A few hundred yards away from my grandparents’ farm, a man was unearthed, dating back approximately 7,000 years.
The old and the youngling. About 7000 years ago, an ageing man in his 60s was buried at Skateholm, Sweden. Next to him, face to face, lays…
Art Nouveau Door in the Casa Comalat, Barcelona 1911 by Salvador Valeri i Pupurull
Like a tribute to Gaudí, the Casa Comalat contains many elements of Gaudí’s architecture, and is one of the most original examples of home-grown art nouveau in…
The mummy of King Tutankhamen, the famous Egyptian pharaoh, can be found in his tomb in the Valley of the Kings in Luxor, Egypt
The almost intact burial of Tutankhamun was discovered in 1922 in the Valley of the Kings of Egypt. His body was laid to rest there more than…
The Sphinx of the Naxians, crafted around 560 BC, once topped a 10-meter (33-foot) column adjacent to the Temple of Apollo in Delphi.
The Sphinx of the Naxians, crafted around 560 BC, once topped a 10-meter (33-foot) column adjacent to the Temple of Apollo in Delphi. This magnificent statue served…
Ancient disease discovered in ancient DNA of Egyptian mummy
One of the oldest known cases of the ‘Black Death’ plague has been uncovered in the ancient DNA of a 3,290-year-old Egyptian mummy. The cvirus Yersinia pestis, or the…
Mystery of Peru’s’ ‘alien mummies’ deepens after two more corpses are found with slanted eyes and hair
The case of Peru’s mysterious ‘alien The corpses were said to have been found in the Nazca desert, where the first mummy was uncovered seven years ago…
Among Mycenaean elites, a common type of helmet was the boar’s tusk helmet.
Among Mycenaean elites, a common type of helmet was the boar’s tusk helmet. Since each helmet required ivory from fifty to sixty tusks, their use signaled high…
Archaeological excavations in Antakya, Turkey have turned up the largest floor mosaic at 9,000 square feet
In Zeugma, Türkiye, not far from the Syrian border, a team of archaeologists, headed by none other than Professor Kutalmış Görkay from the University of Ankara, has…
Queen Hetepheres Chair – The chair is made of wood, coated with gold foil and is about 4,500 years old.
Harvard University has created a full-scale reproduction of the golden chair/throne of Queen Hetepheres, the wife of Pharaoh Snefru and the mother of Pharaoh Khufu who built…
A 1,300-year-old female mummy with blue ‘eyes’ has been unearthed by archaeologists excavating the Huaca Pucllana site in Lima , Peru.
A 1,300-year-old female mummy with blue ‘eyes’ has been unearthed by archaeologists excavating the Huaca Pucllana site in Lima , Peru. The mummy’s mask is the most…