The skeleton of the 50-year-old woman, laid to rest in a ceremonial ritual around 1,000 years ago in the ancient civilisation of Pachacamac, near Lima, Peru, will go on display at a French museum.

Last night, Egypt has presented a distinguished historical event through the procession of Pharaonic royal mummies, which travelled from the Egyptian Mu

Téviec would be a rather anonymous island located somewhere in Brittany, France, if it wasn’t for its great archaeological value thanks to the many finds – mainly from the Mesolithic Period – that have been excavated there. These finds include the skeletons of two women, dated between 6740 and 5680

An Israeli amateur diver found a large, 900-year-old sword dating back to the Crusades at the bottom of Mediterranean Sea last week, Israeli researchers said on Monday. The diver, identified as Shlomi Katzin from Atlit, Israel, discovered the weapon on Saturday among other artifacts on the Mediterranean seabed, including ancient stone anchors, other anchors made […]

A Nazca skull with long braids Hair still attached to its own skull, measures 2800 mm (2.80m.) in length, possibly belonged to a priestess of …

One might find it curious that we divide the hours into 60 minutes and the days into 24 hours – why not a multiple of 10 or 12?

Ancient India is one of the world’s oldest civilizations with a rich history of development. Discoveries of ancient texts in Sanskrit have surprised researchers.

A pair of mummified knees are most likely those of the famously beautiful spouse of Pharoah Ramses II, who died around 1250BC, say scientists

Here are several sculptural proofs that suggest that Ancient Indians knew the science of Fertilization without a microscope.

There is ample scientific evidence which points towards the existence of entrances leading into the Sphinx, where cavities, chambers and tunnels exist.

The unfinished Step Pyramid of Horus Sekhemkhet at Saqqara

Elongated skulls are usually explained in terms of head-binding or artificial cranial deformation.

Noah’s Ark is the boat that saved a generation of humans and animals when the God of Israel decided to destroy the human race by sending a great flood upon the earth. The story shares many elements…

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 …