The National Museum of the Philippines (NMP) recently received a valuable cultural artifact, a limestone burial jar lid, from Madison County Historical Society (MCHS)...
Filipino archeologists recently discovered traces of human and fossilized animal bones believed to be from the "Last Ice Age" between 20,000 and 40,000 years...
In a post on January 4, Rachelle Ureta of the MUCHD of the National Museum of the Philippines (NMP) wrote that in 1985, together with the French team of underwater archeologist Franck Goddio, their electronic surveys searching for a British East Indiaman vessel Royal Captain, accidentally found the presence of a much older cargo hidden in a coral structure.
The NMP in a post on Facebook written by Nero Austero late Monday night said headstones or tombstones are engraved stone markers otherwise known as funerary tablets.
The NMP wrote that in 1985, World Wide First (WWF) led by French underwater archaeologist Franck Goddio partnered with them to look for the remains of the East India Company ship Royal Captain, a vessel that was commissioned to bring goods to Canton, China to the free port in Balambangan Islands then to England.
