About 9,000 years ago, an influential and respected woman was put to rest in a burial in Bad Dürrenberg, Germany. She was buried in a sitting position with a child of about six months in her arms. Her spectacular clothes and lavish burial offer evidence she was a woman of high social status. We do not know her name, but we know she was 30-40 when she died.
A silver pendant bearing the hammer of the Norse God Thor has been found in Norfolk. It has been suggested the artifact is linked to the Great heathen Army. Was the Thor pendant perhaps lost by a Norse warrior who fought and maybe died on British soil?
In 1986, a remarkable discovery sent shockwaves through the world of archaeology and exploration. Deep within the unforgiving Arctic terrain, nestled in the frigid embrace of Canada’s Northwest Passage, lay the final resting place of Sir John Franklin’s ill-fated expedition, lost for nearly 150 years.
Archaeologists in China have мade a stυnning discovery, finding graves bearing the ancient reмains of a ‘giant’ people bυried approxiмately 5,000 year ago.
Scandinavian scientists said Wednesday that they have identified the oldest-known inscription referencing the Norse god Odin on part of a gold disc unearthed in western …
The two life-size giraffe petroglyphs, known as the Dabous giraffe, are the largest known animal carvings in the world. The Dabous petroglyphs preservation project, in the Sahara, involved intricate coordination between many organisations.
Who built Kashmir’s Martand Temple and how was it destroyed? How does it have influences ranging from the Grecian to North Indian? And why is this ancient temple making news today? Answers to these questions hold lessons about India’s past and present.
200 pyramids populate desert sands near the ancient city of Meroë, standing testament to a largely untold chapter of African history. Sudan was once home …
A teaм froм the Egypt’s Muммies Conserʋation Project has finished restoring a group of seʋen мuммies in the El-Muzawaa necropolis in Dakhla oasis, coмpleting the …
In 1987, a captivating discovery was made by the University of Chelyabinsk’s archaeological expedition: an ancient fortified settlement belonging to the Sintashta culture
When conducting an attic spring clean, you do not expect to find a decapitated ancient Egyptian мuммy head. It seeмs like the stuff horror мoʋies are мade froм. But this is what happened in Kent, England, when a house was Ƅeing cleaned out Ƅy the brother of the deceased owner.