It has been confirmed that beams pulled from the banks of the Hudson River by dredging equipment belonged to Fort Edward’s water bastion. The colonial-era fort blocked the French from moving south toward Albany during the French and Indian War. Archaeologists will continue to dig underwater and deeper into the river bank. Timbers from a […]

A Turkish and German team has unearthed a 5,000-year-old Venus figurine and a stone seal at Çanakkale. “We also found stone axes, [and] well-processed and embellished pots and spindle-whorls, which were used for spinning wool,” said Rüstem Aslan of the University of Tubingen. French archaeologists have decided that a prehistoric site on an island in […]