Inuit Mummies Had Clogged Arteries Despite High Omega-3s The mummified Inuit scans of Greenland from the 16th century show that, despite a diet rich in omega-3 fatty acids, the ancient hunters suffered from clogged-up arteries. Atherosclerosis — the build-up of fat, cholesterol, and calcium plaques in one’s arteries — is a leading cause of death in the wealthy countries of […]
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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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Priceless Gold Coins Discovered in Ancient ‘Piggy Bank’ in Israel In an ancient harbor off Israel’s coast, a massive trove of thousand-year-old gold coins was unearthed. The hoard, discovered by members of an amateur scuba diving club for the first time, is Israel’s largest haul of gold coins ever unearthed. The finding raises the possibility that an ancient shipwreck, once […]
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Scythian Burial With Golden Headdress Found in Russia As the ancient Scythians travelled through Europe and Asia to discover subsequent archaeologists and left behind a trail of burial mounds, it was assumed that those buried with weapons were men. It was only with the advent of modern scientific analysis that it was revealed that women warriors were a common sight […]
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About 48 million years-ago a young snake died a few days after eating a lizard in a volcanic lake. The lizard had just eaten a beetle that was still in its stomach, and the evidence of this ancient food chain has been preserved for millions of years. The unique fossil has now been uncovered by researchers digging in the Messel […]
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The Varna Gold Treasure is considered the oldest gold treasure in the world or the oldest human processed gold in the world dating back to the time of the Chalcolithic (Aeneolithic, Copper Age) Varna Culture – 4,550-4,320 BC. The Varna gold treasure all from the Late Chalcolithic period in the Varna 5th millennium BC, is one of five or six […]
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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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A historic discovery has been announced by the Egyptian Supreme Antiquities Council. Ramses II has been discovered as a very rare pink or rose granite statue of one of the greatest pharaohs. What makes the discovery noteworthy is that it bears an unique symbol of the life-force or soul of the pharaoh, the first time that this symbol was seen […]
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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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