Author: Mary JL

A mummy dating back to the 16th century which was discovered in Ecuador in 1949 is now being examined by French pathologist Philippe Charlier. Experts say that the relatively well-preserved cardboard-like figure could hold clues to the history of diseases as his bones contain traces of rheumatoid arthritis. Dr Charlier, who has studied the remains…

Even a century after his tomb’s discovery, questions still linger over the teenage pharaoh’s life, loves, successors, and death. From the earliest days of archaeology in Egypt, the Valley of the Kings has exerted an irresistible allure. The famed cemetery was the burial place of royals during the golden age of the 18th, 19th, and…

A medieval warrior whose face was split open in one of Europe’s most savage battles has been brought back to life in a stunning recreation, 660 years after his gruesome death. Experts reconstructed the fighter’s visage after his skull was recovered from a mass grave outside Visby on the Swedish island of Gotland. It was…

The decapitated head of an ancient Egyptian mummy found in an attic in Kent, England, has been put under a CT scan, revealing it belonged to a woman that lived at least 2,000 years ago. The head is believed to have been brought back from Egypt as a souvenir in the 19th century, researchers from…

Archeologists recently uncovered an example of a “vampire” burial in Poland with a sickle around the body’s neck to keep it from rising from the grave. But there are other ways humans prevented the undead “vampires” from tormenting the living, one of which was placing a rock or brick in their mouth, experts told Insider.…

A 70 million-year-old oviraptorosaur egg that had been forgotten in a Chinese museum storeroom contains the most well-preserved dinosaur embryo ever discovered. A fossilised dinosaur embryo discovered in southern China may be the most well-preserved ever uncovered. The dinosaur egg containing the embryo had languished for more than a decade in a storeroom in Yingliang…

In 1868 the Museum of Zagreb in Croatia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, acquired an Egyptian mummy of a woman. Her previous owner had removed her wrappings but held on to them. She had been an ordinary person, not royalty or of the priestly class. Her wrappings, however, held a fascinating puzzle. There was…

A mummy, fully bound in ropes and with its hands covering its face, has been discovered in an underground tomb in Peru. Archaeologists from the National University of San Marcos found the mummy in good condition in Cajamarquilla, a significant site 15.5 miles inland from the coastal city and capital Lima, Peru. The mummy is…

The skull of an Ancient Greek girl with a ceramic flower wreath has been discovered. These remains have been dated circa 400 to 300 B.C. This skull currently resides in The New Archaeological Museum of Patras in Greece. This fossilized cranium is among a featured collection of the pates of women and girls found in…

In the small hours from the 5th to the 6th of June 2016, the four mummies owned by the National Archaeology Museum of Madrid were moved to a hospital to be studied, using the most advanced scanning technologies. During these works, forensics found a secret that remained hidden for more than 2,500 years: The mysterious…