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Remains of ancient altars and inscribed marble slabs were discovered submerged underwater along the Italian coast, near Naples, having likely laid undisturbed for millennia. Researchers believe the religious temple found off the coast of Puteoli, modern-day Pozzuoli, was built by the Nabataeans, an ancient nomadic civilisation from Jordan. Another impressive structure built by the Nabataeans, Petra’s Treasury, featured in the 1989 film Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, in which the building serves as the resting place of the Holy Grail.                                         From:  Independent Visit Website  https://www.weaversnest.org/  for more information on Archaeology and History.                                           ...

While excavating a palace at the site of Megiddo in northern Israel in the 1930s, a team of University of Chicago archaeologists uncovered a small ceramic jug containing 44 silver objects. The excavators thought that this silver hoard had been left on an earthen floor between 1850 and 1750 b.c., during the Middle Bronze Age. This would have made it at least 100 years older than the oldest silver hoard previously found in the southern Levant. After reexamining the hoard, archaeometallurgist Tzilla Eshel of the University of Haifa suspected the original archaeologists had misinterpreted its context. She compared the lead isotopes in the silver to those in artifacts from other Levantine silver hoards. The results indicated that the ratio of the isotopes in the Megiddo items is similar to silver objects found in the area that date to between 1550 and 1400 b.c., during the Late Bronze Age.                         ...

The remains of more than 50 Vikings were uncovered recently in Åsum, a village in Denmark, and their remarkable condition could offer incredible insight into the lives they led. As reported in Archaeology Magazine, a team of archaeologists from Museum Odense were conducting an excavation of the area ahead of a planned upgrade of the local electrical grid. During their dig, they uncovered a burial ground, measuring roughly 2,000 square meters, which held “more than 50 exceptionally well-preserved skeletons,” along with five cremation graves. The site has been dated back to the 9th and 10th centuries.                                                        From:  Popular Mechanics Visit Website  https://www.weaversnest.org/  for more information on Archaeology and History.           ...