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

2,500 years before the birth of God, emperor Gilgamesh, ruler of Uruk, became the main character in the Epic of Gilgamesh – the “book” considered the oldest in history, which in fact just a set of inscribed clay tablets. There are many myths and legends in human history, some of which talk about prehistoric giants.

Having battled their deadly rivals the Romans in Spain, in 218BC the Carthaginian army made a move that no one expected. Their commander Hannibal marched his troops, including cavalry and African war elephants, across a high pass in the Alps to strike at Rome itself from the north of the Italian peninsula. It was one

In the small village of Kushla dere, nestled near the breathtaking beauty of Kosharitsa in Bulgaria, an incredible discovery was made. Deep within a tell, archaeologists unearthed a treasure that would captivate the world – a gold anthropomorphic figure. Dated to the late Chalcolithic period, the second half of the 5th millennium BC, this find

A Roman ruin in Coventry that is thought to house the only known gyrus in the Roman Empire could be given a revamp to boost visitor numbers. Located in the village of Baginton on the outskirts of Coventry, the Lunt Roman Fort was built around 60 AD to act as a supply depot and base