(Photo: Assaf Perez/IAA)A family in Jerusalem, Israel found an incredible archaeological find beneath their living room floor: a huge, well-preserved, and ancient mikveh, which is a Jewish ritual bath. It's carved direct...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/07/06/Family-Finds-2000-Year-Old-Ritual-Bath-Beneath-Their-Living-Room-Floor/They say that cockroaches will outlive all other life forms on earth. If that’s the case, they may have a hard time figuring out the life forms they left behind during the apocalypse. Like the 21st-century teenager...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/06/05/Future-Cockroach-Archaeologists/Life in prison in the 18th and 19th centuries could be brutal, according to a memoir by convicted counterfeiter William Stuart. His accounts of starvation rations were taken with a grain of salt due to his reputation, bu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/05/20/Starving-Felons-and-Other-Lessons-from-Prison-Archaeology/A couple of weeks ago, we learned about cemeteries that go out of business. That’s what happened to New Jersey’s oldest cemetery, the Historic Jersey City and Harsimus Cemetery, founded in 1831. It had been f...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/04/28/The-New-Jersey-Cemetery-Trapped-in-the-19th-Century/Luciano Faggiano kept battling a toilet that clogged up regularly at his restaurant in Lecce, Italy. In 2000, he’d finally had enough and enlisted his sons to dig up his plumbing system and fix it once and for all....
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/04/16/Blocked-Toilet-Leads-to-New-History-Museum/(Photo: unknown)Please remain on the line. You clay tablet is very important to us. Tablets will be answered in the order in which they were received.The British Museum owns a baked clay tablet from the Mesopotamian city...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/02/25/Customer-Service-Complaint-1750-BC/(Photo: Greek Ministry of Culture)Archaeologists in southern Greece uncovered the well-preserved skeletal remains of two people. DNA testing confirms that one is a man and the other a woman. According to Anastassia Papat...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/02/15/This-Skeleton-Couple-Has-Been-Locked-in-an-Embrace-for-5800-Years/There are quite a few places where early Americans left their marks, but did not leave us any explanations. European explorers had never seen anything like them, and local people said they’d always been there for r...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/12/21/10-of-the-United-States-Most-Intriguing-Archaeological-Mysteries/(Photo: Oregon Flute Store)Many years ago, archaeologists discovered skull-shaped whistles at Aztec sites. They believe that priests used these instruments during human sacrifice ceremonies. Quijas Yxayotl, a musician wh...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/12/03/The-Horrifying-Sound-of-an-Aztec-Death-Whistle/(Photo: German Archaeological Institute)This block of stone measures 64 feet by 19.6 feet by 18 feet. Weighing in at 1,960 tons, it's the largest known surviving block of stone carved by humans.The German Archaeological...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/12/03/This-Is-the-Largest-Stone-Block-Ever-Carved-by-Human-Hands/
