Siberian Princess reveals her 2,500-year-old tattoos Tattoos aren’t just a trendy way for people to express themselves – they’re also apparently a time-honored tradition dating back almost three thousand years. A Siberian mummy, who researchers believe was buried 2500 years ago, will show off her intricate ink when she finally goes on display this month, and her shockingly well-preserved body […]
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Pedra do Inga: A 6,000-Year-Old Monument Depicting an Ancient Star Map Its most prominent symbols depict stars, the Milky Way as well as the constellation of Orion. Most glyphs etched on the massive stone represent animals, fruits, humans, and constellations, but also a plethora of yet unrecognizable symbols and images. There’s a strange, massive stone located in the municipality of […]
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This 48-Million-Year-Old Fossil Has an Insect Inside a Lizard Inside a Snake Palaeontologists have uncovered a fossil that has preserved an insect inside a lizard inside a snake – a prehistoric battle of the food chain that ended in a volcanic lake some 48 million years ago. Pulled from an abandoned quarry in southwest Germany called the Messel Pit, the fossil […]
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Iron Age Celtic Woman Wearing Fancy Clothes Buried in This ‘Tree Coffin’ in Switzerland THE ANCIENT corpse of a woman buried in a hollowed-out tree has been found in Switzerland. It’s believed the woman, who died 2,200 years ago, commanded great respect in her tribe, as she was buried in fine clothes and jewellery. Scientists say the woman was Celtic. […]
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9,000-Year-Old Skeletons Painted in Different Colours Found Buried Them in Their Homes The inhabitants of the “world’s oldest city” — now a UNESCO World Heritage Site — painted the skeletal remains of their dead and buried them within the structures of their homes, painting the walls as part of the burial ritual, according to researchers. Skeleton of a male individual […]
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A Horse Skeleton Reveals the Hidden Death of 54 Ancient Soldier Corpses Scientific analyses of mass graves believed to be associated with battles fought at Himera, Sicily, between the Greeks and Carthaginians in the 5th century BC have provided new insights into the genetic ancestry of the island’s inhabitants, and also the role of warfare in triggering contact between distant […]
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Astronomers find the world’s biggest natural diamond, which weighs 10 billion trillion trillion carats. The universe’s biggest diamond is not found on Earth. In reality, it is a star called BPM 37093 or V886 Centauri, which is a white dwarf. A white dwarf star is a “dead” or “lost” star. V886 Centauri is shaped like a diamond and floats in […]
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Between 23 and 34 million years old, the well-preserved praying mantis was found in amber In a remarkable natural process, insects and even mammals can be preserved in time for all eternity by becoming encased in tree sap that eventually turns into amber. In the hit movie Jurassic Park, a scientific character was able to draw dinosaur blood from mosquitoes […]
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Ancient Skeletons from Croatia Discovered with Alien-Like Heads Three ancient corpses have been discovered by archaeologists in Croatia, and two of them have pointed purposely disfigured heads. Each of the skulls had been combined into a distinct form, maybe to indicate which ethnic group each one belonged to. The practice of artificial cranial deformation has been carried out all throughout […]
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In a Californian gold mine, 40 million-year-old tools were found At Table Mountain and other locations in the gold mining region around the middle of the nineteenth century, miners discovered hundreds of stone artifacts and human bones buried deep inside their tunnels. Experts claim that these bones and artifacts were found embedded in layers from the Eocene epoch (38-55 million […]
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