Scientists have uncovered evidence that ancient communities in China and Southeast Asia were creating mummies through smoke-drying techniques as early as 10,000 years ago. This discovery pushes back the timeline of deliberate mummification practices by thousands of years, predating the famous methods used in Chile and Egypt. Burial sites scattered across six countries revealed this
Egyptian excavators working in Sharqia Governorate have pulled a massive sandstone tablet from the earth that scholars are calling the most important linguistic discovery in more than a century. The stone bears a complete hieroglyphic version of the Canopus Decree, issued by Pharaoh Ptolemy III in 238 BC. Standing over four feet tall and weighing
It was February 1945 in the mangrove morasses of Ramree Island along the coast of Burma. It was here where a dark page of World War II was written. When Japanese soldiers withdrew from a losing fight with Allied soldiers, they trudged into a labyrinth of mud and water that would spell doom into their
A woman’s remains discovered decades ago in a Belgian cave have finally received a face, a name, and recognition for challenging what researchers thought they knew about ancient Europeans. Mos’anne lived roughly 10,500 years ago along the Meuse River, hunting and gathering during a time when ice sheets had retreated but farming hadn’t yet arrived.
On September 10, 1945 in a dry town in Colorado called Fruita, a farmer by the name of Lloyd Olsen was trying to prepare an evening meal for his family with the help of a chicken. What then followed was no ordinary barnyard mishap. When Olsen’s axe chopped off the head of a young Wyandotte
Archaeologists in northern Iraq have uncovered a remarkable collection of ancient tombs, recently exposed by the country’s prolonged drought. Located along the edges of the Mosul Dam reservoir in Duhok province, these tombs are believed to date back more than 2,300 years to the Hellenistic or Hellenistic-Seleucid period. The discovery was announced by Bekas Brefkany,