Author: Gavin

Remains of Aztec palace, house built by Hernán Cortés found near Mexico City plaza The remains of an ancient Aztec palace were discovered under a stately building in the City of Mexico. Workers found basalt slab floors during the renovation work on the building off the capital’s central Zócalo plaza. The floors were part of an open space in the palace of Aztec ruler […]

This Ancient Mummy May Be The Oldest-Known Victim Of Heart Failure A 3,500-year-old mummy is changing the way scientists think about heart disease. A research team at the international congress of egyptology in Florence reported that the oldest cases of acute decompensated heart failure have been found in 3,500 years of mummified remains. In 1904, the Italian Egyptologist Ernesto Schiaparelli found the […]

Dozens of mammoth skeletons found under future Mexico City airport Archaeologists discovered some 60 mammoth bones at an airport under construction just north of the City of Mexico, near human-constructed ‘traps’ where more than a dozen mammoths were found last year. Both discoveries reveal how appealing  the area — once a shallow lake — was for the mammoths, and how erroneous was the classic […]

Cave divers unlock mysteries of the earliest Americans A new study by the El Centro Investigador del Sistema Acuífero de Quintana Roo A.C. (CINDAQ) together with Mexico’s Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH), and an international team of scientists has revealed the earliest ochre mines in the Americas and the first from the Paleoindian period. A CINDAQ team had […]

Celts buried animal hybrids beneath their homes as offerings to the gods Ancient culture in the Mediterranean thought nothing of splicing different animals together to form into amazing mythological beasts, like half-lion, half-goat chimera or half-lion half-eagle griffin. But until now, such imagination hasn’t been credited to Ancient Britons. This is about to change following a series of animal skeletons situated […]

Was surgery performed on Egyptians? Prosthetic pin in 3000-year-old mummy discovered Scientists have made an astonishing discovery during a routine DNA check on a male Egyptian after discovering a 23 cm iron orthopaedic screw inside his leg. It is thought that the mummy died between the 16th and 11th century BC and the pin is held in place by organic resin, […]