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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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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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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‘ The Amazing Growth of the Christmas Tree’ Who would have imagined that one day the modest tree would be a huge global achievement? A couple of hundred years ago? Of course not Martin Luther, who is said to have decorated a tree with candles to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. Nor Prince Albert, who set up the first Christmas […]
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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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Mystery over ‘female’ remains found on male-only Greek mountain Most specialists in Greece were shocked by an analysis of some bones. On Mount Athos, which is a male-only area, they were found, inhabited exclusively by monks. Some of the bones seem to be female remains and this is raising eyebrows among many academics. If the bones are confirmed to be […]
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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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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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