Author: Mary JL

Completely by accident in Jiangsu province in eastern China, the builders found an ancient burial place, where archaeologists have discovered a female mummy. According to experts, dumping refers to the time of the Ming Dynasty and he is at least 500 years According to experts, dumping refers to the time of the Ming Dynasty (ie…

Queen Nefertiti was the most powerful woman of her time and one of ancient Egypt’s most mysterious historical people. There is still much we don’t know about her and her sudden disappearance after being elevated to near-equal status by King Akhenaten. As previously mentioned on Ancient Pages, Queen Nefertiti was of the eighteenth dynasty, fourteenth…

The skeletal remains of a female ‘vampire’ were found in a 17th-century Polish graveyard – with a sickle across her neck to prevent her rising from the dead. Professor Dariusz Poliński from Nicholas Copernicus University headed the archaeological dig that led to the discovery of the remains, which were found wearing a silk cap and…

A hair sample from an ancient trophy head found buried in Peru reveals that the victim consumed a psychoactive plant prior to death. Thousands of years ago, a child in Peru was sacrificed as part of an ancient ritual, their head severed at the neck and made into a type of trophy. A new analysis…

It stood two-stories һіɡһ at the shoulder. Its tail was almost as long as a city bus. And it tipped the scales at some 65 tons — heavier than a fully loaded semi-truck. Meet Dreadnoughtus schrani, one of the most mаѕѕіⱱe land animals of all time. Other enormous dinosaurs are known due to a few…

Mummification of the deceased is a fairly well-known practice from ancient times. Most notably, the Egyptians utilized a mummification process that led to today’s cliché image of a deceased body covered in gauzy wrappings. The discovery of mummified remains in several caves in the Philippines represents a different type of mummy – the fire mummy.…

The story of Kap Dwa, which literally means “two-headed,” appears in British records in the early 20th century, as well as various voyage records between the 17th and 19th centuries. The legend says that Kap Dwa was a two-headed Patagonian giant, with a height of 12 feet or 3.66 meters, who once lived in the…

The loving embrace of a mother and her child lasts for 4,000 years, Chinese archaeologists reported after finding their interlocked skeletons. Archaeologists unearthed proof of a mother’s love in Qinghai province, China, when they discovered the 4,000-year-old skeletons of a mother and child still locked in a dying embrace. The two skeletons are frozen in…

Researchers in Japan are investigating the origins of a nightmarish, 300-year-old mummified “mermaid,” which has been worshipped for centuries due to its supposed medicinal properties. The haunting remains are most likely a gruesome amalgam of a monkey’s torso sewed onto a fish’s tail, potentially embellished with hair and nails from a human. Hiroshi Kinoshita, board…

Washington Square is one of New York’s liveliest parks, with NYU students, dog walkers, street performers, tourists and drug dealers crowding its nearly 10 acres of lush sidewalks and meeting spots. But just below all this bustling humanity lurks a shocking secret: 20,000 dead bodies. “What lies beneath that splendid, recently re-landscaped and renovated outdoor…