A Roman-era cemetery was discovered in the Gaza Strip, but action on the housing project has continued.
The Roman burial site is not far from the ruins of the Greek port of Anthedon now the Israeli city of #Ashkelon on the border with the Gaza Strip.
Among the discoveries: a tomb with polychrome paintings depicting crowns, garlands of laurel leaves, and jars intended for funeral libations.
Dec 27, 2022
In 1762 Denmark knows Peter III(Duke of Holstein-Gottorp) will use Russian troops to take back his ancestral lands. The Danes stood little chance of winning that battle. Then Catherine the Great, his wife, completed a coup and the two governments negotiated the transfer of ducal Schleswig-Holstein to the Danish crown in return for Russian control of the County of Oldenburg and adjacent lands.
Dec 30, 2022
About 10% of all German bombs dropped on Wales during WW2 failed to detonate, and local emergency services are called to deal with about 20 bombs a year.
Wales was a major battleground because of the industrial targets along the Bristol Channel.
Feb 4, 2023
The detection of a WW2 era bomb in the southern German town of Rastatt on the Karlsruhe-Basel route has disrupted services to the Swiss city of Basel. The bomb is 70 to 80 centimeters and weighs 250 kilograms.
March 6, 2023
What would you do if you saw a man level the gun at the head of a President-elect and get off one shot? On Feb 15, 1933 Lillian Cross grabbed the arm of the gunman, Giuseppe Zangara, an Italian anarchist, and deflected three more shots. FDR was not hurt. Anton Cermak, the Mayor of Chicago, who was in Miami, Fla to ask for FDR's assistance, died a week later.
Zangara was executed on March 20, 1933.
March 28, 2023
A Roman mosaic, probably belonging to the Durobrivan group from the East Midlands, was uncovered during excavations last week at Olney, Buckinghamshire in England. The area is near the site of a Roman fort probably established between the Claudian invasion of 43 AD and the beginning of the reign of Vespasian in 69 AD.
May 5, 2023
War events last forever. The pastor of the local church in Sopiv, western Ukraine told the German War Graves Commission of the remains of German soldiers buried in its backyard. A German medical plane crashed near the village in the region of Ivanko-Frankivsk during WW2.
The German War Graves Commission was founded during the Weimar Republic in the 1920s to recover and bury the dead German soldiers from WW1.
May 18, 2023
This news is about a year old: 3D photos show that the Titanic ran over an emerged shelf of the iceberg, which was the first scenario proposed back in 1912. However, that story got buried under the idea of this 200 foot gash along the side.
Aug 8, 2023
The tradition of filling in the letters on tombstones at Normandy American Cemetery with Omaha Beach sand began in the 1950s. Perfect way to show gratitude!
Sept 6, 2023
Trinidad, a schooner that sank in Lake Michigan in 1881, was found intact. It was carrying a load of coal. Crew survived using a yawl boat.
Dec 9, 2023
Romania will receive a maritime minesweeper from Great Britain in the next few weeks and will work with Bulgaria and Turkey to search for mines in the Black Sea.
April 29, 2024
An undetonated USA Army bomb from WW2 was discovered recently during renovation work deep within Mainz's soccer stadium in Germany during renovation work and later defused.
The bomb, which weighed 500 kilograms, was unearthed during construction work for the expansion of a nearby university.
May 28, 2024
INAH, Mexico’s leading archaeology agency, wants to know how the city of Guanajuato mishandled the mummified artifacts during a museum renovation. An arm came off of one of the preserved corpses .
The corpses were originally buried in crypts in a dry, mineral-rich soil environment in the mining state of Guanajuato. Some of the corpses still have hair, leathery skin and their original clothing.
June 15, 2024
A Dutch roll is a combination of a plane's tail sliding side to side, and the plane rocking that causes the wings to roll up and down. The term is derived from a description of swaying movement sin a form of ice skating that was once popular in the Netherlands.
The Southwest pilots regained control of the plane and landed at Oakland. No reports of injuries on the flight, which carried 175 passengers and six crew members.
