Mummies’ last meal revealed: Braids on 2,000-year-old skeletons in Peru show a diet of fish, corn and beans
Hair on 2,000-year-old mummies has helped reveal what Paracas people in Peru ate in the weeks before their death. A team of archaeologists used the remarkably well-preserved…
Mummy Juanita: The Sacrifice of the Inca Ice Maiden
Momia Juanita (‘Mummy Juanita’) is the name given to the mummy of a 15th century Incan girl who was discovered in Peru in 1995. She is known…
Mummy Juanita: The Sacrifice of the Inca Ice Maiden
Updated 25 March, 2018 – 18:47 dhwty Mummy Juanita: The Sacrifice of the Inca Ice Maiden Momia Juanita (‘Mummy Juanita’) is the name given to the mummy of a…
The Eternal Embrace: A Haunting Tale of Motherly Love from an Ancient Disaster
A Frozen Moment in Time In a remarkable discovery that defies the boundaries of time itself, archaeologists in China have uncovered the interlocked skeletons of a…
An epic tail! David Attenborough follows the story of how experts found the world’s largest dinosaur measuring 121ft – and its heart weighed more than THREE people
If you thought the 85ft-tall (25 metre) Diplodocus was big, think again. Paleontologists recently unearthed a new species of тιтanosaur that would have measured a staggering 121ft-long…
Skull of Mary Magdalene
Skull of Mary Magdalene The skull of Mary Magdalene can be found in the South of France in the once Gallo Roman town of Villa Latta or Tégulata, which after the…
An asbestos mask worn by an Italian flamethrower soldier in World War 1.
The P helmet, PH helmet and PHG helmet superseded the Hypo Helmet. The P Hood and the PH Hood looked identical, the later pattern was dipped in…
The Resurrection of Karnak: Auguste Mariette’s Monumental Legacy
In the sweltering heat of Egypt in 1865, a French Egyptologist named Auguste Mariette embarked on an ambitious mission that would cement his legacy as one of…
Fascinating, coming from Herodotus
Twin Pyramids of Lake Moeris, Egypt During his brief visit to Egypt in 490 BCE, Herodotus records a tale of long lost twin Egyptian pyramids topped with…
A 1,000-year-old helical stepwell with 8 entries is located in Walur Village, Selu Taluka, in the Parbhani District of Maharashtra, India.
Stepwells, or baoris, are ancient wells that were built in large numbers in various parts of India. They were particularly popular in arid regions where water was scarce….