Nefertiti’s Disappearance: What happened to the eminent queen of ancient Egypt?
Why she disappeared from history entirely in the twelfth year of Akhenaten's reign? There will never be another record of Nefertiti. She vanished without a trace.
Sa-Nakht, the mysterious giant pharaoh of Ancient Egypt
Sa-Nakht is a pharaoh, but not an ordinary pharaoh that we think of when we hear about ancient Egypt. Sa-Nakht is distinguished as the first pharaoh of Egypt’s Third Dynasty. However,…
Hidden details in ancient Egyptian tomb paintings revealed by chemical imaging
The technique called portable X-ray fluorescence has helped Egyptologists identify changes and adjustments to details of tomb decoration that are invisible to the human eye.
Unusual 7,000-year-old prehistoric clay figurine unearthed at Battifratta Cave, Lazio
The figurine dates to the Neolithic period, when ancient people first started to develop farming communities in Italy.
Catacombs: The empire of the deads beneath the streets of Paris
Paris, France’s capital, a city that’s known for its love of fashion, romance, and culture, hides a dark secret under its streets. The Catacombs, where six million dead Parisians are…
1,100-year-old breastplate to ward off evil may contain the oldest Cyrillic writing ever found
Researchers claim an inscription on a 1,100-year-old breastplate discovered in a ruined fortress in Bulgaria is one of the earliest known examples of Cyrillic text.
Archaeologists shed light on the lives of Stone Age hunter-gatherers in Britain
A team of archaeologists from the Universities of Chester and Manchester has made discoveries which shed new light on the communities who inhabited Britain after the end of the last Ice Age.
Xibalba: The mysterious Mayan underworld where the souls of the dead traveled
The Mayan underworld known as the Xibalba is similar to the Christian hell. The Mayans believed that every man and woman who died traveled to Xibalba.
Ancient star-shaped holes found in Volda: Evidence of extremely advanced precision machine?
Although areas like Puma Punku and the Giza basalt plateau have precise holes drilled several feet into the extremely hard stones, these particular holes were strangely produced in the shape of stars.
Australia’s mysterious Marree Man: The world’s largest geoglyph can be seen from space
The world’s biggest geoglyph, known as the “Marree Man,” is etched in the dry sand of Australia’s harsh desert. It is a gigantic figure of an Aboriginal man hunting birds…
