The Inca Maiden mummy suffered from a lung function at the time of her sacrificial death, say scientists using a new forensic technique.

Egyptian Mummification, the methods of embalming, or treating the dead body this process is depending on removing all moisture from the body.

The discovery of the tomb of King Tutankhamun in 1922 by Howard Carter and his archaeological team was highly significant due to the intact nature of the tomb.

Instagram account geopizza shares the most known cityscapes in the world with then vs. now photos and here are some of the most…

The story of Polyxena, the beautiful daughter of the Trojan king Priam. Polyxena is the beautiful daughter of the Trojan king Priam. The sister of Hector, …

Detailed study of the wider contexts of the burials at Sutton Hoo and Vendel and the helmets helps to redraw the map of late Iron-Age Northern Europe

What did King Tut look like? The History of Tutankhamun Almost exactly 100 years ago, British archaeologist Howard Carter discovered a stairwell in the Valley of the…

A team of archaeologists in Saqqara recently unearthed the pyramid of Queen Neith — who they didn’t even know existed until now. Almost exactly 100 years

Offering human sacrifices to appease the gods, constructing pyramids with mind-boggling mathematical precision and participating in fierce matches of Poc-a-Toc with the possibility of being beheaded at the end of the game, was just another day in the life of the ancient Maya.  They are a civilization that has inhabited parts of Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador and Honduras for thousands of years, building empires which thrived until approximately the 12th…

The excavation of the beast reverses narratives of ISIS destruction

Medieval Knights steel bike from Chateau-Gaillard castle They say that King Richard himself chose Chateau-Gaillard for construction and actively participated in the development of the project. In 1852, Gaillard castle ruins were declared a historic monument of France. In May 2008, archaeologists from the University of Bristol, doing excavations at the castle Chateau-Gaillard (France), made ​​a sensational discovery. What was the amazement of archaeologists, when carefully managed to clean up the extracted pieces – it was part lain in the ground for almost nine centuries of knightly bike! A bicycle in the twelfth century, hard to believe, but there’s no doubt about the authenticity of burial.

Mummified remains of a woman buried 900 years ago have been found with her eyelashes and hair still intact.

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Located in modern Turkey, Göbekli Tepe is one of the most important archaeological sites in the world. The discovery of this stunning 10,000 year old site in the 1990s CE sent shock waves through…

Workers at a coal quarry in a small Serbian village have unearthed the ancient remains of a well-preserved Roman ship.

People think that the Mayans might have created QR codes thousands of years before we could even scan them.

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Mystery surrounds the skeleton of a mysterious creature that washed up on a Scottish beach during Storm Ciara.

Exploring the depths of the sea has always been fascinating to humans. It’s no wonder that tales of sunken ships with treasures and piles of gold coins have captured our imagination for centuries. The thought of ɩost riches ɩying at the bottom of the sea is a thriɩɩing prospect for many, but for some, it’s more than just a fantasy. There are actual stories of treasure hunters who have discovered sunken ships with treasure troves that had been ɩost for centuries.

A family of Inuit hunters believed to be frozen for over 500 years are “North America’s best preserved mummies,” according to news reports.