A CT scan has revealed that a 2,300-year-old Ancient Egyptian mummy has 49 amulets placed within the body.
The team used a computerised tomography (CT) to ‘digitally unwrap’ an undisturbed mummy known as “Golden Boy”.
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The Eye of the Sahara
The Eye of the Sahara, also known as the Richat Structure and the Eye of Africa, is a geological feature in the Sahara Desert’s Adrar Plateau, located in west–central Islamic Republic of Mauritania.
The structure is an eroded elliptical dome…
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Secrets of Ancient Egyptian mummification materials revealed
A new study, published in the journal Nature, has revealed the types of materials used in Ancient Egyptian mummification.
Back in 2016, archaeologists discovered an embalming workshop at the Saqqara Necropolis, located in the Giza Governorate,…
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Archaeologists find 11,000-year-old human remains in British cave
A team of archaeologists from the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan), have found 11,000-year-old human remains in Heaning Wood Bone Cave, located in Cumbria, England.
Heaning Wood Bone Cave is a limestone formation with a vertical shaft,…
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When Will Fusion Energy Light Our Homes?
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One question for Thomas Nicholas, a computational plasma physicist and former…
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Lasers are mapping Scotland’s subterranean Iron Age structures
Archaeologists from AOC Archaeology have been using lasers to map subterranean Iron Age structures, such as the Cracknie Souterrain, an Iron Age passageway in the Borgie Forest, Scotland.
A souterrain, from the French name sous terrain, meaning…
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Archaeologists find prehistoric mass grave with headless skeletons
Archaeologists have found a mass grave site in Vráble, Slovakia, containing 38 burials who were decapitated.
Excavations were conducted by a team from the Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) at Kiel University (CAU), and the Archaeological…
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Researchers discover earth sized planet
Using data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, scientists have identified an Earth-size world, called TOI 700 e, orbiting within the habitable zone of its star – the range of distances where liquid water could occur on a…
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Study reveals that “bog bodies” were part of a tradition that spanned a millennia
Archaeologists have conducted a study of hundreds of ancient “bog bodies” found in Europe’s wetlands, revealing that they were part of a tradition that spanned a millennia.
A bog body refers to a human corpse naturally preserved in a peat…
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Origins of the Mesoamerican astronomy and calendar from the Olmec and Maya regions
In a paper published in the journal, Science Advances, researchers have applied archaeoastronomical studies to demonstrate how the civic and ceremonial buildings in Mesoamerica were largely oriented to sunrises or sunsets on specific dates from…
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