This woman was buried wearing a head cone in a cemetery at the site of Amarna in Egypt. Ancient Egyptians have long been depicted wearing so-called head cones, but until now, archaeologists had no physical evidence of their existence. Now,…
The Black Death was responsible for killing thousands of people in medieval Europe. This illustration from the time shows skeletons rising from the dead for the dance of death. From the “Nuremberg Chronicle” (published in 1493) written by Hartmann Schedel…
In this reconstruction of the “Mithraeum of Colored Marbles” the spelaeum, the most important room in the mithraeum, is shown on the bottom level. Some 1,600 years ago, ancient Romans would have worshipped the god Mithras, possibly in an altered…
A skeleton found in China belonged to an individual with a rare form of dwarfism. Archaeologists made an “extremely rare” find in China when they found a human skeleton with an uncommon form of dwarfism, according to a recent news…
A Full Cold Moon is set to appear in the sky on Thursday 12 December, when the moon will be located on the opposite side of the Earth as the
NASA has shared a photo showing both North and South America, which was created from data acquired by NASA’s Suomi NPP satellite in