 This week, learn about gingerbread houses 🏠, an old train 🚂, a seaside 1663 house 🌊, a shocking find in Wildwood 🚫, and women’s items from a lost city 💎! Happy Hanukkah!! 🔯 Traditional gingerbread houses fill museum space in Garden City By Greg Mocker for PIX 11 News Historic Hoboken diesel locomotive retires to Boonton By William Westhoven for Morristown Daily Record This is the oldest place you can possibly go in New Jersey and its history will fascinate you By Kristen for Only in Your State Beach homes evacuated after WWII era explosive found along the shore, NJ officials say By Julia Marnin for Miami Herald Graves of rich, powerful women found in lost city of Herodotus By Viktoria Greenboim Rich for Haaretz (photo below courtesy of Iryna Shramko) 
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 This week, learn all about lacrosse 🥍, newly found cemeteries in NJ ⛼, mastodons 🐘, rock art 🎨 and an old fishing rod 🎣🐟! The Native American origins of lacrosse By Lesley Kennedy for History More historic burial grounds for African Americans discovered in New Jersey By Ricardo Kaulessar for NorthJersey.com What lies beneath Warren County? Mastodons, apparently. By Steve Novak for lehighvalleylive.com Rock art found near Canada's Wanuskewin Bison Jump By Archaeology (photo below courtesy of Wanuskewin Heritage Park) Archaeology breakthrough after discovery of ancient human fishing rod: 'Amazing' By Joel Day for Express Daily UK   This week, learn about fun with 3-D art 🎨, seeing the past in color 📸, a cemetery gone wild ⾋, a boy finding his Native roots 👪, and an ancient cloth 👚! Looking for a road trip? Check out the Tilt Museum at American Dream By News 12 Staff New book enlivens vintage photographs of Jersey Shore By Tom Wilk for New Jersey Monthly (photo above courtesy of Local Color/Down The Shore Publishing) This historic Brooklyn cemetery shows us a future without lawns By Ryan Goldberg for Popular Science 11-year-old learning about history of Native Americans in school takes a step further to learn more about their culture By Emily Adams-Bentley for Times Tribune What was ancient clothing like? See one of the oldest pieces of cloth in the world By SciTechDaily (photo courtesy of Antoinette Rast-Eicher, University of Bern)   This week, learn about an incredible battleship 🚢, a cool NJ mine 💎, a scuba diving discovery 🛶, a hidden passageway 🚪, and an Egyptian king’s temple 👑! Exploring one of the greatest battleships in history: The USS New Jersey By Geoffrey Morrison for C/Net The Sterling Hill Mining Museum is a must-visit for an adventure in time By Eva Grall for Hoboken Girl (photo above courtesy of sterlinghillminingmuseum.org) A Wisconsin archaeologist was scuba diving for fun. She found a sunken 1,200-year-old canoe. By Sophie Carson for Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Property developer discovers secret passageway behind bookshelf in 500-year-old house By David Kindy for Smithsonian Magazine Archaeologists uncover decorated blocks from King Nactanebo I temple By Nevine El-Aref for ahram online (photo below courtesy of Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities)   This week, learn about yummy chocolate candies 🍫, a place to find dinosaur bones 🦎🦴, a cool basketball jersey 🏀, live artifact digging 🔎 , and old cave art 🐢🐍 M&M’s the world’s most famous candy is a part of NJ History By Big Joe Henry for New Jersey 101.5 Rowan University’s new fossil museum sits within an active dinosaur fossil dig By David Malone for Building Design +Construction Nets ‘City Edition’ uniforms pay tribute to New Jersey roots By Net Income for Nets Daily Museum offering public opportunity to watch archaeologists in action By Victoria College Media Office for Victoria Advocate Telangana: Mesolithic rock art site discovered in Rajanna-Sircilla By Vivek Bhoomi for The New Indian Express (photo below courtesy of The New Indian Express)   This week, learn about a guy in a painting 🖌🖌, a pretty bird 🐦, the myth of the Jersey Devil 😈, a boy’s ancient fingerprint 🍯, and a very old cake 🎂! Have a happy & safe Halloween & Day of the Dead!! 