In the seventh year of her regency, however, she broke with tradition and had herself crowned Pharaoh of Egypt. The clean minimalism of Hatshepset’s funerary …
Göbekli Tepe is the oldest, biggest, and most mysterious archaeological site on the planet. Based on everything we know, Göbekli Tepe shouldn’t exist. Located over 20 years …
The ancient Egyptians were renowned for their worship of animals, and one of these was the baboon. In ancient Egyptian mythology, baboons are best known …
Archaeologists in Ecuador have made a fascinating, if rather grisly, discovery. In a burial mound dating back 2,100 years, the scientists found signs of a …
The surprisingly popular Museo de las Momias is filled with naturally preserved corpses, dried out and twisted into gruesome positions. Their wide-open mouths are enough …
The 1600-year-old skeleton of an upper-class woman whose skull was purposely deformed and teeth encrusted with mineral stones was found by archeologists near ancient Teotihuacan …
Archaeological Triumph: Preserved Shipwrecks Unlocking Secrets of Ancient Global Trade Routes Two ancient shipwrecks from the Ming Dynasty have provided archaeologists with over 100,000 relics. …
Using modern scanning techniques, experts at the British Museum have concluded that Ginger, one of the museum’s most popular Egyptian mummies, died a violent death …
References to an ancient 819-day Mayan calendar have long puzzled researchers, who now say they’ve solved a major mystery. Scientists have solved a longstanding mystery …
According to the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities, archaeologists discovered the remains of a huge Egyptian army from the fourteenth century BC in the Gulf of …
