Ancient Civilizations

“Mumummy of the World: The Exhibition”

“Mumummy of the World: The Exhibition” When it comes to mummies, most of us immediately think of King Tut, ancient Egyptian royalty and elaborate tombs — but did you know that there’s so much more to the world of mummies?   Mummies of the World, a one of North America’s most popular traveling museum exhibitions, has made its way t...

Sarmatian Princely Burial Mound | Tomb Archeology

Sarmatian Princely Burial Mound | Tomb Archeology In early August of this year, an expedition of the Institute of Archeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences led by Professor Leonid Yablonsky, head of the Faculty of Scythian-Sarmanian archeology, during the archaeological excavations of mound-1 in the village of Filippovka, in the Ilek district o...

An Ancient Egyptian Mummification Workshop And Burial Chamber Complex

An Ancient Egyptian Mummification Workshop And Burial Chamber Complex The discovery of a mummification workshop and a collective burial place from the XXVI dynasty has been made to the south of the pyramid of Unas, in Saqqara Findings made near the pyramid of Saqqara An Egyptian and German archaeological mission, from the University of Tübingen, has discovered a mumm...

110 Ancient Tombs and Pottery Discovered in the Nile Delta, Between 5000 and 8,000 Years Old

110 Ancient Tombs and Pottery Discovered in the Nile Delta, Between 5000 and 8,000 Years Old Archaeologists in Egypt have unearthed 110 ancient tombs in the Nile Delta, containing the remains of adults and children dating from about 5,000 years ago. The incredible finds were made in Dakahlia province north of Cairo. The fact could shed light on two important transition periods in ancient Eg...

Catacombes De Paris: Where The Skeletons Of About Seven Million Former Parisians Are Kept

Catacombes De Paris: Where The Skeletons Of About Seven Million Former Parisians Are Kept The Catacombs hold secrets much stranger than the bones stacked within them. IN 2004, PARISIAN POLICE WERE assigned to do a training exercise in a previously uncharted part of the Catacombs of Paris beneath the Palais de Chaillot. Entering the catacombs through a drain, officers first came across a....

Head of a Real Amazon Warrior on Display at University

Head of a Real Amazon Warrior on Display at University It has been confirmed that the shrunken human head, which was exhibited at Mercer University in the USA and used as a prop in the 1979 black comedy film Wise Blood, belongs to a real Amazon warrior. The shrunken heads, called Tsantsa, are part of tribes in Ecuador and Peru. Chemist Craig D. Byron, B...

Mother’s Love Shines Through in 4,800-Year-Old Archeological Discovery

Mother’s Love Shines Through in 4,800-Year-Old Archeological Discovery Researchers were ‘shocked’ upon unearthing fossilized mother and child Archaeologists have uncovered the ancient remains of a young mother and an infant child locked in a 4,800-year-old embrace. The remarkable find was among 48 sets of remains unearthed from graves in Taiwan, including the fossi...

Ni****ne And Hallucinogens In Pre-Hispanic Societies. New Studies On Mummies From Atacama (Chile)

Ni****ne And Hallucinogens In Pre-Hispanic Societies. New Studies On Mummies From Atacama (Chile) Panoramic view of the Tatio geyser, in San Pedro de Atacama. Researchers from the University of Chile have analyzed the ni****ne present in the hair of the mummies of San Pedro de Atacama, and apparently the cultivation and consumption of to***co for religious, healing and shamanic purposes began ar...

Half the Medieval Working Class Had Broken Hands – Analysis Uncovers Social Injustice

Half the Medieval Working Class Had Broken Hands – Analysis Uncovers Social Injustice The “skeletal trauma” found across different cemeteries suggests that life took the hardest physical toll on the ordinary working poor of medieval Cambridge. Social inequality was “recorded on the bones” of Cambridge’s medieval residents, according to a new study of hundreds of human remai...

The world’s most beautiful Mummy – Rosalia Lombardo

The world’s most beautiful Mummy – Rosalia Lombardo Mummification, even if still practiced to this day in remote cultures, is very rare in the western world. In 1920, a little girl known as Rosalia Lombardo died at the age of two due to an aggravated case of pneumonia. Despite offering her the best medication possible at the time, she was too young a...

