Three 1000-year-old mummies with weird shape disclosed ancient violence
One secret of the past that can be revealed through the study of skulls and skeletons is how frequent violence was amongst our ancestors. However, with their…
Drug remaining in Israeli mass grave, showing a history of drug trafficking since ancient times
Excavations at an ancient burial pit in Israel discovered the world’s earliest evidence of drug use, experts say. The hundreds of burials unearthed in Tel Yehud date…
Found a 6000-year-old woman’s skull has revealed the legend of “short, dark-skinned people” lived in Taiwan
The ancient Taiwanese legend of ‘short, dark skinned’ people who lived in remote mountains and suddenly disappeared has been confirmed to be true following the discovery of…
The Bronze Age Britons usurped land by using a mysterious ancestor mummification
LONDON — Mummification seems to have been widely practiced throughout Britain in the Bronze Age, archaeologists from the University of Sheffield said in a study analysing skeletons…
World first discovered: The skeleton of a pregnant Egyptian woman was unearthed in Egypt
At first, archaeologists thought they were scanning the mummy of an ancient Egyptian priest named Hor-Djehuty. Then, in the body’s abdomen, images revealed what appeared to be…
Secret movement of ancient European disclosed during unearth of mass grave aged 1300 year BC
In Anglo-Saxon times, more than three-quarters of the ancestry of people in parts of England came from recent migrants from Northern Europe. The traditional view, based…
The 2000-year-old fragmentary parts of Hercules body was found during excavations in the ancient Greek city
Archaeologists exploring an ancient Greek city have uncovered a large, 2,000-year-old statue depicting Hercules, a well-known figure from Greco-Roman mythology, the Greek Ministry of Culture and Sports…
Found relics of a female deity who lost-long time ago in mass graves in Peru
Construction workers were digging trenches to install gas pipelines when they discovered a mass grave containing the bodies of 12 people The remains of children and adults…
Surprised with the 7000-year-old mass grave with many headless bodies as of sacrificial victims
Archaeologists investigating an ancient Neolithic settlement in Slovakia have discovered the bruised remains of about 35 people, many of them teenagers, who appear to have been dismembered….
What’s inside of “pink sarcophagus” of Head of the Treasury under Ramses the Great that was dig by Tomb robbers
The pink granite coffin of a high-ranking Egyptian nobleman has been found in an ancient tomb near Cairo where it has rested for thousands of years. It…