Archaeologists discover hundreds of 4,500-year-old tombs in China Archaeologists have found more than 300 tombs dating back around 4,500 years in central China’s Henan Province, which are of great significance to studying the burial system and social structure of prehistoric China. Located in the Suyang relics site in the city of Luoyang, the tomb complex … Read more
Additional Mummies Uncovered Near Vizier’s Tomb in Luxor Luxor, Egypt, Dec 29 (EFE).- A group of Egyptologists from Spain have discovered two tombs that housed almost 60 mummies at site in the ancient Egyptian city of Luxor. “The most important thing this year is the discovery of two tombs, almost six meters deep,” made up … Read more
Possible Funerary Structures Uncovered at Peru’s Huaca Bandera Culture Ministry’s researchers digging at Huaca Bandera —located in the district of Pacora in Lambayeque region— have found architectural structures of the Mochica elite, as well as human remains linked to important ancestral iconography. The head of the Decentralized Culture Directorate (DDC) in Lambayeque, Julio Fernandez, reported that … Read more
Humans Have Been Wearing Bear Skins for at Least 300,000 Years Humans have been using bear skins to protect themselves from cold weather for at least 300,000 years. This is suggested by cut marks on the metatarsal and phalanx of a cave bear discovered at the Lower Paleolithic site of Schöningen in Lower Saxony, Germany. … Read more
2,000-year-old Mayan civilization found in the north of Guatemala Archaeologists have discovered the ruins of a vast civilization that was completely unknown to science until now. With the help of airborne Lidar, scientists have found close to 1,000 archaeological sites spread across 650 square miles and linked by an immense causeway system. This civilization built … Read more
Heads of Several Greek Gods Found During Excavations at Aizanoi During the ongoing archaeological excavations in the ancient city of Aizanoi in the Çavdarhisar district of the western province of Kütahya, which is on the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List, the heads of the Greek mythology gods Eros and Dionysus and the demigod Herakles have come to light. Another find … Read more
Characterizing red pigment in ancient bone samples in Peru to reveal their sources Up to a millennium ago, the Chincha people in what is now Peru decorated their ancestors’ remains with red pigment, sometimes finger painting their skulls as part of a ritual intended to give the dead a new kind of social life. In … Read more
Rare Nativity by Renaissance master saved for UK just in time for Christmas A painting of the Nativity made in the 16th century has been saved by the UK government as a “Christmas gift for the nation”. The Nativity by Baldassare Tommaso Peruzzi (1481–1536), valued at £277,990, had an export bar placed on it by the … Read more
7-foot-long arthropods commanded the sea 470 million years ago, ‘exquisite’ fossils show Exquisitely preserved fossils in Morocco suggest that some of the earliest arthropods were nearly 7 feet (2 meters) long — gigantic in comparison with the shrimps, insects and spiders that are descendants of these early invertebrates, according to a new study. Researchers made … Read more
Saint Anthony of Padua revealed in stunning facial approximation A team of international researchers has revealed a facial approximation of what Saint Anthony of Padua may have looked like. A newly released image shows what Saint Anthony of Padua, a Portuguese priest who lived and died in the 13th century, may have looked like. Using CT (computed … Read more