Is your pet part of the family? That’s nothing new. Archaeological evidence exists to suggest that the Vikings held their own animals in high – even intimate – regard, taking them with them on voyages. Read more Section: News History Ancient Traditions Read Later Source Views: 0
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Shared Horse and Human Burials Show Vikings’ Bond With Their Animal Companions
Archaeologists Uncover 2,000-Year-Old Maya Burials with Decapitation Marks in Mexico
Archaeologists from Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) have made an exciting discovery at the Moral-Reforma Archaeological site in Balancán, Tabasco. Read more Section: News History & Archaeology Read Later Source Views: 0
Yorkshire Dig Reveals 62 Burials, Including the Remains of a Roman Aristocratic Woman
Archaeologists have hailed the discovery of a hidden cemetery in Garforth, Leeds as a “once-in-a-lifetime find”. Read more Section: News History & Archaeology Read Later Source Views: 0
Egyptian Tombs Reveal 60 High-Ranking Burials from the 18th Dynasty
Right at the turn of the year, a Spanish archaeological mission made a tremendous discovery in the modern city of Luxor in Egypt, which includes the site of the ancient city of Thebes. Read more Section: News History & Archaeology Read Later Source Views: 0
Red Ochre Colored Skeletons Revealed in Çatalhöyük Burials, New Study
In Neolithic Anatolian Çatalhöyük burials, in what is often called the world’s oldest city (modern-day Turkey), people sometimes decorated the skeletal remains and the burial chamber walls of the deceased Read more Section: News History & Archaeology Ancient Places Asia Read Later Source Views: 0
The Royal Burials of 65 Celtic Kings Identified in England and Wales
Researchers in England had always known there was something special about these 65 graves. Now, a new paper explains that these are likely the resting places of powerful post-Roman period Celtic kings Read more Section: News History & Archaeology History Famous People Read Later Source Views: 0
Mesolithic Burials in Europe from 8,000 Years Ago Point to Earliest Evidence of Mummification
How old is the art of embalming the dead and where did it originate? This is one of those eternal archaeological questions that is constantly reinforced and altered with the arrival of new evidence. In the realm of popular history, mummification has been associated with the ancient Egyptian civilization and the grand pharaohs of yesteryear, […]
Burials up 15%, cremations up 10% in 2021 compared to 2020
More than five cemeteries overseen by The Catholic Cemeteries have seen a 15 percent increase in burials and a 10 percent increase in cremations so far this year compared to 2020. Executive Director Joan Gecik says that she believes the increases are due to a backlog of committal services that were postponed at […]
Mexico’s ‘Tren Maya’ Project Reveals Countless New Sites and Burials
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s ambitious, and highly controversial, Maya Train or Tren Maya project was announced in the winter of 2018. Envisaged as an intercity project that will traverse the Yucatan Peninsula in south-eastern Mexico, it was met with opposition by historical conservationists, the Zapatista guerrilla group, local indigenous peoples, and a significant […]
Underwater Military Ship and Burials Found at Thonis-Heracleion, Egypt
The island-city of Thonis-Heracleion and its famous Temple of Amun was located in Egypt’s Abu Qir Bay, just north of Alexandria, Egypt. Greeks later settled in Thonis-Heracleion during the late pharaonic dynasties and built their own religious sanctuaries beside and around the older Egyptian Temple of Amun. The island-city was completely destroyed at the end […]
A ‘Galaxy’ of Islamic Burials Exhibits An “As Above, So Below” Concept
Sudanese Islamic burial sites are not randomly located as was traditionally believed. Quite the opposite. Thanks to satellite technology , it has been discovered that contrary to the belief that these Islamic burials were scattered randomly across the ancient landscape, thousands of burial sites follow a “galaxy-like” distribution pattern. Knowing this audience, I know I […]
Swedish Viking Burial Shows Transition to Christian Burials Says Study
In Sigtuna, Sweden, just north of Stockholm, seven well-preserved Viking tombs have been discovered, including the graves of two possible infant twins. As per the Swedish press release on this particular Viking burial site in Uppdrag Arkeologi , these graves revealed a transition from tradition Viking burials to Christian funerary practices, which was also summarized […]
Pömmelte Ring Sanctuary Eclipses Stonehenge With Homes and Ghastly Burials
Scientists think an ancient astronomical observatory in Pömmelte, Germany will overshadow England’s famous Stonehenge in terms of archaeological data and the number of human burials. Over 4,000 years old, an Early Bronze Age German settlement near the town of Pömmelte is known to be vastly more expansive than contemporary structures like Stonehenge in the British […]
Ole Worm Illustrations Identify New Ship Burials at Danish Site
Archaeologists from Flinders University in Australia working on a Danish ship burial site on the ex-Viking island of Hjarnø, in modern-day Denmark, have created quite a stir in the field of history and archaeology. The renewed explorations of the Kalvestene site was in part inspired by a 17th century illustration by Ole Worm. The resulting […]
French Archaeologists Discover 113 Intact Ancient Guadeloupe Burials
French archaeologists working for INRAP (the National Institute for Preventive Archaeology Research) recently found something unique and unprecedented on the archipelago of Guadeloupe in the southeastern Caribbean. They found a large number of intact Guadeloupe burials, dating back to pre-Columbian times (the 11th to 13th centuries). In total, the Guadeloupe burials archaeologists found contained 113 separate […]
Shadows of the Dead: Anglo-Saxon Burials are Spooky Sand Silhouettes
Archaeologists in Britain have uncovered a remarkable Anglo-Saxon burial ground that dates back to the 6th or 7th century AD. This Anglo-Saxon burial site is rather unusual as it consists of spooky silhouettes of the deceased in the sandy soil. The skeletons have long since disappeared. It is believed that this eerie site can help […]
Genetically modified eggplant a massive failure in Bangladesh as crops fail for second year in a row
(NaturalNews) A program to test a variety of genetically modified (GM) eggplant in Bangladesh is in shambles, but continues to be forced through by […]