A 500-Year-Old Skeleton Wearing Thigh-High Leather Boots Was Unearthed In London
Leather was a highly-valuable material during the Tudor era in the U.K., which makes this discovery all the more unusual. The skeleton of a man that is…
40-Million-Year-Old Tools Were Discovered From In a Gold Mine From California
Miners unearthed hundreds of stone artifacts and human remains deep inside their tunnels at Table Mountain and other areas in the gold mining region in the mid-nineteenth…
The sacred boat: Ships of the gods of ancient Egypt
A sacred boat, in Ancient Egypt, was a river boat used as a means of transportation at funerals and in the religious sphere, elevated to a symbol of…
The method of mummification is so strange that it is hard to believe that the body of a dog is mummified inside the tree
Meet “Stuckie” — The Mummified Dog Who Has Been Stuck In A Tree For Over 50 Years20 years after it was wedged in when “chasing a raccoon”…
Archaeologists Unearth Last Ice Age Findings In Palawan Cave
Archaeologists from UP Diliman (UPD) and the National Museum, and leaders and members of the indigenous Pala’wan community unearthed new discoveries dating back to the last glacial…
The Mummy Ankhefenmut: 3,000-Year-Old Mummy That Everyone Erroneously Thought Was Female
A BEAUTIFUL EXHIBIT ON ANCIENT Egypt at the Albany Institute of History and Art is the current home of a 3,000-year-old mummy called Ankhefenmut, whose true identity…
German archaeologists froze a medieval children’s burial with a dog with liquid nitrogen
Archaeologists have begun a conservational thaw of the 7th century grave of an elite boy that in a scientific first, was removed from its find site in a single…
Woolly mammoth and rhino amongst Ice Age remains found in UK cave
The bones of woolly mammoths and woolly rhinoceros are amongst the animal remains discovered in a cave near Plymouth, UK. The cave was uncovered during the construction…
Three-fingered ‘Alien Mummy’ Dug Up In Peru Could Be New Species Of Human, DNA Test Suggests
A Brit researcher claims he has carried out DNA tests on the mysterious Nazca alien mummy – and the results could “be the most important discovery of the 21st…
A strange 3,000-year-old wooden toe gives leading Swiss scientists a headache
It is likely to be one of the oldest prosthetic devices in human history: Together with other experts, Egyptologists from the University of Basel have reexamined an…