Author: Chris HM

A five-year-old girl’s skeleton was discovered underneath the chapel floor at the Real Alcázar in Spain. The remains, according to archaeologists, date from the 1300s and belong to a fair-haired girl who was most likely nobility. They believe she was initially buried somewhere else but was relocated in the 1930s to a spot next to…

The oldest known gold artifacts were found in the Varna Necropolis, a burial site dating back to 4,560-4,450 BC, on the Bulgarian coast of the Black Sea. Internationally considered to be one of the key prehistoric archaeological sites in the world, the Varna Necropolis (also known as the Varna Cemetery) is a large burial site…

Nesyamun was a priest from the reign of Ramesses XI, around 1100 BCE. His name means “the one belonging to the God Amun.” He worked in the temple of Karnak, which may have employed over 80,000 people at one time. Nesyamun was specifically a wab priest, which means that he reached a certain level of…

Most people associate mummies with Egyptian culture and complex mummification methods designed to bridge the gap between life and death, resulting in bodily preservation.While most mummies discovered today are the result of this procedure, there have been rare instances where a mummified body is the result of natural preservation rather than purposeful preservation. In 2011,…

Họ gọi họ là Catacomb Saints – xác chết của người La Mã cổ đại được khai quật từ các hầm mộ của Rome, đặt những cái tên hư cấu và gửi ra nước ngoài như di tích của các vị thánh từ thế kỷ 16 đến thế kỷ 19. Chúng được trang trí vô…

Thành phố ngầm được phát hiện trong quá trình thực hiện một dự án đô thị do Cơ quan Quản lý Phát triển Nhà ở Thổ Nhĩ Kỳ hỗ trợ tại Nevsehir, Trung tâm Anatolia. Trong khi đào lên để xây dựng các tòa nhà mới, các nhà xây dựng đã tình cờ phát hiện…

In many cases, the world below us is just as fascinating as the ground we walk on. Across Europe, there is a hidden, often millennia-old subterranean realm of tunnels stretching from the north in Scotland leading down to the Mediterranean. It is an underground world of never-ending tunnels, massive caves, and labyrinths dug by unknown…