Just metres from a busy train station in the heart of Paris, scientists have uncovered 50 graves in an ancient necropolis which offer a rare …

Simple observation would indicate that the so called Black Man is the Earths most diverse creature… He possesses all of the known types and colors …

The Step Pyramid of Djoser was built about 4,700 years ago with six layers above ground and a series of tunnels below. The Step Pyramid …

A 5,500-year-old mystery murder could be one step closer to being solved after forensic experts found Ginger, the Egyptian mummy housed at the British Museum, …

“It’s helped enormously to understand both the last moments of the site, but also the 100 years running up to it,” professor Andrew Wallace-Hadrill from …

A queen’s pet gazelle was readied for eternity with the same lavish care as a member of the royal family. In fine, blue-trimmed bandages and …

Archaeologists in Bulgaria uncovered the earliest golden items ever found in the 1970s, close to the present city of Varna, in a massive Copper Age …

Scotland is full of vivid, complex history, as is the case for other European compatriots. And no, it’s not all the violent headlines that Braveheart …

For centuries, the ‘ lost city of Atlantis has eluded explorers and is almost certainly the stuff of myth. Staggeringly, though, an ancient city that …

Queen Tiye via ancient-origins.net In Kemet, ancient Egypt’s history, Queen Tiye is regarded as the most influential woman of her time. She was the daughter …

S𝚊l𝚊m𝚊nc𝚊 C𝚊th𝚎𝚍𝚛𝚊l in S𝚙𝚊in 𝚍𝚊t𝚎s 𝚋𝚊ck 𝚊s 𝚎𝚊𝚛l𝚢 𝚊s th𝚎 12th 𝚊n𝚍 13th c𝚎nt𝚞𝚛i𝚎s 𝚊n𝚍 𝚋𝚘𝚊sts 𝚊 n𝚞m𝚋𝚎𝚛 𝚘𝚏 𝚘𝚛n𝚊t𝚎 c𝚊𝚛vin𝚐s – incl𝚞𝚍in𝚐 𝚊 m𝚢st𝚎𝚛i𝚘𝚞s …

The Atacama Desert in northern Chile is the driest non-polar desert on Earth, but no spot in the barren Atacama is more unearthly than kilometer marker …

In late September 2017, a 3,000-year-old mummy was found in an ancient tomb in the city of Xi’an, China. The creature has been classified as …

In the winter of 1993, while bulldozing salt from the Chehrabad Salt Mine (Iran), miners came across a body with long hair, a beard and …

Aphrodite and Adonis From the tenth book of Ovid’s Metamorphoses on the love story of Adonis and Aphrodite: That son of sister and grandfather, who …

  The oldest bottle of olive oil in the world was discovered in the ancient Roman town of Herculaneum, near Naples. This discovery is extremely …

Artefacts from the Roman towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum, buried in ash during an explosive Mount Vesuvius eruption, was a scale-out at the British Museum in 2013. But …

A well-preserved dinosaur embryo has been found inside a fossilized egg. The fossilized dinosaur embryo came from Ganzhou, Jiangxi Province in southern China and was …

During the Upper Paleolithic era, a multicellular organism was frozen almost the time in history when humans first set foot into North America. About 24,000 …

The 48 sets of remains unearthed in graves in the Taichung area are the earliest trace of human activity found in central Taiwan. The most …