History – Mystery

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some point in your life. Quite often, those carefully taken photos are the inspiration to pack a bag and head out to see them in real life. Though seeing the landmark in person is a big deal, there will be some people who will tell you it’s not as big of a deal as everyone

They have been an important part of human history and life. We have made sculptures since the first days of humankind. It is possible to say sculpturing is one of the most primeval arts of humankind. They have been placed almost everywhere from holly places to ordinary places. We understand historical developments and events thanks

Archaeologists have found four ancient chariots and the remains of nearly 100 horses buried in a tomb in Xinzheng City, Henan province, central China. The chariots date to the Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 B.C.) and one of them in particular is an exceptional example of a luxurious vehicle with all the bells and whistles

Roman Ship, “De Meern 1”, was wrecked in a winding tributary of Rhine, 190 AD, due to navigational error. Much of ship’s interior and captain’s personal belongings were preserved in cabin, including collection of tools. It allows an extraordinary glimpse into life aboard vessel. It’s a bit of a weird topic, but I want to

During the Victorian era of the 1800s, Napoleon’s conquest of Egypt threw open the Gates of Egypt’s history for the Europeans. At that time, mummies were not accorded the respect that they deserved from the European elites and in fact, mummies could be purchased from street vendors (as shown in the picture) to be used

In a press announcement by the Alutiiq Museum, archaeologists have uncovered fragments of ancient weavings during excavations of an ancestral sod house on Kodiak Island, Alaska. Weaving is a long-practiced Alutiiq art, but one that is difficult to document archaeologically as fibre artifacts are fragile and rarely preserved. The sod house was part of a

The term encaustic designates painting in which beeswax is mixed with pigments. The technique was first used by Greek painters of the fifth and fourth centuries B.C. Ancient descriptions are difficult to interpret, and Egyptian mummy portraits–the only works in the medium surviving from antiquity–have not yet been analyzed extensively. Therefore, many questions concerning the

Newly Discovered Human-Sized Dinosaur Footprint Is The Largest Ever Found Australian researchers digging in the area known as “Australia’s Jurᴀssic Park” have found the world’s biggest dinosaur footprint yet to be discovered. According to their findings published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, the University of Queensland and James Cook University paleontologists found 20 more

The hand of Hercules as it’s commonly known is a giant megalithic hand located in Amman, Jordan but what has had many baffled to this day is where the rest of the statue is located if indeed the hand is of Hercules which is speculative based on ancient coins bearing the image of the demi-god