Crusade-era bronze ring bearing the image of St. Nicholas found by an Israeli gardener
Back in 2016, we talked about a unique specimen of a Crusade-era ‘hand grenade‘ that was discovered quite fortuitously by the late Marcel Mazliah, an…
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Antikythera shipwreck unravels a flurry of fascinating finds this year
The Antikythera shipwreck is almost axiomatically associated with the renowned and enigmatic Antikythera mechanism, often heralded as the world’s oldest analog ‘computing contrivance‘. But there…
Old World metal objects found in Alaska, dating from hundreds of years before European contact
According to Purdue University researchers, Cape Espenberg on the northwestern coast of Alaska has yielded two objects made of metal that was originally sourced from…
