MELAKA: Recently unearthed remnants of a wooden vessel and other artefacts could be the first discovery of links to the Melaka Sultanate.
The vessel is believed to be linked to the last ruler of Melaka, Sultan Mahmud Shah (1488-1511), said Datuk Dr Dionysius SK Sharma.
The archaeology buff is currently working closely with the National Heritage Department and Melaka Museum Corporation (Perzim) to unearth tangible artefacts relating to the sultanate. We used to discover remnants of galleons related to the (former colonialists) Dutch and Portuguese as well as Chinese junks, he said when met at the discovery site on Pulau Melaka on Friday (April 2).
Several items of historical significance have been found in a cave in the Judean Desert. The most incredible find was a 2,000-year-old biblical scroll which makes it the first time that such an item has been found since the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the 1940s and 1950s.
The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) and the Archaeology Department of the Civil Administration conducted several very difficult operations to explore all the caves in the area, although only about 80 kilometers (50 miles) of caves have been surveyed so far during their operation and around half of it still hasn’t been touched.
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Based on a grave and the artifacts found in it, archaeologists believe that women may have been powerful leaders in the south-eastern part of Spain during the Bronze Age. According to the Research Group in Mediterranean Social Archaeoecology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), females may have held very important leadership roles of the El Argar society around 4,000 years ago.
A tomb that has been called Grave 38 was found in the La Almoloya site which is located in Murcia, Spain. There were two people in the grave – a man between 35 and 40 years of age, along with a woman who was between 25 and 30 years old. They died at approximately the same time and their daughter was buried close by.