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A discovery buried deep beneath a remote mountainside in Turkey could offer a new clue in the centuries-old search for Noah's Ark.Researchers investigating the Durupınar Formation near Mount Ararat recently announced that pieces of charred wood were found about 30 feet below the surface.Now, the first photographs of the fragments have been released, revealing blackened, cracked wood with visible grain patterns and markings that researchers believe may have been made by ancient tools. Archaeologist Dr Cenker Atila told FOX News: 'One of the wooden pieces clearly shows signs of human workmanship. 'Its surface appears to have been slightly shaped and...

Members of the Kennedy family called President Donald Trump's plans for a 250-foot arch. close to the Arlington National Cemetery a 'permanent denigration' of their relatives' grave sites, in a court filing Tuesday. The filing to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia by late Senator Robert F. Kennedy's children called for an injunction on the work planned by the Trump administration to build the arch. on a traffic circle between the cemetery and the Lincoln Memorial. The family argued that the arch. would cast shadows that would fall on the grave sites of Senator Kennedy, President John...

According to a statement released by Bournemouth University, Iron Age British ruler Verica was actually female and not male, contrary to long-held assumptions. Verica ruled the Celtic tribe called the Atrebates in the first century A.D. and was a central figure in the Roman invasion of Britain. After she was ousted from power in A.D. 40, she fled to the Roman emperor Claudius and convinced him to invade the island three years later. The new research was led by Bournemouth archaeologist Miles Russell, who said that the patriarchal mindset of nineteenth-century classical historians is largely to blame for the confusion...

More than 700 coins were discovered at three sites near the Drava River in southwestern Hungary by archaeologists from the Rippl-Rónai Museum, Hungary Today reports. Most of the coins have been dated to the rule of the emperor Constantine (A.D. 307–337), but silver coins dating to the reigns of the emperors Antoninus Pius (A.D. 138–161), Severus Alexander (A.D. 222–235), Aurelian (A.D. 270–275), and Probus (A.D. 276–282) have also been identified. One coin, known as a "consecration coin," is thought to have been minted to mark the death of Claudius II (reigned A.D. 268–270) and his deification. Pottery, brooches, and fragments...

OKALOOSA COUNTY, Fla. (WKRG) — Okaloosa County announced the sinking of the SS United States off the coast of Destin has officially been moved up to Wednesday due to unsafe weather conditions. According to a county news release, the SS United States will be sunk on Wednesday, Nov. 11, with operations to begin at 1 p.m. The release said the sendoff ceremony originally scheduled for 1:30 p.m. is canceled. >>> “While the weather may have changed our plans, it has given this historic occasion an especially meaningful date. On Veterans Day, as we honor the men and women who served...

In 2008, workmen digging trenches for electrical cables in the Estonian island town of Salme uncovered human bones and a variety of objects that they piled next to their trench. At first the bones were thought to be from a soldier killed in World War II, but archaeologists realized that the objects dated to the Viking period. A small team of archaeologists working under Marge Konsa, an archaeologist at the University of Tartu, started excavating and soon found the hull of a ship. Nearly all of the ship's timber had rotted away, leaving behind only discolorations in the soil. But...

Broken pieces of limestone from a 4,400-year-old tomb in Egypt carry one of the earliest known Egyptian autobiographies. In it, an official named Khuwy presents himself as an honest man who was close to the royal couple. An Egyptian official who lived some 4,400 years ago wanted to be remembered as a man who never took anything from anyone. His words survive only in fragments, but those fragments may help show where a long Egyptian habit began: carving your own life story on the walls of your tomb. The man was called Khuwy. His tomb was uncovered in 2019 at...

Excavations within the medieval Great Church of Jesus in northern Sudan's Old Dongola uncovered a section of the original cathedral floor for the first time, according to an IFL Science report. Old Dongola was the capital of Makuria, a flourishing Nubian kingdom that converted to Christianity in the sixth century A.D. The cathedral once dominated the ancient metropolis, measuring 154 feet wide and 187 long, and standing over six stories high. It was one of the most monumental and important Christian buildings in Nubia, likely serving as the seat of the Bishop of Dongola, one of the most senior Christian...

The Mainichi reports that another thirteenth-century shipwreck has been discovered off Takashima Island, after two others had previously been identified in 2011 and 2015. It is believed that all three vessels went down during the 1281 Battle of Koan, when the Mongol-led Chinese Yuan Dynasty attempted to invade Japan. The recently investigated ship originally measured around 100 feet long and was equipped with living quarters, likely serving as the mother ship of the fleet. Among the items recovered by archaeologists were five dice and 29 small cards used to play koppai, a game that originated in China. "The koppai cards,...

