Pompeii Archaeological Park reader comments 50 with 30 posters participating Share this story Archaeologists working in Pompeii recently unearthed the tomb and partially mummified remains of a man who died a few decades before the eruption. The man, Marcus Venerius Secundio, according to his epitaph, had once been enslaved, but by the end of his ..
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Enlarge / Julie Schablitsky searches for artifacts at the site. reader comments 17 with 17 posters participating Share this story In the years before the American Civil War, Harriet Tubman led dozens of enslaved people to freedom through the network of safe houses known as the Underground Railroad. During the war, she scouted, spied, and ..
Enlarge / A Yemeni khamsiyat (top left), a Spanish real (top right), and a shilling minted in the American colonies (bottom) from the 17th century. reader comments 14 with 14 posters participating Share this story According to historian and metal-detector enthusiast Jim Bailey, the handful of 17th-century Arabic coins unearthed at sites across New England ..
reader comments 47 with 22 posters participating Share this story Archaeologists found the bones of three young African men in a 500-year-old mass grave in what is now Mexico City. The chemical makeup of their bones sheds light on their earlier lives in Africa, and forensic analysis reveals hard, painful lives and young deaths. How ..
Enlarge / “We did not find Clotilda. I don’t think Clotilda was ever lost to some,” said Delgado. Emma Langdon Roche, publisher: New York: The Knickerbocker Press, 1914. reader comments 58 with 44 posters participating Share this story The state of Alabama has filed an Admiralty claim for ownership of the wreckage of the last ..
Schablitsky et al. 2019 reader comments 19 with 15 posters participating Share this story Clay pipes used for smoking were so common in the 1700s and 1800s that it’s not very remarkable to find fragments of them at archaeological sites from the early days of the United States. But Julie Schablitsky, chief archaeologist for Maryland’s ..