Well Before Wall Street: Morocco’s Mountain Granaries Might Be the World’s Earliest Banking Insтιтutions
Scattered across North Africa’s mountainous regions, particularly in Morocco’s High Atlas and Anti-Atlas mountains, stand remarkable fortified structures that some historians consider to be the world’s oldest…
Perfectly Preserved Baby Woolly Mammoth ‘Mummy’ Found By Gold Miners in Canada – The First Such Discovery in North America
Miners of the Klondike gold fields probably didn’t expect to make such a rare and precious discovery. Indeed, it’s pure gold! The incredible find was uncovered from…
This 4,500-year-old Egyptian Beadnet Dress Was Painstakingly Reᴀssembled from 7,000 Beads Found in a Tomb
The only complete ancient Egyptian beadnet dress found to date reveals a lot about the style and craftsmanship of the Old Kingdom period. In 1927, a team…
Bernini’s Baldacchino shines again at St. Peter’s
The Baldacchino, the great canopy above the high altar of St. Peter’s Basilica designed by Baroque master architect and sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini, has been revealed in its…
“Skeleton of Giant” Is Internet PH๏τo Hoax
The National Geographic Society has not discovered ancient giant humans, despite rampant reports and pictures. The hoax began with a doctored pH๏τo and later found a receptive online audience—thanks…
Strange Mummies Of Venzone: Ancient Bodies That Never Decompose Remain An Unsolved Mystery
These strange mummies were found in the Italian city of Venzone, a small hamlet in the province of Udine. The first mummy was unearthed in 1647, and…
Chronicles of Ajanta Caves from the 2nd century BCE to about 480 CE in Maharashtra
A horseshoe-shaped group of rock-cut ancient temples, the Ajanta Caves, lies across the Wangorah River in Maharashtra’s Aurangabad district. The Ajanta Caves, found by accident in 1819…
Mysterious Mermaid Mummy Investigated By Scientists
For hundreds of years, this strange “mermaid mummy” has been kept at a temple where it was worshipped by believers hoping the enigmatic creature could bring them…
Scientific ‘Detective Work’ With South American Mummies Reveals They Were Brutally Murdered
How frequent was violence in prehistoric human societies? One way to measure this is to look for trauma in prehistoric human remains. For example, a recent review…
Unique Temple Of The Condor In Machu Picchu: 3D Spectacular Inca Stonemasonry
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – The Temple of the Condor in Machu Picchu is spectacular and one of many examples of extraordinary Inca stonemasonry. It is also one of several…