🎃👻 This N.J. re-enactor highlights little-known history. Now, his face is on display. By Michael Mancuso for NJ Advance Media for NJ.com (photo courtesy of artist Don Triani) Bluebirds soar in New Jersey By Valerie Baron for SNJ Today Time to welcome the Jersey Devil home — to Bordentown By Dan Aubrey for U.S.1 PrincetontInfo.com (photo above courtesy of Pinelands Preservation Alliance) Fingerprints point to 5,000-year-old Orkney pottery class By BBC News Carbonized cake recovered in Germany By Archaeology Magazine (photo below courtesy of Hanseatic City of Lübeck)   This week, learn about a helpful map 📜, a lost village 🏡🏡🏡, houses on stilts 🌊, very old tree rings 🞜, and an ancient map of stars ⭐! Montgomery museum devises map of local Black history sites By SSAAM for nj.com Community Bulletin (photo above courtesy of Stoutsburg Sourland African American Museum) Uncovering N.J.: Discover a desolate village tucked away in the woods By Kathleen Butler for Jersey's Best This site is an important piece of Filipino American history. Climate change is destroying it. By Rachel Ramirez for CNN Archaeologists used tree rings and astrophysics to prove Vikings were in Canada in 1021 By Peter Weber for The Week British Museum to display the world's oldest map of stars By Associated Press (photo below courtesy of Juraj Lipták/State Office for Heritage Management and Archaeology Saxony-Anhalt)   Learn about Flamenco dancing 💃, angelic tombstones 👼, a very old house ⌂, Native American lands near you 👣, & exploring ancient England 🌍 ! Dance, a history lesson, and cultural fusion? N.J. troupe does all three. By Aristide Economopoulos & Jessica Mazzola for NJ Advance Media for NJ.com This man has visited 200 cemeteries in New Jersey in hopes of preserving the storied histories found within By Darren Tobia for Jersey Digs (photo above courtesy of Phil Lilgeberg) An 1800s home in Paramus with ties to Black history will be spared, developer says By Stephanie Noda for NorthJersey.com Text this number to find out what Native American land you’re on By Alix Martichoux for Nexstar Media Wire (photo below courtesy of native-land.ca) Stunning aerial archaeology mapping tool lets you 'fly' across England and explore its rich history By Sam Tonkin for Mailonline   This week, visit fossils 🦎, learn about NJ candies 🍬, see a video about past Delaware River peoples 🎥🌊, search for historical clues 🔎, and look at rock heads 🤯! Groundbreaking for $73M Fossil Park Museum set for Saturday By Eric Strauss for ROI-NJ Iconic candy brands born, bred and made in New Jersey By Sharon M. Goldman for New Jersey Monthly (photo courtesy of smarties.com) New video celebrates Native American history in Bordentown on the Delaware By Kristin Antonello for Tap into Bordentown 'Black history is literally everywhere.' Archaeologists search Raleigh site for clues By Dawn Baumgartner Vaughan for The News & Observer Human depictions, 3D sculptures of Karahantepe site to shed light on history By News Service for YeniSafak (photo below courtesy of YeniSafak)   This week, learn about a bus that listens 🚌👂, a road with lots to see 🦅🌊, a precious farm 🐐🍅, old footprints 👣, and ancient camel sculptures 🐫 ! Newark Story Bus conducts roaming collection of NJ's diverse history and stories By Mary Ann Koruth for NorthJersey.com (photo above courtesy of Rachel Fawn) Visit NJ’s often-overlooked Bayshore Heritage Scenic Byway By Shelby Vittek for New Jersey Monthly 200-year-old farm being revitalized by volunteers in Mount Laurel, New Jersey By Ashley Johnson & 6ABC Digital Staff Prehistoric footprints push back timeline of humans’ arrival in North America By Livia Gershon for Smithsonian Magazine (photo below courtesy of Bournemouth University) Thousands of years before the pyramids, Neolithic peoples were carving camels into Saudi Arabia’s rocky desert By Sarah Cascone for artnet news  |
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