For hundreds of years, the Anga tribe in the remote, […]

The enduring ɩeɡасу of ancient conflicts often resides in the […]

Probably the wife of Amyntas I, king of Macedon. 5th Century B.C., Aigai, Greece. Βuried with a  gold mask  over her face,  gold earrings , a  headband  over her hair and a necklace of gold beads. Her dress was fastened with silver pins, termina

Vasa is a Swedish warship built between 1626 and 1628. Its rather peculiar story has gone down in history: despite being one of the Swedish navy’s biggest achievements and among the most spectacular warships ever built, Vasa sank within twenty minutes of setting sail, just 1,300 m (1,400 yd) into he

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Around 4,800 years ago, a young mother died near the Taiwanese coast. When she was lifted from her grave as part of a scientific

An ancient Greek crown, much like this one, was found under a man’s bed in England. Credit: Tilo 2005/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 2.0 In Somerset, England, a British …

Eclipsed in western pop culture by the war horse, elephants were devastating in combat and used for millennia as far west as the Mediterranean.

The remains of a Stone Age-era dog and his master were found buried together at an excavation site in Sweden, with clear photos now showing the ancient canine bones, reports said. The dog, believed…

The a,cient Roman pools, a group of basins, its walls built with square-shaped stones bearing mostly Roman inscriptions and letters,

A 5,000-year-old Egyptian garment provides a glimpse into the fashions of yester-yester-yesteryear.

Dear readers, this post is a bit on the educational side since i’d like to show you one of the more famous tombs at the Staglieno Cemetery…

An exhibit at the Minneapolis Institute of Art displays hundreds of ancient Egyptian objects submerged for a millennium and reveals the source of the Pharaoh’s power.

Ancient shoes were discovered in a jar in a temple in Egypt.

No sword is quite like Viking swords. During the period […]

Alison Abbott considers an extraordinary assemblage of human remains: some rediscovered, some re-analysed. Alison Abbott considers an extraordinary assemblage of human remains: some rediscovered, some re-analysed.

A Minotaur sculpture with a human torso and a bull’s […]

The ‘curse of the pharaohs’ is alleged to be cast upon anyone who disturbs the mummy of an Ancient Egyptian, especially a pharaoh. This curse, which does…

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Probes taken by South Korean experts will reveal lifestyle of this Arctic boy from 800 years ago.