Ivory Tools 400,000 Years Old Discoveries That Rewrote History | 54:57 History with Kayleigh Movies and History with Kayleigh | 31,350 views | November 3, 2026

In an eerie retelling of the Arthurian legend of Excalibur, archaeologists have found a 3,300-year-old sword at the bottom of a lake. The weapon was found during an underwater excavation at Lake Mezzano, a small volcanic lake in central Italy, where it had been submerged for millennia with its blade still sharp. Experts believe the sword, which dates to around 1300 BC, may have been deliberately deposited as part of a ritual offering, a practice already linked to several Bronze Age European sites. The discovery was announced by Italy's Superintendence of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape for the Province of...

Over 7,000 years ago, Neolithic farmers crossed the Mediterranean from Iberia into North Africa. Carrying Cardial Ware pottery, domesticated crops and livestock, these European migrants established communities in Morocco and mixed with indigenous Maghrebi hunter-gatherers. Archaeology and ancient DNA shows how farming spread through migration, cultural adoption and later movements from the Levant. Including the remarkable spread of the R1b-V88 paternal lineage from Mesolithic Europe and Neolithic Iberia into the Green Sahara, and ultimately to populations living around Lake Chad today. How DNA Reveals Neolithic Europeans Colonized Africa 7,000 Years Ago | 22:05 Dan Davis History | 392K subscribers |...

Bone fragments attributed to Saint Nicolas were stolen from a church in France, then allegedly burned and crushed. Priests at Saint Nicolas de Port, one of France's few sanctuaries to hold a relic of the saint, reported the theft of a reliquary containing a fragment of the saint's body on November 2. Police later arrested the suspect, who reportedly admitted acting spontaneously out of a 'desire to destroy' the relic because he viewed devotion to the bones as a form of idol worship. Saint Nicolas, the inspiration behind Santa Claus, lived between 270 and 343 AD and is famous for...

On Holy Island, a field called "The Palace" hides a story no one expected. Time Team digs into Lindisfarne's past to learn whether this plot belonged to monks, soldiers, or something stranger. Armed with a 1548 plan, geophysics and local archives, the team chases clues from a chamfered plinth and cobbled yards to twin circular structures that point to a very different "palace." A debated cannonball, boundary stones that redraw the Priory line, and an eerie butchered horse burial twist the plot. Then a Neolithic cup-marked stone surfaces from a medieval pit, and a Charles I coin keeps the dates...

This video explores the careers of three of the Roman Empire's strangest celebrities. Three Forgotten Roman Celebrities | 11:08 toldinstone | 653K subscribers | 1,874 views | November 6, 2026

In 2026, 82% of white born-again or Evangelical Christians supported Republicans, a figure that did not budge from 2024 exit polling, when Trump carried the same percentage among the demographic. However, white born-again or Evangelicals made up a much smaller share of the electorate (17%) than in 2024 (23%). .. Support for Republican candidates among other Christians in 2026 was 60%. Protestants and other Christians made up 38% of the electorate in 2026, compared to 43% in 2024. While a solid majority of Catholics (59%) supported Trump in 2024, Catholics were nearly evenly split between Democrats and Republicans in 2026....

Catholics, who made up about 20 percent of midterm voters, shifted from majority red in 2024 to a near-even split this year between Republicans and Democrats, according to both exit polls. Two years ago, exit polls showed Catholics favoring Republicans, 59 percent to 39 percent in the NBC poll, and 60 percent to 39 percent in the CNN poll, which has renamed its exit poll “voter polls” due to a change in methodology. The 2024 NBC poll looked only at 10 key states, as opposed to all 50. Nichole Flores, a religious studies professor at the University of Virginia,...

For more than three centuries, Egypt's Luxor Temple served as the base of a Roman legion. The Roman Fort in Luxor Temple | 7:14 Scenic Routes to the Past | 62.8K subscribers | 31:37 views | November 6, 2026

🚢 After more than 19 months in Mobile, the historic SS United States is scheduled to begin its final voyage Monday, November 9, at 9 a.m., weather permitting. 🌊 The 990-foot ocean liner will be towed from Modern American Recycling Services Pier 4 on the Mobile River, through Mobile Bay and into the Gulf of Mexico. The ship is expected to reach its destination Tuesday, approximately 22 nautical miles southwest of Destin-Fort Walton Beach, Florida. Sinking operations are scheduled to begin Thursday, November 12, at 10 a.m., creating what officials describe as the world's largest artificial reef. The U.S. Coast...

Archaeologists spent decades treating Rujm el-Hiri as a one-of-a-kind puzzle. A vast maze of basalt rings near the Sea of Galilee, nearly five thousand years old and stretching 492 feet across. Locals call it the Wheel of Ghosts. Researchers called it the Stonehenge of the East. Now satellite data shows the whole region has been slowly rotating the monument out from under the old theories, and the site is not even unique. Researchers from Tel Aviv University and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev first used satellite imagery to map hundreds of features around the site, including tumuli, linear walls, and...