Ice Mummies of the Franklin Expedition on Beechey Island

Ice Mummies of the Franklin Expedition on Beechey Island In 1845, an expedition led by John Franklin of more than 100 people went in search of the legendary route to Asia, but two ships simply disappeared.   In 1850, the graves of three members of the missing crew were found on a beach island, after which the search was stopped. The graves of John …

The Story Of The Doomed Franklin Expedition And The Mummified Body Of John Torrington Left Behind

The Story Of The Doomed Franklin Expedition And The Mummified Body Of John Torrington Left Behind John Torrington and the other Franklin expedition mummies remain haunting reminders of that lost 1845 voyage to the Arctic that saw sailors cannibalize their crewmates in their final, desperate days. In 1845, two ships carrying 134 men set sail from England in search of the Northwest Passage — but...

Meeting The Juanita Mummy Arequipa

Meeting The Juanita Mummy Arequipa The findings of anthropologist Johan Reinhard in September 1995 changed this and provided a massive insight into the culture and beliefs of the Incas. Reinhard was hiking up the Ampato Volcano on an expedition to examine the explosive neighbouring volcano – Sabancaya. The volcanic ash from there h...

Beauty Of Xiaohe – 4000-Year-Old Mummy

Beauty Of Xiaohe – 4000-Year-Old Mummy Because of their Western features and unusual dress and diet, experts thought they were migrants from the Black Sea Researchers say eerily well-preserved Bronze Age mummies uncovered in far west China’s Taklamakan Desert decades ago were not travelers from the West, as previously theorized, but pa...

Exhibition “Mummies Of The World” In Philadelphia

Exhibition “Mummies Of The World” In Philadelphia At the Franklin Institute, located in Philadelphia, visitors are invited to an unusual exhibition called Mummies of the World. In this exhibition, each exhibit is unique, because here you can see a dog, the remains of which rested in the peat bogs of Germany for about five hundred years, and an emba...

Detmold Child Mummies 6,500-Year-Old

Detmold Child Mummies 6,500-Year-Old The Detmold Child is the name that has been given to an ancient Peruvian mummy that dates back an incredible 6,500 years – that’s 3,000 years before the birth of Tutankhamun. Recent computer topography scans of the infant have now revealed details about the child’s age, health, and cause of de...

The Natural Mummy Of The Less Than Chivalrous Knight Kahlbutz.

The Natural Mummy Of The Less Than Chivalrous Knight Kahlbutz. This is Christian Friedrich von Kahlbutz, a naturally mummified 17th-century German knight with a questionable past IN A TOMB UNDER THE church of Kampehl, in Neustadt/Dosse, Germany, one can see the mummy of Christian Friedrich von Kahlbutz or Knight Kahlbutz. Unfortunately it turns out that Kahlbut...

SETI I — Pharaoh of Egypt in the tomb

SETI I — Pharaoh of Egypt in the tomb Perfectly preserved mummy of SETI I and the remains of the original wooden coffins were discovered in a cache of Deir El-Bahri in 1881. The mummified face of Menmaatre Seti I also known as Sety I of the New Kingdom’s Nineteenth Dynasty pleasantly surprised Egyptologists for its superior preservati...

Workers Found A Mass Grave With More Than 100 Corpses Of Children From 500 Years Ago

Workers Found A Mass Grave With More Than 100 Corpses Of Children From 500 Years Ago The experts concluded that it is a cemetery dating from the end of the 16th century.   An extraordinary discovery was presented in southeastern Poland, when a group of construction workers discovered a mass grave dating from approximately 500 years ago, and in which the remains of more than 100 chi...

Hybrid Sκᴇʟᴇтoɴs: Discovered Fossils Of Strangely Shaped Human Skeletons

Hybrid Sκᴇʟᴇтoɴs: Discovered Fossils Of Strangely Shaped Human Skeletons Much тᴀмᴘᴇʀιɴԍ of evidence over the decades from the “authorities” has put a damper on historical finds but eventually the truth is going to come out. By all appearances to date, the more preposterous the claim, the more probable that it’s legitimate. Reality is fake, and myths and...

