The Not-So-Unusual is revealed: Dinosaur “mummie” May Be More Common Than Once Thought
Life reconstruction of Edmontosaurus. Credit: Full color Edmontosaurus reconstruction by Natee Puttapipat, CC-BY 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) A process of desiccation and deflation explains why dinosaur โmummiesโ arenโt as exceptional as …
Read moreHow this pile of pennies saved a First World War soldier’s life was spared
A stack of coins was found to be an unlikely lifesaver when a Reddit user revealed that his great-grandfather narrowly avoided being shot during the First World War thanks to the change in his pocket. Belgian soldier Optatius Buyssens was carrying a stack …
Read moreThe Unusual Human Skull Discovered in China Is Unlike Any Human Skull Ever Seen
A skull unearthed in East China might indicate that there is another branch to the human family tree, scientists have revealed. A group of scientists from around the world have identified a unique human fossil in China that distinguishes itself from any …
Read moreSpanish uses CT scan to unveil historical mysteries of the mummies
One of the mummies is examined at the Hospital QuirรณnSalud Madrid.NATIONAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM (MAN) The research team presented the results of the scans last week in the Spanish capital: two of the Egyptian mummies donated to MAN in 1887 were found …
Read more2,500-year-old tattoos of a Siberian princess are revealed
She is to be kept in a special mausoleum at the Republican National Museum in capital Gorno-Altaisk, where eventually she will be displayed in a glass sarcophagus to tourists. For the past 19 years, since her discovery, she was kept mainly at a scientific …
Read moreIn a 4,300-year-old “necropolis” in ancient Egypt, archaeologists discovered a little girl’s mummy
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Read moreExcavating elongated skulls in 1928: Revealing ancient traditions of Paracas civilization in Peru
Iะฟ 1928, a remarkable archaeological discovery seะฟt shockwaves throฯ gh the scieะฟtific commฯ ะฟityโaะฟ array of eloะฟgated skฯ lls, distiะฟct from the ะฟorm, were ฯ ะฟearthed at the Paracas Peะฟiะฟsฯ la iะฟ Perฯ . This astoะฟishiะฟg fiะฟd shed light oะฟ aะฟ aะฟcieะฟt civilizatioะฟ, …
Read moreAn ancient star chart that is still puzzling today is the Sumerian Planisphere
The Sumerian Planisphere โ a forgotten Star Map The Sumerian Planisphere | The cuneiform tablet in the British Museum collection No K8538 In the late 19th century, a strange-looking circular stone-cast tablet was recovered from the 650 BC underground …
Read moreRoman Pompeii revealed a slave chamber
ARCHAEOLOGISTS HAVE UNCOVERED A SECOND SLAVE ROOM DURING EXCAVATIONS AT THE VILLA OF CIVITA GIULIANA, LOCATED 600 METRES FROM THE WALLS OF ROMAN POMPEII. Pompeii was a Roman city in the modern commune of Pompeii near Naples in the Campania region of Italy. …
Read more“Stomach Stone” Fossil Found on Jurassic Coast, the Oldest in the World
Oldest Fossil โStomach Stoneโ The oldest fossil โstomach stoneโ has been discovered at Kimmeridge Bay, Dorset on the famous โJurassic Coastโ. The baseball-sized fossil was found by the eminent palaeontologist Dr Steve Etches MBE. It is thought to be around …
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