Researchers in Roskilde, Denmark, have uncovered the remains of a 13th-century convent hidden six feet beneath a local soccer field, a structure believed lost since the Protestant Reformation demolished it nearly five centuries ago. The discovery came this summer after local officials began preparatory work on a parking facility for the field. Before breaking ground, […] The post Medieval convent lost for 770 years found buried beneath a Danish soccer field appeared first on American Almanac .
Researchers in Roskilde, Denmark, have uncovered the remains of a 13th-century convent hidden six feet beneath a local soccer field, a structure believed lost since the Protestant Reformation demolished it nearly five centuries ago. The discovery came this summer after local officials began preparatory work on a parking facility for the field. Before breaking ground, crews ran a Ground Penetrating Radar survey, a system that sends electromagnetic waves into the earth and reads the reflections that bounce back from buried structures. What came back stunned the researchers watching the monitors: clear, detailed images of St. Clare's Convent, a monastery dating to 1256, sitting largely intact beneath the turf. Archaeologist Arne Abel Stamnes…Open
Israeli police stumbled upon an ancient rock-cut burial cave beneath a building in Silwan while searching for suspects in a violent family dispute, a discovery some say strengthens the historical record of Scripture. What began as a routine law enforcement search in Silwan, a village in East Jerusalem, quickly turned into an archaeological revelation. Israeli […] The post Israeli police uncover ancient burial cave during East Jerusalem operation appeared first on American Almanac .
Israeli police stumbled upon an ancient rock-cut burial cave beneath a building in Silwan while searching for suspects in a violent family dispute, a discovery some say strengthens the historical record of Scripture. What began as a routine law enforcement search in Silwan, a village in East Jerusalem, quickly turned into an archaeological revelation. Israeli police, assisted by Jerusalem Border Police officers and representatives from several government authorities, were conducting a sweep in connection with what was described as a violent family conflict. The operation took place at a residential compound where individuals tied to the conflict reportedly lived. But during the search, officers found far more than expected: a rock-cut…Open
After 133 years hidden from public view, CNN's Nick Watt gets a peek inside The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' newly renovated Salt Lake Temple.
This article is adapted from Dinesh D’Souza’s book The Stones Cry Out: Biblical Archaeology, Prophecy, and the Last Days, published by Charisma Books. The book […] Source
The ruins of a 2,400-year-old complex suggest that, to the Greeks of antiquity, Homer’s protagonist was not just a character in a poem but a figure of genuine devotion.
The Grayzone’s Wyatt Reed documents the arrival of the body of Iranian leader Sayyid Ali Khamenei to the Iraqi city of Karbala — the spiritual capital for over 200 million Shias — and explains why so many are drawing parallels between his killing at the hands of Trump and Netanyahu, and the slaying of the foundational figure of Shia Islam, Imam al-Hussein.
