Author: Mary JL

New technology has allowed researchers to reconstruct the face of the ancient woman – dubbed “the Mysterious Lady” – who apparently died of cancer two millennia ago. She is thought to be the world’s first documented pregnant mummy after remains of a foetus were found in her womb. Dr. Wojciech Ejsmond, an archeologist from the…

New archeological discoveries are made all the time, but none seem to provoke as much widespread fascination as the mummies and artifacts of Ancient Egypt. Recently, eight ancient Egyptian mummies were discovered near the Great Pyramids of Giza during an archeological expedition tasked with excavating the southeast corner of the Pyramid of King Amenhoth II…

New archaeological evidence from Egyptian mummies shows the practice of having lower back tattoos is actually more than three millennia old even though it may seem like an early 21st century fad popularized by low-rise-jeans clad celebrities. Researchers Anne Austin and Marie-Lys Arnette at the New Kingdom site of Deir el-Medina (1550 B.C. to 1070…

A new study suggests that nearly everything archaeologists thought they knew about the 5,300-year-old corpse’s preservation was wrong. In September 1991, German hikers exploring the Tyrolean Alps between Italy and Austria made a shocking discovery: a human corpse. Though officials initially assumed that the man had died recently, archaeologists later revealed that the body—which had…

Researches related to dinosaurs have always drawn a lot of interest among the public. Within this background, we noticed viral social media posts claiming that scientists had recently found the most well-preserved dinosaur fossil and it can be even labelled “dinosaur mummy” also. However, our investigation proved this was part of an April fools’ joke.…

In the early 1900s, the school next door to Great Yarmouth Minster received a special gift which had been found in an elaborate tomb in Egypt: the mummified remains of royalty. The embalmed corpse was donated by a well-wisher and lay in its casket at the very height of Egyptomania, when the world fell under…

“May this tusk root out the lice of the hair and the beard.” That’s the oldest known sentence ever written and scientists found it engraved in an ivory comb. The Caaananite script appears on a double-edged comb from approximately 1700 BCE. From The Guardian: “The inscription is very human,” said Prof Yosef Garfinkel, an archaeologist…

Archeologists in Sweden have uncovered a stockpile of silver that they believe is approximately 1,000 years old. The items — which include torque-style neck rings, arm rings and coins — were found inside a ceramic pot in Viggbyholm, Täby, a “Viking Age settlement” located outside Stockholm, according to a press release from The Archaeologists at…

Scientists now know that a massive Yucatan asteroid struck the earth 66 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous Period, ultimately causing most species of dinosaur to go extinct. It was the sudden change in climate that accompanied this disastrous astronomical collision that made the earth unlivable for these cold-blooded reptiles, leading to…

Believe it or not, fake eyes have existed for thousands of years. Besides improving the physical appearance of the patient needing the artificial eye, fake eyes also prevent tissues in the eye socket from overgrowing and prevent foreign debris from entering the eye without a bandage or eyepatch. The discovery of this eye reveals the…