1,500-Year-Old Joint Burial Offers A Look Into Atтιтudes Toward Love And The Afterlife
On the left side of the grave, the male skeleton lays with one arm outstretched, holding the abdomen of the female skeleton by its side. The woman’s…
Parthian Jar Burial Dated To 247 BC – 224 CE Unearthed In Iran’s Kurdistan Province
A team of archaeologists has unearthed a historical grave dating back to the Parthian era in a village of the western province of Kurdistan. Image credit: Iran…
Rare Mammoth Ivory Tool Offers Evidence Of Ropemaking In Central Europe More Than 35,000 Years Ago
The rope is one of the oldest human tools, and it played a crucial role in the daily lives of many ancient civilizations. Drawings found in Egyptian…
Intact 2,700-Year-Old Pacopampa Tomb Found in Northern Peru
A team of Japanese and Peruvian researchers has found in northern Peru an intact 2,700-year-old tomb containing the remains of two high priests from the ancient Pacopampa…
Bizarre Ancient Capuchin Crypt ‘Decorated’ With The Bones Of 4,000 Monks
Under the city of Rome, there is a maze of long-forgotten ancient pᴀssages and temples; there are millennia-old underground burial chambers, which remember times when Christianity was…
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…
The Chinese mummy that aged 300 years in a day: Experts baffled by ‘perfectly preserved’ body that turned BLACK just hours after its coffin was opened
A 300-year-old burial area, in which two bodies were reduced to skeletons while one was perfectly preserved, has left Chinese archaeologists baffled. When one of the coffins…
Ancient Egyptians Went Wild for Bird Mummy Offerings
Researchers studying the mummies of birds from Ancient Egypt, used at the time as votive offerings to the gods, have made an important discovery. French experts, from the CNRS,…
300-Year-Old Child Mummy Appears to Open Her Eyes in Creepy Video SH๏τ in Mexican Cathedral
Rumors are swirling about paranormal events surrounding a young Catholic saint in Guadalajara, Mexico. Called Santa Inocencia, the deceased martyr is said to have opened her eyes…
Mummified Siberian princess covered in 2,500-year-old tattoos is ‘causing floods and earthquakes’ because she is angry at being dug up two decades ago, claim locals
An exhumed 2,500 year old mummified Siberian princess is set to be reburied because native groups in the Altai Mountains claim her posthumous anger is causing floods…