She’s appeared in dozens of Hollywood movies and at least a bazillion books, from biographies to historical novels to science fiction. (Yes, Cleopatra in Space is totally a thing.) Always …

y crawling into the suit through its central aperture and subsequently sealing it shut, the hunter ensured complete waterproofing using the sealskin material. Looks like …

Cleopatra VII, Philopator Panagiotis Constantinou (CC BY-NC-SA) Cleopatra VII (l. c. 69-30 BCE, r. 51-30 BCE) was the last ruler of Egypt before it was annexed as a …

For those who have been following my blog, know that I visited Egypt first in 2010 and been an expat in this North African country …

Scientists from Germany, the UK, and Australia detect family relationships in a 4,600-year-old stone age burial / Publication in PNAS DNA extracted from bones and …

  Date: 19th c. Geography: Cross River region, Nigeria. Materials: Human skull, antelope skin, basketry, lead, hair. Quai Branly Museum, Paris, France. Masks of this …

In 1906 archaeologist Edward Ayrton discovered and excavated three tombs in Egypt’s “Valley of the Kings”. When he entered tomb KV 50 he found a …

The conservation team used radiology to assess the mummy. The mummy from 2300 B.C. was in a sorry state when he arrived at Emory in …

The warrior recovered by an archaeologist from the University of Jagiellonian in Krakow, buried with his sword and gold decorations, was located in an unbroken …

This is the former cannibal mountain tribe who amputate the fingers of women to appease the dead and smoke ancestors daily to preserve their mummified …

Heads of statues belonging to the Greek gods ‘Eros’, ‘Dionysus’ and ‘Heracles’ were found in the excavations in the ancient city of Aizanoi in Turkey. …

She is 42,000 years old, and has come a long way for her Australian debut. First, she was recovered from the frozen mud in Siberia …

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  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 …

The gown and bonnet are replicas of the original clothes in which he was buried. In this June 28, 2010 photo, the mummified remains of …

When Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD, it buried not only city of Pompeii, but a number of other nearby towns as well. One of them …

It is guessed that phallic symbols on the streets point towards nearest brothel, to direct foreign sailors who may be heavily intoxicated and/or unable to …

The Ethiopian bible, which was written on goat skin, was the world’s first illustrated Christian Bible and was written around the early 5th Century CE. …

On July 10, 1834, William Beswick excavated a pit on his land in Gristhorpe, North Yorkshire, England. What he found left him quite astonished. Beswick …