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Common knowledge has it that in the past, hemp, cannabis or marijuana were cultivated or used in their wild-grown form for purposes like making rope, clothes or other similar items. But a recent discovery of a tomb in the Gobi desert, dating about 2,700 years ago, indicates that this theory may be wrong. The tomb, lo... |
4 December 2008
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A team of Bulgarian archaeologists has recently discovered an entire wooden chariot, sheathed with bronze platings, inside an old Thracian tomb. The ancient vehicle is thought to be about 1,800-year-old and it was found in a southeastern region of the country, close to the village of Karanovo. Alongside the chariot, ... |
22 November 2008
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The group of Israeli archaeologists that are in charge of investigating the remains of King Herod's winter palace at Herodium believe they have found enough preliminary evidence in order to assume that this was his actual burial place. The walls of crypt found within a two story mausoleum are covered by lavish R... |
21 November 2008
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The nearly eight century old small city of Frauenburg, or Frombork, as it is now named, located in northern Poland, on the Vistula Lagoon, in the County of Braniewo, the province of Warmia-Masuria, was known to have been the former residence of Nicolaus Copernicus. By comparing a recently-found tooth to two strands o... |
21 November 2008
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Albert Yu-Min Lin, a young scientist from the University of California in San Diego, has high-set ambitions and plans to search for the tomb of Genghis Khan in the vastness of the Mongolian desert, as others have done before. Still, his type of search will not move a single grain of sand from its place, as it relies ... |
30 October 2008
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A recent discovery of a Roman tomb that holds the remains of a former general who got to be a gladiator after being held in high regard by Rome's emperor proves that this may be the source of inspiration for Russel Crowe's character, Maximus Decimus Meridius, from Ridley Scott's "Gladiator" movie. The ... |
18 October 2008
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Researchers from the University of British Columbia recently uncovered the remains of a woman and a child belonging to the rich class buried in a tomb under their house. Mixed elements of Christian and pagan burial rituals were also discovered at the site.The remains were accidentally found by the locals almost half ... |
15 October 2008
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In the depths of some Roman ancient tombs two new species of live bacteria have been discovered. They could prove useful in protecting the monuments with high cultural heritage importance, says a new study. The Saint Callistus catacombs are part of an enormous graveyard that spreads on an area of 15 hectares (ab... |
26 September 2008
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Since the Stone Age, there have been two main methods of disposing of human corpses: burial or cremation. African tribes leave human corpses out for hyenas to eat; others leave the body to decompose in trees or on rocks. However, the future could add another option to the list: alkaline hydrolysis. Our bodies would b... |
14 May 2008
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Back in January, construction workers stumbled in the Usme district (southeast of Bogotá, Colombia) upon an ancient burial site made of about one thousand tombs belonging to two mysterious civilizations. The site spans over an area of 12 acres (5 hectares) and could host victims of human sacrifice."The possible victi... |
13 May 2008
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The tombs of ancient Native Americans in the modern southwestern US have been found to contain hundreds of dog remains. A new study, recently presented at the annual meeting of the Society for American Archeology in Vancouver, Canada, and representing the first results of an investigation on dog burial places encount... |
29 April 2008
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It has already been known as the largest pharaoh tomb in the Valley of the Kings. Now it appears that the tomb of Seti I, who ruled Egypt between 1313-1292 BC, is larger than originally believed. In 1817, Giovanni Battista Belzoni measured the tomb as being 328 ft (107 m) long. The new research shows its real length ... |
21 April 2008
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Those Vikings were like working bees. A Viking treasure made of 472 ancient silver coins was found near Sweden's main international airport, Arlanda, Stockholm, last week, showing that Vikings used foreign currency much earlier than previously believed. The 1,150-year-old treasure comprises mainly Arabic coins a... |
11 April 2008
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On the European plains, mysterious giant stones are found, forming alleys, circles or giant tables called "dolmens". They are the first monuments built by the mankind. A granite forest of dolmens and menhirs covers the Menec Field, near Carnac (French Brittany). In total, there are about 1,169 stones, with an average... |
31 March 2008
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He was one of the greatest military leaders of the Antiquity: he defeated the Persian Empire and created the largest empire of the ancient world in 13 years only. Alexander the Great had a tomb matching his personality in the city he founded at the mouth of the Nile River in 331 BC: Alexandria. For almost 600 years, ... |
24 March 2008
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When the Greeks saw the odd tombs of the pharaohs for the first time, they observed they had the shape of cookies made of flour and sesame, called "piramys". Hence the name "pyramids", even if the Egyptians always called them "mer". The shape of the pyramids was the result of an architectonic concept that evolved in ... |
21 March 2008
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On the southern part of the French Brittany, near the town of Carnac (Karnag) and the village of Locmariaquer, very close to the Gulf of Morbihan, the most expensive Neolithic (New Stone Age) menhirs in the world are to be found. "Menhir" comes from the Celtic words "maen" (stone) and "hir" (long). These construction... |
10 March 2008
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A burial in Ghana is by no means an ordinary one. That's because each coffin is a small art work, reflecting the fantasy of the local craftsmen. The local habit forces the family to spend a lot with the "throne" (coffin) so that to commemorate and tell the life story of the deceased person. Craftsmen around Accr... |
25 February 2008