The Fire Mummies: Smoked Mummies Housed In Mountainside Caves.

The Fire Mummies: Smoked Mummies Housed In Mountainside Caves. KNOWN BY A VARIETY OF names such as the Kabayan Mummies, Ibaloi Mummies or Benguet Mummies, the Fire Mummies of the Philippines remain an elusive bunch Mummification is a practice that has existed since ancient times. The Egyptians mummies – their heavily bandaged and embalmed corpses- were amongs...

Archaeologists Find 2,100-Year-Old ‘Iphone’ In Grave Of Woman Buried In Russian ‘Atlantis’

Archaeologists Find 2,100-Year-Old ‘Iphone’ In Grave Of Woman Buried In Russian ‘Atlantis’ B.C. A device resembling a smartphone was found in a tomb belonging to a tribe thought to have lived from the 3rd century to the 1st century AD. Archaeologists discovered that there were colored stones on the black rectangular object.   Covered with turquoise and mother-of-pearl stones, the object ...

Inside Hidden Mountain Tribe Where Villagers Mummify D.e.a.d Relatives Using Smoke To Keep Bodies For Hundreds Of Years

Inside Hidden Mountain Tribe Where Villagers Mummify D.e.a.d Relatives Using Smoke To Keep Bodies For Hundreds Of Years The hidden mountain tribe in Papua where villagers mummified their ancestors with SMOKE and have kept their remains in a nearly perfect state for hundreds of years Extraordinary photos have emerged showing a tribe chief holding the perfectly mummified remains of one of his ancestors in a remote Indo...

Mysterious Tattoos On Ancient Egypt Mummies

Mysterious Tattoos On Ancient Egypt Mummies Decoding the Tattoos of Ancient Egyptians THE AVERAGE INHABITANT OF THE modern world—frequenting both museums and the cinema—has come to expect a number of things of the preserved bodies of the ancient Egyptians: bandages, amulets, perhaps a funerary mask, dried skin, and sometimes both a malevo...

National Archaeological Museum of Madrid: Guanche Mummy

National Archaeological Museum of Madrid: Guanche Mummy This embalmed man is one of the best preserved mummies from the Canary Islands. THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF THE Canary Islands left an enduring mark on the archipelago, a presence that continues to linger today, centuries after their culture became absorbed by the Spanish settlers. Their whistled langu...

Mummies On Display Set The Tone Of Italian Purgatory Church.

Mummies On Display Set The Tone Of Italian Purgatory Church. Church of Santa Maria del Suffragio called del Purgatorio: Macabre symbols of death THE 16TH AND 17TH CENTURIES marked a period of tremendous religious thinking in Europe. The Protestant Reformation was sweeping across the continent, and the Catholic Counter-Reformation in response. Among the contes...

The Mummies of Chauchilla Cemetery in Peru

The Mummies of Chauchilla Cemetery in Peru Plundered and left asunder by grave robbers, this ancient necropolis has been painstakingly pieced back together.   Scattered among the many full-bodied mummies at Chauchilla Cemetery are a number of mummified heads. Many of the heads have been specially prepared with holes drilled into the backs o...

Amerindian Mummy That Inspired Tintin Story Sparks Controversy In Belgium

Amerindian Mummy That Inspired Tintin Story Sparks Controversy In Belgium Both zoo and museum claim to own the authentic Rascar Capac, which was the cover of one of the adventures written by Hergé. Tintin arouses passions and, in recent days, conflicts in Belgium. A museum and a zoo claim to own the Amerindian mummy that inspired Hergé for the cover of the album “The ...

Reverte Coma Forensic Museum: A Place Not For The Faint Of Heart

Reverte Coma Forensic Museum: A Place Not For The Faint Of Heart The morbid items in this small and hidden museum are not for the weak stomached. Female skeleton LOST IN A CORRIDOR OF the immense Faculty of Medicine building at the Complutense University in Madrid, there is a small museum that may be best avoided for those with more delicate sensibilities. Visiti...

