World’s oldest nuclear family unearthed in Germany
DNA extracted from bones and teeth in a 4,600-year-old stone age burial has provided the earliest evidence for the nuclear family as a social structure. The find…
Meet ‘Baby Yingliang’: Exquisitely preserved dinosaur embryo is discovered inside a 72 million-year-old fossilised EGG in China
An exquisitely preserved dinosaur embryo has been found curled up inside a fossilised egg, unearthed in southern China, dating back some 66–72 million years. The embryo has been dubbed ‘Baby…
Ötzi
Ötzi, also called The Iceman, is the natural mummy of a man who lived between 3350 and 3105 BC. Ötzi’s remains were discovered on 19 September 1991, in the Ötztal Alps (hence the…
Mummy of Seti I
Seti I is believed to have died at around 40–50 years old, based on studies of his mummy and historical records. His reign lasted approximately 11–15 years,…
Sword in the Stone in Tuscany Proven Real and Likely Inspiration for Excalibur
The sword trapped in stone, only to be freed by the forceful grip of a future king, is an essential part of the King Arthur mythology. The…
Around 200 skeletons are unearthed at one of Britain’s best beaches after archaeologists excavate 1,500 year-old cemetery at site of a medieval trading post
Around 200 well-preserved medieval skeletons have now been recovered from one of Britain’s best beaches, archaeologists say, including 90 in the last three weeks alone. The bodies,…
Remains of a 2,000-year-old barbarian woman are found buried in North Caucasus with jewellery that was created in the Roman Empire – including glᴀss beads and rare gems
The remains of an ancient ‘barbarian woman’ thought to be almost 2,000 years old have been found bedecked in fine jewellery from the Roman Empire. She was…
Evicted from a Cemetery and into a Museum: The Mulтιтude of Mummies of Guanajuato
The mummies of Guanajuato are a group of naturally preserved bodies that were found in Guanajuato, a city in central Mexico. The story of these mummies dates…
Viking Artistic Development and Stylistic Influences on Later Scandinavian, Anglo-Saxon, and Western European Romanesque Art and Architecture
The artistic and architectural stylistic, methodological and technological aspects of world cultures have, with rare exception, displayed bilaterally direct and indirect influence while leaving their unique historical…
Robbing Native American Cultures: Van Sertima’s Afrocentricity and the Olmecs
Abstract: In 1976, Ivan Van Sertima proposed that New World civilizations were strongly influenced by diffusion from Africa. The first and most important contact, he argued, was…