Collaborate Disseminate
Looming large over the British countryside, Stonehenge cuts an imposing figure – but it’s just a fraction of the structures that once stood in the area. Now, archaeologists have discovered a huge, previously unknown ring of structures surrounding the r… Continue reading Huge prehistoric circle of structures discovered near Stonehenge
The fall of the Roman Republic may have been helped along by an unlikely factor – a colossal volcanic eruption that took place on the opposite side of the Earth. The eruption was the largest in the northern hemisphere for the last 2,500 years, and the … Continue reading Massive volcanic eruption may have contributed to rise of Roman Empire
An international team of researchers has mapped the entirety of an ancient, buried Roman city known as Falerii Novi using radar scanning technology. The researchers unraveled the secrets of the city, which once sprawled over 30.5 hectares of Italian co… Continue reading Complete ancient Roman city mapped using ground-penetrating radar
Archaeologists have used laser technology to map a 100-km (62-mile) Maya stone road that could have been built 1,300 years ago to help with the invasion of an isolated city in modern-day Mexico. The ancient highway is thought to have been constructed a… Continue reading Archaeologists use laser tech to reveal secrets of 100-km Maya road
We might not think of analog computers as having existed in the 1500s, but in fact the astrolabe first appeared around 220 BC. However, as you might expect only a few very old ones still exist. Early astrolabes were often wooden and were difficult to use aboard ships, however brass …read more
Continue reading Maritime Analog Computer From 1503 Is The Oldest Remaining
Mexico’s San Actun cave system contains pottery, bones of extinct giant sloths, and a 9,000-year-old human skull. Continue reading The World’s Biggest Underwater Cave Is Full of Maya Bones and Artifacts
With the help of lasers and drones, scientists have found that Maya civilization was more advanced and populous than previously imagined. Continue reading The Ruins of a Massive Ancient City Have Been Discovered in Guatemala
The people of Göbekli Tepe loved carving headless humans into stone. Turns out they also loved carving human heads using stone. Continue reading The World’s Oldest Known Temple Was Home to a ‘Skull Cult’
[Sadiq Mohamed] posted this great list of light bulb jokes in our post about drones changing light bulbs. This favored relic used to exist on a Compuserve SIG, but fortunately a dedicated user had saved the list.
There have been virtual worlds long before our computers could render anything but potatoes with anime faces. Bulletin boards, mailing lists, and forums dominated and then fell, for the most part, to social media. In a way even the personal home page has gone to the wayside. (remember geocities?)
The internet has gone through many phases of development. We’ve experimented with lots of …read more
Continue reading Ask Hackaday: What’s Your Favorite Internet Relic?
Drone technology is seeing useful application in a new field seemingly every day — so it was only a matter of time before it saw use in archaeology. And so, a team of researches in Australia are combining drone and VR modeling technology to help investigate the Plain of Jars, in Laos.
After the drone images the site, those photos are patched together by object recognition software and are reviewed in the immersive CAVE2 3D facility at Melbourne, Australia’s Monash University. Multiple surveys catalog and archive the dig at various stages and enable the archaeologists to continue investigating the site …read more
