4,000-Year-Old Guide to the Ancient Egyptian Underworld May Be Oldest Illustrated ‘Book’ Few rides outside the subway system of New York City rival those mentioned in “The Book of Two Ways,” a mystical road map to the ancient Egyptian afterlife, when it comes to difficult travel. This user’s guide, a precursor to the corpus of Egyptian funerary texts known as […]
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It’s kind of like an evil eye, but the other way around: the good eye, brought about through lead-based kohl made up, unknowingly poisonous for ancient Egyptians but also had anti-microbial properties. Plus there was the magical aspect of invoking the gods Horus and Ra with the application of black makeup and further protective properties. In ancient Egypt people from all classes from laborers to royalty, applied the kohl in their eyes, as modern archaeologists and Egyptologists explain. But this phenomenon of thick, black […]
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In Peru, eleven 1000-year-old graves containing skeletons from the Moche civilization were found. Some were mutilated by removing their feet and tattoos imprinted on their skulls. Two children buried at the site were found with strange symbols illustrated on their skull fronts and one person was buried with a scepter. Another high-standing person was buried in a high-ceiling room and is thought […]
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Shipwreck found in Black Sea is ‘world’s oldest intact’ A team of marine archaeologists, scientists, and surveyors have uncovered, off the coast of Bulgaria, more than 1 mile below the shore of the Black Sea, what could be the oldest intact shipwreck in the world — a Greek trading vessel of 75 ft. of carbon-dated over 2400 years ago. The Black […]
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The connections between Christmas today and an English monastery were shown in a medieval document. The document is a list of relics issued by, among others, two English monarchs to Battle Abbey. Perhaps the most interesting thing in the collection was the bone of St. Nicholas ‘ or Santa. English Heritage, which manages hundreds of historic sites in England, including Battle Abbey in Sussex, confirmed the find This was once a prosperous Middle Age monastery before it […]
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Archaeologists in Croatia have unearthed a 1,800-year-old fossil of a Roman chariot and two horses A team of archaeologists working in Croatia have found an ancient Roman chariot buried together with two horses in ritual fashion The fossilized remains were found in a large burial chamber which belonged to an ‘ extremely wealthy family ‘ alongside the carriage that the […]
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Chinese Boy Obsessed with Science Discovers 66-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Eggs While Playing The Beijing Youth Daily reported that a 9-year-old primary school student from Heyuan, Guangdong province of South China, accidentally discovered what he suspected of being a fossil dinosaur egg while playing on downtown riverbank with his mom Later, the mom of the boy, Li Xiaofang, approached the local museum […]
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Mysterious destroyed temple and treasure-laden ships found in ‘Egyptian Atlantis’ that sank 2,200 years ago According to Egypt’s Ministry of Antiquities, divers swimming through Heracleion, an ancient Egyptian city that’s now underwater, have uncovered a number of artifacts including the remains of a temple, gold jewelry, coins, and the missing piece of a ceremonial boat. Heracleion was a busy metropolis […]
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GREEK FARMER ACCIDENTALLY DISCOVERS 3,400-YEAR-OLD MINOAN TOMB HIDDEN UNDER OLIVE GROVE Two Minoan men were laid to rest sometime between 1400 and 1200 B.C. in an underground enclosure carved from the soft limestone native to southeast Crete. Both were buried in larnakes — intricately embossed clay coffins popular in Minoan society in the Bronze Age — and surrounded by colorful […]
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Ancient Egyptian Catacomb reveals Carvings of a ‘ worthy ‘ woman and her pet The exterior of the catacomb discovered by the Egyptian-Japanese team. It was constructed almost 2,000 years ago, at a time when Egypt was ruled by the Romans. A woman named “Demetria” was laid to rest in a magnificently decorated catacomb in Egypt at Saqqara, nearly 2,000 years ago, at a […]
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