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.
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