180m-year-old Dinosaur Fossils Discovered in SW China

180m-year-old Dinosaur Fossils Discovered in SW China Two dinosaur fossils from the Jurassic period have been discovered in Yunnan Province, southwest China. The two fossils have been identified as Lufengosaurus Magnus and Lufengosaurus Huenei by the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology. They were discovered during road work in Lu...

Sarcofagi Of Carajía: Chachapoyas – Mummy On The Cliff Side

Sarcofagi Of Carajía: Chachapoyas – Mummy On The Cliff Side These giant mummies are set ominously into a Peruvian cliffside and topped with real human skulls. STARING DOWN FROM A CLIFFSIDE in a Peruvian river gorge, the vertical Sarcophagi of Carajía (or Karijia) kept watch over the Utcabamba Valley for hundreds of years before researchers were able to clim...

“Skeleton of Giant” Is Internet Photo Hoax

“Skeleton of Giant” Is Internet Photo Hoax The National Geographic Society has not discovered ancient giant humans, despite rampant reports and pictures. The hoax began with a doctored photo and later found a receptive online audience—thanks perhaps to the image’s unintended religious connotations. A digitally altered photograph created ...

The Crypt Was Forgotten About – The Mummies Of Mexico City

The Crypt Was Forgotten About – The Mummies Of Mexico City BEING IN MEXICO CITY FOR Holy Week has its advantages. If you’re interested in Catholic rites and rituals you’ll find plenty to do during the solemn holy days leading up to Easter. Some parishes sponsor reenactments of the crucifixion performed with varying degrees of historical accuracy and gor...

Crate Mummies: The Intriguing Remains Of An 18th Century Family

Crate Mummies: The Intriguing Remains Of An 18th Century Family Found in crates inside a church in the Hungarian town of Vác, and analyzed in 2015, the 200-year-old bones could represent a milestone in science.   An old Dominican church was filled with researchers in 1994 in the Hungarian city of Vác. Upon opening mysterious crates inside the sacred site, exp...

Chinchorro: The South American Civilization That Mumfied D.e.a.d Before The Egyptians

Chinchorro: The South American Civilization That Mumfied D.e.a.d Before The Egyptians The discoveries about the Chinchorro people are so impressive that UNESCO has included the mummies on the World Heritage List. When it comes to the topic of “ancient mummies”, most people’s first reaction is to remember the great pharaohs of Egypt, buried in their sumptuous pyramids. But what ...

Egyptomania, The Macabra Practice Of Unwrapping Mummies In The Victorian Era

Egyptomania, The Macabra Practice Of Unwrapping Mummies In The Victorian Era In the Victorian elite, it was common to dismember corpses from Ancient Egypt, which were taken to England as souvenirs. The fascinating history and culture of the Egyptians has attracted the attention of thousands of people around the world for centuries. So much so that, during the 19th century, t...

Discovered Giant Footprints Believed To Belong To Lord Hanuman

Discovered Giant Footprints Believed To Belong To Lord Hanuman Lord Hanuman, also known as Pawan Putra (son of the wind), Bajranbali or Mahavira is a greatest devotee of Lord Rama and has day – Tuesday – dedicated to him.   Not many know that Hanuman’s giant footprints are still there on earth. There are at least four such places all over the world where...

The Mummy Two Lovers of Teruel: Magnificently sculpted tombs

The Mummy Two Lovers of Teruel: Magnificently sculpted tombs These magnificently sculpted tombs represent Spain’s own legendary version of “Romeo and Juliet.” The mummies found in the Church of San Pedro in Teruel THIS PAIR OF TOMBS WAS created after two mummified bodies were discovered in the 16th century. The mummies were believed to belong to the leg...

The Mummy Ankhefenmut: 3,000-Year-Old Mummy That Everyone Erroneously Thought Was Female.

The Mummy Ankhefenmut: 3,000-Year-Old Mummy That Everyone Erroneously Thought Was Female. CT scan revealed the identity of this 3,000-year-old mummy that everyone erroneously thought was female. A BEAUTIFUL EXHIBIT ON ANCIENT Egypt at the Albany Institute of History and Art is the current home of a 3,000-year-old mummy called Ankhefenmut, whose true identity was only relatively recently....