagoon, has all the characteristics of a classic Maya political […]
While digging to find an ancient settlement in southern Sweden, archaeologists made a completely unexpected discovery: an enormous Viking Age cemetery with more than 100 graves and several ship-shaped mounds. As soon as excavations began, “we realized that there was a large Viking burial ground that we had to focus on,” project leader Petra Nordinan […]
Since 2000, at least 14 expedition crews have unsuccessfully tried to find the final resting place of the HMS Trooperbut the ill-fated World War II submarine has finally been located. According to researchers, the British vessel resides 830-feet-down at the bottom of the Icarian Sea, near the Greek island of Donoussa—and the wreckage indicates an […]
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A metal detectorist in Germany has discovered a rare hoard of almost 3,000 Roman-era coins outside of the Roman Empire‘s ancient borders and far from any known Germanic tribe settlements of the time. Experts don’t know how or why the huge hoard ended up there. The licensed metal detectorist immediately reported the findings to government […]
The malware resides in the userspace portion of the interbank switch connecting the issuing domain and the acquiring domain. When a compromised card is used to make a fraudulent translation, FASTCash tampers with the messages the switch receives from issuers before relaying it back to the merchant bank. As a result, issuer messages denying the […]
