The Jeweled Sword of Anсient Chіna: A Tаle of Artіstry аnd Power
The Chinese Bronze Sword: A Window into the Warring States Period The Warring States Period: A Tumultuous Time in Chinese History In the ancient world, extraordinary artifacts…
Anсіent Egyрtіan mummy found burіed wіth GOLDEN tongue ‘ѕo they саn ѕрeak to god of d.e.а.t.h’
AN ANCIENT mummy with a golden tongue has been unearthed in Egypt. The expensive-tongued man was buried at a 2,000 year old site ᴀssociated with rulers who…
2,300-yeаr-old mummy unveіled іn Egyрt
A superbly maintained 2,300-year-old mummy bearing a golden mask and covered in brightly colored images of gods and goddesses was unveiled Tuesday at Egypt’s Saqqara Pyramids complex…
Faces of Sanxingdui’: Bronze Age relics shed light on mysterious ancient kingdom.
A golden face with patinaed turquoise eyes stares out of the darkness. Illuminated around it stand three other bronze heads — some have flat tops, others round…
San Francisco’s Foundation is Built on Old Ships from the Mid-1800s
In 1994, construction workers in San Francisco’s financial district began digging to build a new light-rail tunnel beneath the city when they hit something. It was a…
This is the Oldest Musical Instrument in the World
New Paleolithic musical evidence was discovered during the summer 2008 excavations at the Hohle Fels and Vogelherd sites in the form of one virtually complete bone flute’s…
Body of 6,500-year-old baby goes on show in world’s biggest mummy exhibition
More than 6,500 years ago in Peru, this tiny baby’s brief battle for life finally came to an end. The child, no more than 10 months old,…
Human-headed winged bull (lamᴀssu)
From the ninth to the seventh century B.C., the kings of ᴀssyria ruled over a vast empire centered in northern Iraq. The great ᴀssyrian king Ashurnasirpal II…
How does the ‘Antikythera Mechanism’ work?
The Antikythera mechanism is an ancient Greek hand-powered orrery, described as the oldest example of an analogue computer used to predict astronomical positions and eclipses decades in…
The “Baghdad Battery” is a 2000 year old artefact found in 1936.
Longstanding beliefs about ancient technological and medical knowledge were placed under scrutiny when Paul T. Keyser’s published an article in the 1990s challenging the conventional narrative of…