Posts Tagged ‘rediscovered’

Lost Peruvian Huaca Pintada and its 1,000-Year-Old Mural Rediscovered

The last time anyone saw this Peruvian Huaca Pintada was over a century ago.  Read more Section:  News History & Archaeology Ancient Places Americas Read Later  Source

A Rediscovered Unit of Length and Implications for the Neolithic

Following work which began in the 1970s and spanned nearly 40 years, Peter Harris and Norman Stockdale identified a “new” unit of length in 2015. They called it the Harris and Stockdale Megalithic Foot, or the HSMF for short, to distinguish it from other similar lengths. It is 14.142 inches (35.92 cm) or 1.1785 feet […]

Henry III’s Rediscovered Westminster Abbey Sacristy Opens to Tourists

The long-lost Great Sacristy of Henry III, built nearly eight centuries ago and rediscovered in 2020, will be open to the public for the first time this summer. The 13th century king ordered this sacred building be constructed for use by Benedictine monks, who would be assigned to his then under-construction Westminster Abbey church in […]

“Rediscovered” Judean Roman Coffins Decorated For Afterlife Protection

Construction workers in Israel have rediscovered a pair of ancient stone Roman coffins that had been found 25 years earlier and then forgotten. The two Roman-era (63 BC-324 AD) stone sarcophagi were unearthed at the Ramat Gan Safari Park in Tel Aviv, Israel. Archaeologists with the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) say the pair of highly-ornate […]

Deep sea fish missing for more than a century rediscovered off Sydney, Australia

     A “faceless” deep-sea fish not seen for more than a century has been rediscovered by scientists trawling the depths of a massive abyss off Australia’s east coast, along with “amazing” quantities of rubbish. The 40cm fish was rediscovered 4km below sea level in waters south of Sydney by scientists from Museums Victoria and the […]

US Marijuana Legalization is Putting Mexican Drug Cartels Out of Business

Marijuana legalization in the US has been a slow and cautious process thus far. The country is only peppered with a few states allowing medicinal marijuana, and even fewer with actual legalization. by Minds Though that amount may seem minuscule, but according to a recent report by the US Border Patrol, it’s taking a serious […]

Sao Paulo police deploy tear gas & rubber bullets against transport fare hike protesters

While officials are yet to produce the official figures for those injured during the Thursday night clashes, social media users are flooding the web with reports of dozens being injured in the military police crackdown on protesters. According to the collective of activists and lawyers, at least six people were injured on one single street […]

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