Archaeological excavations in Pompeii have unearthed a new discovery after researchers exhumed the petrified remains horses and their riding accessories, the Italian newspaper Ansa reported Sunday. Inside the ancient villa of a high-ranking military officer, the remains of two or three horses were found, Pompeii archaeological park head Massimo Osanna told Ansa. Volcanic ash and scalding vapors serging from the mouth of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D. killed city residents and suff

Winter is around the corner and with falling snowflakes come microscopic plastic particles, at least that’s what scientists say is happening in the Arctic right now. Over 10,000 particles of plastic were found per litre of snow in the Arctic, a new study conducted by a team of German-Swiss researchers said in a study published in the journal Science Advances. Rubber particles and fibres were also detected in the freshly fallen snow samples collected from the Svalbard islands

This Civil War medical kit was handed down generations from a field surgeon to his grandson, Dr.William S. Hagler (55). New research shows that without the aid of anesthetic, Incan surgeons were more skilled than Civil War doctors at cranial surgery. Careful inspection of skulls from the Incan Empire as well as pre-Colombian Peru revealed that hundreds of Indigenous went under the knife and premodern surgeons had an 80 percent success rate as compared to the 50 percent succes

A team of archaeologists are determined to find the sunken remains of Hernan Cortes’ ship which sank to the bottom of the bay of Villa Rica in Veracruz, Mexico in 1519. According to Mexican archaeologist Roberto Junco, the conquistador’s boats could be just 15 meters below the bay’s floors. In a desperate move for control, Cortes sank his fleet outside Yucatan after conquering the Aztec empire to keep his men from breaking ranks and focused on the goal in Tenochtitlan, Mexico