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An archaeologist has claimed that he has found the mummy of Nefertiti, the wife of King Akhenaton and queen of Egypt, who was renowned for her beauty. An archaeologist has claimed that he has found the mummy of Nefertiti, the wife of King Akhenaton and queen of Egypt, who was renowned for her beauty, according…

THE discovery of a mysterious mass grave containing 80 bodies which was discovered on a building site has sparked demands for answers. Some of the skeletons were found with their hands tied behind their backs at West End Farm near Buckingham. The unnerving discovery was made during archaeological work on the site ahead of the…

Construction workers employed in road building near the Onon River in the Khentii province of Mongolia, have discovered a mass grave containing the remains of many dozens of human corpses lying upon a large rudimentary stone structure. The team of scientists affiliated with the University of Beijing has concluded that the numerous skeletons ʙuʀιᴇᴅ on…

An ancient Egyptian mummy with two heads, belonging to a human child and a crocodile, has been photographed for the first time on July 6, after more than a century of its “exile” ordered by the Ottoman Sultan Abdulhamid II. Turkish officials has recently issued permit for daily Hürriyet to film the only mummy kept…

An ancient couple are being likened to ‘Romeo and Juliet’ after being uncovered buried in ground next to the remains of two horses ‘pulling them on a chariot into the afterlife’. The incredible 5,000-year-old grave was found in the Karaganda region of Kazakhstan. Experts said the couple could have been together in their lifetime –…

TWO lovers from 4,000 years ago have been found buried facing each other in a remarkable grave in Kazakhstan. The ancient Romeo and Juliet were believed to have been aged 16 or 17 when they died and archaeologists say it’s likely they were from noble families. The prehistoric couple were buried gazing at each other…

The dead were not buried until they had decomposed to skeletal remains. The skeletons were then dismantled and bones of similar types were buried together, say Danish archaeologists researching a burial site in an ancient town in southern Jordan. “It might sound a bit like something from a splatter movie,” Moritz Kinzel, a researcher at…

Modern-day Mexico City is built on top of centuries of previous settlements, so it’s not unusual for ancient tombs to occasionally be uncovered beneath the city’s streets. It is, however, strange to find 10 ancient skeletons arranged in a spiral with their bodies interlocked, as archaeologists recently did. The 2,400-year-old burial was discovered during salvage…

Archaeologists in Peru have unearthed eight centuries-old mummies at a site in the country’s capital, an important find that experts say could point to a colonial-era cemetery. Archaeologists on Tuesday were hard at work in Lima’s Park of Legends on the coast of central Peru, carefully cleaning the ancient preserved corpses found under the site,…

About 3,700 years ago, a man and a woman were buried together in the southeast of the Iberian Peninsula. Their tomb was an ovoid jar beneath the floor of a grand hall in an expansive hilltop complex known as La Almoloya, in what is now Murcia, Spain. It’s one of many archaeological sites associated with…