Ancient Egyptians believed in an afterlife when someone died.  Mummification helped someone reach the afterlife as they believed that an afterlife could only exist if …

Great-grandfather’s university expeditions. Maybe you can recognize the guy in the center of the photo. Great-grandfather’s university expeditions: another snapshot. Old times: great-grandfather’s university expeditions. Unpublished …

Several people associated with the tomb’s discovery did die in the years following its opening, including Lord Carnarvon, who financed the expedition, and several members …

Shoes and boots, show where your feet have gone. —Guy Sebeus In the age of fast fashion, when planned obsolescence, cheap materials, and shoddy construction …

The idea of ancient Egyptians using electricity is so widespread that I could not ascertain who came up with it first. The depiction (image 2) …

Many Moons ago a theory was proposed, which claimed that the small shafts inside the Great Pyramid pointed towards certain stars in the night sky. …

One of the more mysterious symbols that has been found in ancient carvings is an image that looks uncannily like a handbag. The shape appears …

One of the most famous pyramids in Mesoamerica is located in the Yucatan Peninsula. Not far from popular tourist center Cancun (around a 4-hour drive) …

The Sun Stone is one of the most famous Mesoamerican sculptures, yet this mysterious Aztec calendar harbors many secrets. Recent studies leave us baffled. Read …

Though scholars know the Anunnaki as the gods of ancient Mesopotamia, fringe theorists believe they are ancient alien invaders from the planet Nibiru. Before the …

A U.S.-led research team may have finally located the lost city of Atlantis, the legendary metropolis believed swamped by a tsunami thousands of years ago, …

Archaeologists in Peru have found evidence of the biggest-ever sacrifice of children, uncovering the remains of more than 140 youngsters who were slain alongside 200 …

The ethnological museum in Berlin has returned two mummified Maori heads to New Zealand on Monday, as “a sign of reconciliation for societies affected by colonialism.” The …

National Archeology Museum and hospital join forces to produce reconstruction of the bodies in 3D Of all the sick people undergoing a CT scan in …

Egyptian Museum, Cairo. Apart from being a relatively unusual and gorgeous find, this piece poses a riddle: the king Ḥeqakheperrēʿ-setepenrēʿ Šōšenq-meryamūn, whose names are engraved …

During the early twentieth century, Howard Carter, a British Egyptologist, excavated for many years in the Valley of the Kings—a royal burial ground located on …

Senusret II, means “Man of Goddess Wasret”, meaning “the mighty one”. His name seems to enter the royal linage because of this king’s non-royal, great, …

THE SPHINX contains a hidden door that could lead to a secret underground lair, according to a historian. The pyramids of Giza and the Sphinx …

Sumer was humanity’s first great civilization. Even in today’s society you can still find traces of Sumerian inventions in agriculture, language, mathematics, religion and astronomy. …

Archaeologists have confirmed the existence of a secret tunnel and chamber under the Pyramid of the Moon in the ancient city of Teotihuacan in Mexico. …