Special thank-you to a specialist in ancient philosophy and history who alerted me to the recent excavation of an amazing floor mosaic which has lain buried under the ash and debris from the eruption of Vesuvius which engulfed the city of Pompeii and all of its remaining inhabitants in AD 79, and wh

At the ancient Egyptian temples of Philae, Nubians gave new life to a vanishing religious tradition

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In 1946, a remarkable archaeological find took place near Næstved, Denmark. It was the discovery of a well-preserved corpse known as the Porsmose Man, shedding light on the ancient civilizations that once inhabited the region. This article delves into the intriguing details surrounding the Porsmose Man’s remains and the insights they provide into Denmark’s rich history.

Researchers have uncovered the fossilized remains of an ape species named Anadoluvius turkae, which may challenge the prevailing theory that the ancestors of African apes and humans evolved exclusively in Africa.

SCIENTISTS have discovered the fossils of a “hobbit” that lived 700,000 years ago on an Indonesian island.

Unearthed on the edge of the Arctic, she is the only woman so far found in an otherwise all-male necropolis, buried in a cocoon of copper and fur.

Archaeologists sυggest that 7,000 years ago, a Chilean tribe began мυммifying children after they died of natυral arsenic poisoning.

Mummification of the deceased is a fairly well-known practice from ancient times. Most notably, the Egyptians utilized a mummification process that led to today’s cliché image of a deceased body covered in gauzy wrappings. The discovery of mummified remains in several caves in the Philippines represents a different type of mummy – the fire mummy.

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The “Petralona Man,” or “Petralona Archanthropυs” is a for 700,000 years old hυмan skυll foυnd in 1959. Since then, scientists have tried to locate the origin of…

Archaeologists in Rome have stumbled on a large marble head of Dionysus, also known as Bacchus, the ancient Roman god of wine, dance and fertility. …

Archaeologists in Rome have stumbled on a large marble head of Dionysus, also known as Bacchus, the ancient Roman god of wine, dance and fertility.

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Archaeologists in Mexico have unearthed a remarkable burial in the ancient ruins of Teotihuacan containing a 1,600-year-old skeleton of an upper-class woman with an elongated skull, stone encrusted te

Some instruments of torture, like the rack, were real. Others were probably made up to help perpetuate the myth of the medieval ‘Dark Ages.’