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 …

Practically everyone has seen the iconic images of the Easter Island heads. What you may not have known is that those Easter Island heads actually have hidden buried …

Scientists in Peru have managed to recreate the face of a female Peruvian leader who died 1,700 years ago, with the use of 3D printing. …

A skull unearthed in East China might indicate that there is another branch to the human family tree, scientists have revealed. A group of scientists …

Agiant dinosaur measuring over 80 feet long has been discovered in a man’s backyard in Pombal, Portugal. The man first noticed fossil remains when having …

Mummification is a practice that has existed since ancient times. The Egyptians mummies – their heavily bandaged and embalmed corpses- were amongst the most popular. …

It would have been a far more effective tank, at least in my opinion. The Tiger I, for its time, was a really great tank. …

Although human sacrifices and other heartbreakings are not without evoking a certain fantasy of character, the term “eccentric” does not characterize the facetious Mayans here …

This study begins by examining the archaeological and documentary evidence for lavatories (toilets) and foul-water drains in ancient Mesopotamian dwelling houses. Leonard and Katharine Woolley …

This cat coffin has a gilded head and is painted with a collar around its neck, a necklace holding an Eye of Horus protective amulet, …

During the 19th century Inuits in Greenland would have entertained polite company in their settlements while wearing a thong made of seal fur. Traditionally known …

The Tully Monster Was An Ancient Lamprey For decades, the Tullimonstrum (or Tully Monster) flummoxed scientists. Considering the artist’s rendering featured here, it’s not that hard to …

The custom of the harem for VIPs has long been practiced in many traditional societies. First, the Aras, whose language is whence the name “harem” …

The ancient mummy of a mysterious young woman, known as the Ukok Princess, is finally returning home to the Altai Republic this month. Reconstruction of …

Old Croghan Man is the name given to a well-preserved Iron Age bog body that was discovered in County Offaly, Ireland. The bog body derives …

Wadi Al-Hitan, Egypt – Egypt has unveiled what it said is the Middle East’s first museum dedicated to fossils that showcases an early form of …

Archaeologists from the national institute of anthropology and history (inah) have identified evidence of ritual beheading during excavations of a pyramidal structure at the maya …

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Archaeologists have resumed excavations at Zeleniy Yar , a remote site near the Arctic Circle known to the indigenous Nenets people as “the end of …

Museum of the Mummies, Guanajuato, Mexico Disinterred Bodies Discovered Time passed and the cholera epidemic was mostly forgotten. In the 1870s the local government imposed …