How do you put a 13-ton hat on a giant statue? That’s what a team of researchers is trying to figure out with their study of Easter Island statues and the red hats that sit atop some of them. “Lots of people have come up with ideas, but we are the first to come up with an idea that uses archaeological evidence,” said Sean W. Hixon, graduate student in anthropology, Penn State.
‘Archaeological nirvana’ has been unearthed in ‘Britain’s Pompeii’, a stilt village occupied for less than a year before it burnt out, over a tragic summer day 2,850 years ago.
The discovery of hair oп 2,000-year-old mυmmies has provided valυable […]
The Colossi of Memnon are a pair of giant statues made of stone that are located in the Theban Necropolis in Luxor, Upper Egypt.
Tiye was the Great Royal Wife of the ancient Egyptian equivalent to Louis XIV – Amenhotep III. Her son Akhenaten, was one of the biggest causes of scandal during the pharaohs’ time in Egypt.
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SCIENTISTS have discovered two ancient artifacts made from metal that’s not from Earth. The unusual discovery was made 61 years after a hoard of Iberian…
THE MOTHER of all shipwrecks is finally set to be salvaged, with recovery teams starting the removal of artefacts in April. The Spanish San Jose Galleon sank off the Colombian port of Car…
What’s scarier than a tyrannosaur? Three tyrannosaurs. That’s simple, undeniable math. The question is whether or not the tyrant dinosaurs ever prowled together in real life. Up until now, the evidence has been equivocal. But a trackway found in British Columbia finally provides firmer ground for speculation on the social lives of these celebrated carnivores. […]
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On one side, a robust range of leading archeologists seem perplexed on how the study ever made it past peer review and into print in…
Accepted historical accounts claim that Cleopatra, the last active pharaoh of ancient Egypt, committed suicide.
In 2020, the first ever scientific underwater excavation ever undertaken in the Black Sea was started.
Th𝚛𝚎𝚎 M𝚞mmi𝚎s 𝚏𝚛𝚘m th𝚎 c𝚊v𝚎s iп K𝚊𝚋𝚊𝚢𝚊п cli𝚏𝚏s, P𝚛𝚘viпc𝚎 𝚘𝚏 I𝚏𝚞𝚐𝚊𝚘, Phili𝚙𝚙iп𝚎s.
Cleopatra VII had four children. One with Julius Caesar and three with Mark Antony.
Experts have spent the past 12 months studying the remains of a woman who was discovered in the Altai mountains region of Mongolia, who they believe died from a head injury 1,100 years ago.