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Many human civilizations are known to have made human sacrifices. Aztecs are perhaps the most famous for their cruel carnages, when hundreds to thousands of victims were killed and their still beating hearts were pulled out of their chests and offered to the gods. In fact, most pre-Columbian civilizations made human ... |
19 February 2008
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In the heaven of the tomb raiders, an American-Russian team has managed to find 4 ancient tombs with well-preserved mummies, ornate painted coffins, and mummified dogs. The necropolis of Deir el-Banat is located in the oasis El Faiyum, 50 mi (80 km) southwest of Cairo, a place also famous for the discoveries of the o... |
31 January 2008
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Since ancient times, people associated the idea of the immortality of the soul, rooted in Plato's teachings, with evergreen plants. With a right trunk, arched branches and fusiform treetop, the cypress tree is generally recognized as the funerary tree in the Mediterranean area. In antiquity, this tree, always gr... |
14 November 2007
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Those fascinated by the ancient Egypt have been waiting for this moment for 85 years, since the discovery of the famous mummy of the 19-year-old "Boy Pharaoh" by Howard Carter: as from yesterday the public can see the 3,000-year-old face of Tutankhamon in his tomb in the famous Valley of the Kings.The mummy has a shr... |
5 November 2007
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Traveling 100 years ago in the Vanuatu islands would have meant you were going to lose your head. And you body inside the stomachs of the locals, as they were still practicing cannibalism in certain areas. Now, over 50 headless skeletons have been discovered in one of the oldest cemeteries of the Pacific islands, bel... |
1 November 2007
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They are still perhaps the most mysterious civilization of the ancient Europe. Could a newly found tomb solve a part of the puzzle?Archaeologists have found an over 2,000-year-old Etruscan tomb perfectly preserved in Tuscany, with a treasure trove of artifacts and the urns keeping the remains of about 30 people.The t... |
14 August 2007
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This could be one of the most important discoveries of all Aztec archaeology: ground-penetrating radars have found underground chambers that could be the tomb of Emperor Ahuizotl, who ruled the Aztecs when Columbus reached the New World. This find is the first of its type and would offer a great opportunity to envisa... |
7 August 2007
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The civilization of the mighty ancient Greek warriors, called Mycenaean, that destroyed Troy disappeared 3,000 years ago. But now roadworks in southern Greece have dug out a rare Mycenaean grave thought to be much older than 3 millennia and containing important burial offerings including a gold chalice, announced the... |
19 July 2007
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In 1974, Chinese farmers digging for a well accidentally made the biggest archaeological discovery ever in China: the tomb of the emperor Qinshihuang, of the Qin dynasty, which in 221 BC, unified China for the first time after extremely bloody wars. The western name of the country, China (Chinese people call themselv... |
3 July 2007
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Ancient people said that Egypt was a gift of the Nile. But besides the richness of life, the Nile River came with the richness that human kind has always been greedy for: gold. Archaeologists have found evidence of large-scale gold extraction in the ancient Nubian kingdom of Kush, placed along the Nile. The finding i... |
19 June 2007
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Human sacrifices have been made in almost any human civilization. China is no exception. Chinese archaeologists have unearthed two human skeletons from a tomb in Fengyang, China. The tomb dates from the Qin dynasty period (221 to 206 B.C.). This dynasty is the first to have unified China and this is where the western... |
18 June 2007
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The sanguinary side of the ancient Mexican civilizations did not spare even the children. 24 skeletons belonging to children murdered in an ancient mass sacrifice have been accidentally discovered in a tomb at a construction site in Mexico near the town of Tula, 50 miles (80 km) north of Mexico City. Here was the sit... |
14 June 2007
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Being light-headed was brought to the extremes by ancient Peruvians. A decapitated skeleton discovered in a tomb of Nasca, the ancient civilization that bloomed in southern Peru from A.D. 1 till 750, offers more explanations about this civilization of head hunters.People belonging to this civilization are famous for ... |
7 June 2007
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China is the symbolic country for the Mongoloid race. But when Chinese researchers made a DNA analysis on the remains of a man found in a 1,400-year-old Chinese tomb, they found his genes were of an European. A white man. The man's (named Yu Hong) tomb was found in Taiyuan (central China) and is the easternmost ... |
25 May 2007
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The tomb of King Herod the Great, who ruled Israel when Jesus was born, the legendary builder of the Second Temple of Jerusalem, has just been discovered by an Israeli archaeologist. The Hebrew University announced this late Monday. The tomb is located in a site named Herodium, a flattened hilltop in the Negev Deser... |
9 May 2007
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A surprising discovery has been made in the Greek island of Kefaloniá, located in the Ionian Sea, between Greece and Italy. Archaeologists have dug a Roman-era theater and tomb, containing gold jewelry, pottery, and bronze offerings. This the first finding of this type on an island in the Ionian Sea and it points out... |
10 April 2007
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Ancient Peruvians may have been a sophisticated society, possessing advanced astronomical knowledge, but like many pre-Columbian societies, such as Maya and Aztec, their power was based on the tactic of scaring their neighbors, by using cruel rites. New archaeological finds suggest that aristocrats dismembered their ... |
29 March 2007
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Indy returns for a heart-stopping new adventure in Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb! It's 1930s China, and Indiana Jones has been hired to recover one of the most powerful artifacts known to man before it falls into hostile hands. Join Indy in an epic, globe-spanning race that puts him against the Nazis... |
19 March 2007
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