This cat coffin has a gilded head and is painted with a collar around its neck, a necklace holding an Eye of Horus protective amulet, …

During the 19th century Inuits in Greenland would have entertained polite company in their settlements while wearing a thong made of seal fur. Traditionally known …

The Tully Monster Was An Ancient Lamprey For decades, the Tullimonstrum (or Tully Monster) flummoxed scientists. Considering the artist’s rendering featured here, it’s not that hard to …

The custom of the harem for VIPs has long been practiced in many traditional societies. First, the Aras, whose language is whence the name “harem” …

The ancient mummy of a mysterious young woman, known as the Ukok Princess, is finally returning home to the Altai Republic this month. Reconstruction of …

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 derives …

Wadi Al-Hitan, Egypt – Egypt has unveiled what it said is the Middle East’s first museum dedicated to fossils that showcases an early form of …

Archaeologists from the national institute of anthropology and history (inah) have identified evidence of ritual beheading during excavations of a pyramidal structure at the maya …

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Archaeologists have resumed excavations at Zeleniy Yar , a remote site near the Arctic Circle known to the indigenous Nenets people as “the end of …

Museum of the Mummies, Guanajuato, Mexico Disinterred Bodies Discovered Time passed and the cholera epidemic was mostly forgotten. In the 1870s the local government imposed …

For years, the origins of the Guanches have been a mystery, with some people speculating they could have been descendants of Atlanteans. The Canary Islands’ …

In 2018, miners working in northern Canada discovered a small, tannish-brown, grapefruit-sized lump. This mass of claws and limbs appeared to be made of fossilized …

A study on a Chinese Buddha statue carried out in the Netherlands revealed a startling discovery – the statue contains the mummified remains of a …

Mummy hair reveals that young victims were heavy users of coca and alcohol. Three Inca mummies found near the lofty summit of in Volcán Llullaillaco …

A third infant burial was found nearby. The twin infants’ double burial was unearthed in Krems am Wachtberg, Austria. (Image credit: OREA ÖAW) An ancient grave …

PILING UP HEAPS OF SKULLS of your vanquished foes represented the apogee of barbaric warlord behavior.This ancient practice survived in some cultures well into the …

Over a decade ago, the remains of three children were found, remarkably preserved, atop the summit of Volcan Llullaillaco in Argentina. In 2012, an analysis …

The mummy had been given artificial eyes, made of white and black stones. The eyebrows are real hair and she wears a wig. Her body …

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