A good treasure of coins from the times of the Russian Empire. The hoard is mixed, the hoard contains both copper coins of small denominations and silver coins with a…

This is the former cannibal mountain tribe who amputate the fingers of women to appease the dead and smoke ancestors daily to preserve their mummified bodies.  The indigenous Dani tribe live in the isolated Baliem Valley in West Papua, Indonesia, and …

Skeletons adorn the walls and ceilings of the crypt, like 3D paintings. Death is staring at me. He has no eyes, just hollow eye sockets, but I know he can see me. With no more than ten feet between us, Death stands immobile, garbed in a dirty, dusty cloak …

In 1906 archaeologist Edward Ayrton discovered and excavated three tombs in Egypt’s “Valley of the Kings”. When he entered tomb KV 50 he found a hot low ceiling shaft tomb with one chamber and two occupants facing off with each other, a mummified yellow …

It is guessed that phallic symbols on the streets point towards nearest brothel, to direct foreign sailors who may be heavily intoxicated and/or unable to speak the local language. It’s no big secret that the ancient Roman empire was not always the most …

Centuries-old corpse buried with favourite fan discovered nearly perfectly preserved inside coffin by stunned construction crewThe builders came across the man’s body, dressed in fine fabrics and laid to rest with his favourite fan, while carrying out …

Their well-preserved skeletons were jumbled together, and all of them, with the exception of a young child, were missing their heads 37 skeletons without heads; here are two of them lying on their fronts. How, when, and why the heads were removed is still …

A young girl found buried in a casket in San Francisco’s Lone Mountain neighborhood a year ago has been identified, a team of researchersannounced today. The girl, who was nicknamed “Miranda Eve” by the researchers, has been identified as Edith Howard …

C𝚛𝚘𝚊ti𝚊n 𝚊𝚛ch𝚊𝚎𝚘l𝚘𝚐ists h𝚊v𝚎 𝚞n𝚎𝚊𝚛th𝚎𝚍 𝚊 n𝚎c𝚛𝚘𝚙𝚘lis with th𝚎 𝚛𝚎m𝚊ins 𝚘𝚏 32 𝚙𝚎𝚘𝚙l𝚎 — s𝚘m𝚎 𝚋𝚞𝚛i𝚎𝚍 in c𝚎𝚛𝚊mic j𝚊𝚛s — 𝚍𝚊tin𝚐 𝚋𝚊ck t𝚘 th𝚎 l𝚊t𝚎 4th/𝚎𝚊𝚛l𝚢 5th c𝚎nt𝚞𝚛𝚢 AD. R𝚎s𝚎𝚊𝚛ch𝚎𝚛s 𝚞n𝚎𝚊𝚛th𝚎𝚍 th𝚎 𝚛𝚎m𝚊ins in th𝚎 𝚏𝚛𝚘nt 𝚐𝚛𝚘𝚞n𝚍s 𝚘𝚏 R𝚊𝚍𝚘š𝚎vić P𝚊l𝚊c𝚎, 𝚊 17th c𝚎nt𝚞𝚛𝚢 …