This incident occurred as the jet cruised at 34,000 feet from Phoenix to Oakland, CA on May 25, 2024.
Aug 10, 2024
This is what the USA State Dept does when it realizes Iran is the threat: lifts its suspension on certain transfers of air-to-ground munitions to Saudi Arabia
Aug 20, 2024
Great Britain stops Alan Turing's Delilah papers from being sold to a foreign buyer, which allows time for a UK institution to buy them. He's known for cracking the Nazi's Enigma cipher device.
Sept 2, 2024
When a WW2 bomb was found at a construction site at PKN Orlen of Litvinov,CZ a Polish oil company, experts decided not to transport the 550lb bomb to a safer place to dispose of it, because it contained a chemical mechanism designed to delay the explosion. They covered the bomb with hundreds of sandbags before the explosion.
A few broken windows and no major damage from the detonation.
Sept 11th, 2024
Danube river's low level near Prahovo reveals hundreds of scuttled explosive-laden vessels left by Nazi Germany's Black Sea fleet in 1944 as they retreated from advancing Soviet forces.
Feb 12, 2025
A truck cabin, that was swallowed by a sinkhole in Yashio city near Tokyo two weeks ago, has been located in a nearby sewer pipe, and authorities will need to install a temporary bypass pipe to stop the water flow and access the truck.
Drone images show a human body is inside the cabin, but it is unclear if it is that of the missing 74-year-old driver.
Feb 16, 2025
Adrián Simancas, a kayaker paddling through the Strait of Magellan, off Chile's Patagonian coast, was swallowed by a whale and spat back out unharmed. No time to react. Slimy nightmares.
May 16, 2025
German embassy in Japan sent boxes with personal effects to Argentina during WW2 aboard a Japanese steamship, but Argentina found Nazi items and kept them in the basement of the Supreme Court to avoid questions about neutrality. They were recently re-discovered.
May 24, 2025
NCL Salten , a cargo ship, ran aground near Johan Helberg's home on Trondheim Fjord’s coast in Norway.
He slept through it and woke up when a neighbor started ringing his doorbell.
No injuries or oil spills were reported.
July 16, 2025
Shaking my head: A prisoner being released asked staff at Lyon-Corbas prison in southeast France for a trolley to carry bags out of the prison . Another prisoner was in one of the bags. He was caught a few days later in Lyon.
Prime example of what not to do as a prison official.`
Aug 6, 2025
17K German citizens will be forced to leave their homes in Dresden today to allow for the safe defusal of a WW2 British bomb weighing 500 pounds.
It was found on Tuesday during the demolition of the Carola Bridge, parts of which collapsed into the Elbe river in September 2024.
Aug 19, 2025
In 1888 Easter Island was annexed by Chile, mainly to keep France from taking it over.
In 1933, the Chilean State Defense Council required the registration of the island in the name of the State mostly to deter private individuals from doing the same thing.
Aug 20, 2025
If years of mining in Kiruna, Sweden created instability in the ground, just move an entire wooden church intact 3.2 miles.
A major road was widened from 30 to 79 feet and a viaduct was dismantled to make way for a new intersection.
LKAB mining company is paying for the move.
Aug 24, 2025
What not to do in Seoul SK: Toss a cigarette butt. Police questioned a man who quickly attempted to bribe them. He's been on the lam for 5 years for allegedly defrauding 17.7B from 1,300 people through a cryptocurrency scam.
Sept 5, 2025
Thailand’s former PM Thaksin Shinawatra made a surprising departure from his country a few days before possibly receiving a prison sentence. Ain't no surprise!
Plane flew south toward Singapore then turned west, doing two circles and continuing toward India.
Sept 16, 2025
Ford is keeping the 1 American Road address when it moves three miles to its new headquarters in November.
Sept 29, 2025
This ain't a fun situation to resolve
Three elderly nuns, Bernadette, Rita, and Regina, have returned to Schloss Goldenstein monastery near Salzburg Austria claiming lifelong residence rights.
Allies have restored utilities and offered legal aid.
The church says their return from a retirement home violates vows and renovation plans were rejected.
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