In archeology, bone fragments and other haunting reminders of long-ᴅᴇᴀᴅ people are a given. But some discoveries paint particularly gruesome pictures of past lives and deaths. From decapitated gladiators and vampire burials to ancient toothy tumors and a mummified lung, here are some archeological finds that give us the creeps.
Carved into the burnished red skin of a desert cliff, where heat shimmers and time moves without sound, a series of petroglyphs stare back across centuries. Found…
In the quiet fields of Xi’an, China—a city once the heart of empires—rests a monument shaped by ambition, transition, and the longing for permanence. The Mausoleum of…
Beneath the relentless Peruvian sun, the Nazca people performed an act of devotion so vast it could only be seen from the heavens. These sprawling geoglyphs—etched by…
These weathered marble blocks, scattered across the ruins of a once-grand Greco-Roman structure, bear witness to an ancient architectural dialogue—one conducted not in words, but in precision-cut…
From the dust of 11,600 years ago, Göbekli Tepe rises—not as a settlement, not as a fortress, but as a temple without a town, a sacred space built…
Emerging from the sun-baked earth of southeastern Turkey, the ancient statues of Karahantepe stand as enigmatic witnesses to humanity’s earliest attempts to carve meaning from stone. Dating…
