Israeli archeologists have uncovered a 5,000-year-old Canaanite city and a 2,000-year-old Jewish village from the Second Temple period alongside each other in the Modi'in area.
The adjacent ancient sites, which were known to exist but previously lay untouched, lie on a barren, wind-whipped hilltop spanning 120 dunams near the present-day Israeli town of Shoham.
The area of the sites was to be converted into an industrial zone, but the finds – which include the remnants of ancient streets in each city, being excavated now by archeologists from the Antiquities Authority – will be exhibited in an archeological park.
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Experts Study Rare Gold Viking Arm Ring
A gold Viking arm ring, only the second of its kind to be discovered in Britain, has been handed in to experts for analysis, museum officials said today.
The 325-gram ring, which consists of 95% gold, was discovered in the possessions of a deceased York builder whose relatives brought it in to experts at the Yorkshire Museum.
It is now being studied and valued at the British Museum after being declared treasure at an inquest in York earlier this week.
Simon Holmes, of the national Portable Antiquities Scheme, based at the Yorkshire Museum, said: “It’s a very rare object indeed, there’s just so much gold there.
Ancient Inuit graves discovered in Greenland
A team of archaeologists from Denmark, Greenland and Canada announced on Wednesday they had made the first ever discovery of ancient Inuit, or Eskimo, burial sites in the far north of Greenland.
The three burial grounds were found in Ingefield Land, around 100 kilometres north of Qaanaaq in the northwest of the island and probably dated from the 13th century, team member Hans Lange, the curator of Greenland's national museum, told KNR radio.
Reno trench site dig yields prehistoric items
All the digging that's going on for the train trench through downtown Reno has produced an unexpected archaeological bonanza - a prehistoric site that may be as much as 4,000 years old and unlike any other site discovered in Nevada.
About 80 historic sites have been found so far, but the unexpected time and resources needed for the archaeological site used up the $220,000 in contingency funds for unexpected work. The Reno City Council was to consider a request on Wednesday for an additional $600,000.
Latter day Ice Men European experts investigate new ice-man
Experts who examined the body of Otzi, the ice man who died in the Italian Alps 5300 years ago, have been given three months to investigate another body from the same place.
The second body is one of three soldiers of the Austro-Hungarian empire who died in battle on September 3, 1918, 3684m metres up in the Italian Alps.
One of the three experts, Dr Alex Susanna, director of the South Tyrol Archeological Museum in Bolzano, where Otzi is displayed, said: "Until now all comparative studies have been between Otzi and artificial mummies.
Interesting. This was an angle we hadn't thought of. They are looking to compare the preservation of the recent ice mummies with Otzi, the old one.
"To the tower!" Dig at ruins of stronghold uncovers unknown tower
HISTORY is again being re-written by archaeologists who have made another discovery about a landmark stronghold that was once the seat of the earls of Caithness.
It had already been discovered that the site in Caithness was built a century earlier than was previously thought, and that two ruins - Castle Sinclair and Girnigoe Castle - are part of the same structure.
Now archaeologists have unearthed a previously unrecorded feature of the medieval castle near Wick.
Ancestors Of Turks Came To Anatolia In 2000s B.C.
Various archeological and cultural findings prove that Turks had come to Anatolia around 2000s B.C., Associated Prof. Semih Guneri said on Friday. Prof. Guneri and his team recently unearthed artifacts in excavations in Turkey's eastern provinces of Erzurum and Hakkari.
According to experts, steles discovered by Associated Prof. Veli Sevin in Hakkari in the past will shed light on the question of ''When did Turks first come to Anatolia?''. Experts started to discuss this matter when a statue head which was sculpted around 2000s B.C. and was unearthed in Bulamac Tumulus in Pasinler town of Erzurum under a project to reveal Turkish Culture's Archeological Resources in Central Asia (OTAK), carried the traces of Turkish culture.
Oddest headline we've seen yet Make a Date with the Flying Archaeologist
A bird's eye view of a historical site can unearth many hidden treasures, as visitors to Provost Skene's House will discover next week.
Moira Greig, an archaeologist with Aberdeenshire Council, has been carrying out an aerial survey of the North-east since the early 1990s and has discovered a significant number of new sites.
She is to give an illustrated lunchtime talk on Wednesday, September 1, when she will discuss the highs and lows of recent archaeological photography work over the City of Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Moray and Angus.
Researchers find American Indian artifacts on UT land
Archaeologists have unearthed evidence of a small American Indian village dating to the 1300s on the site of a proposed University of Tennessee golf practice facility in Knoxville.
Also found was the foundation of a house dating to the 1700s.
The finds are located on the university's dairy farm across Fort Loudoun Lake from the main campus. The more than 200 acres for the farm are slated to be turned into recreational, research and housing development for the university.
The findings could place the site on the National Register of Historic Places.
U-T officials plan to have more archaeological surveys performed to help determine what to do next.
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And in a similar vein. . . . Native American artifacts found along Ohio River in Clarksville
A settlement area of the Mississippian native American culture has been found on the Ohio River shoreline at Clarksville, Indiana.
Corps of Engineers archaeologists say they have collected as many as 400 bags of artifacts. The items include animal bones, fish hooks and chipped tools.
The scientists also reports the detection of human bones. That has prompted contact with native American tribes to discuss the handling and testing of the bone fragments.
The settlement is believed to have existed between one-thousand and 16-hundred A-D.
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