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Archaeologists discovered surprising mummy ingredients in Egypt
Scientists have uncovered the substances and concoctions ancient Egyptians used to mummify the dead, from the remnants of an embalming...
Archaeologists may have found Egypt’s oldest and most complete mummy
Archaeologists uncovered what they believe to be the "oldest" and "most complete" mummy ever discovered in Egypt. The 4300-year-old mummy...
1.2-million-year-old obsidian handaxe-making workshop found in Ethiopia
Scientists have unearthed a trove of about 600 obsidian hand-axes made more than 1.2 million years ago in Ethiopia by...
11,000-year-old human remains discovered in northern Britain
An international team of researchers at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) uncovered 11,000-year-old human bones in Cumbria, England's Heaning...
A mass burial of headless Roman skeletons found in England
A team of archaeologists discovered a Roman cemetery with decapitated skeletons. Excavations at the site were in preparation for the...
Graves of 144 enslaved people discovered on Rock Hill property
More than a hundred graves believed to hold the remains of enslaved people were discovered on a York County property,...
Violence was widespread in early farming society, new study reveals
According to recent study, violence and fighting were widespread in many Neolithic communities across Northwest Europe during the period associated...
Researchers shed light on the lives of Stone Age hunter-gatherers in England
Archaeologists from the Universities of Chester and Manchester have made discoveries which shed new light on the communities that inhabited...
Archaeologists find prehistoric headless skeletons in a settlement trench
Archaeologists from the Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 1266 of Kiel University (CAU) and the Archaeological Institute of the Slovak Academy...
New study reveals that “Bog Bodies” may be part of a tradition that spanned millennia
An international team of Dutch, Swedish, and Estonian archaeologists has conducted a study of hundreds of ancient “Bog Bodies” found...