The Lamassu is a celestial being from ancient Mesopotamian religion bearing the head of a man, the wings of an eagle, and the hulking body of a bull, sometimes with the horns and the ears of a bull…

One of the most impressive architectural features of the French Renaissance castle of Château de Chambord is its famous double helix staircase.

Stone relics of monumental sculpture are characteristic of Ireland, Scotland, northern England and other smaller islands scattered around the British Isles (“Pictish Stones” 2015; Allen, John, Romilly 1887). Scottish stelae, also called Pictish symbol stones, are categorized in terms of their development periods (Ibid.). About three hundred and fifty examples of similar Pictish stones have

Special thank-you to a specialist in ancient philosophy and history who alerted me to the recent excavation of an amazing floor mosaic which has lain buried under the ash and debris from the eruption of Vesuvius which engulfed the city of Pompeii and all of its remaining inhabitants in AD 79, and wh

At the ancient Egyptian temples of Philae, Nubians gave new life to a vanishing religious tradition

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In 1946, a remarkable archaeological find took place near Næstved, Denmark. It was the discovery of a well-preserved corpse known as the Porsmose Man, shedding light on the ancient civilizations that once inhabited the region. This article delves into the intriguing details surrounding the Porsmose Man’s remains and the insights they provide into Denmark’s rich history.

Researchers have uncovered the fossilized remains of an ape species named Anadoluvius turkae, which may challenge the prevailing theory that the ancestors of African apes and humans evolved exclusively in Africa.

SCIENTISTS have discovered the fossils of a “hobbit” that lived 700,000 years ago on an Indonesian island.

Unearthed on the edge of the Arctic, she is the only woman so far found in an otherwise all-male necropolis, buried in a cocoon of copper and fur.

Archaeologists sυggest that 7,000 years ago, a Chilean tribe began мυммifying children after they died of natυral arsenic poisoning.

Mummification of the deceased is a fairly well-known practice from ancient times. Most notably, the Egyptians utilized a mummification process that led to today’s cliché image of a deceased body covered in gauzy wrappings. The discovery of mummified remains in several caves in the Philippines represents a different type of mummy – the fire mummy.

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The “Petralona Man,” or “Petralona Archanthropυs” is a for 700,000 years old hυмan skυll foυnd in 1959. Since then, scientists have tried to locate the origin of…

Archaeologists in Rome have stumbled on a large marble head of Dionysus, also known as Bacchus, the ancient Roman god of wine, dance and fertility. …

Archaeologists in Rome have stumbled on a large marble head of Dionysus, also known as Bacchus, the ancient Roman god of wine, dance and fertility.

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