A 3,000-year-old oak barrel full of butter was discovered in a bog in County Kildare. “It’s a national treasure, you can’t be going hacking bits of it off for your toast!” joked Carol Smith, a conservator at the National Museum of Ireland. The market for American Indian artifacts is reportedly “cloaked in a fog of […]

Gold artifacts, including rings and coins, have been found in a burial mound in southeastern Bulgaria.   They’ve also found a bronze candlestick. A fifth-century skeleton was uncovered at a Byzantine cathedral in northeastern Syria.   A 16,000-year-old mother goddess figurine has reportedly been unearthed in Direkli Cave, located in southern Turkey.   The controversy continues over the […]