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200 ancient ‘giant’ skeletons unearthed in Cayuga, Canada Discoveries of the skeletons of a gigantic race often surface on various news articles and media, and we are therefore more puzzled to know to what race the ancient “Mound Builders” belonged. About a century ago, an article appeared in The Toronto Daily Telegraph stating that in the township …
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The White City: A mysterious lost “City of the Monkey God” discovered in Honduras The White City is a legendary lost city of ancient civilization. The Indians see it as a cursed land filled with dangerous deities, half-gods, and abundant lost treasures. Did the ancient inhabitants of Honduras once live in a city made completely …
Ancient Mummies Found in Egypt with Golden Tongues Archaeologists excavating at Qwaisana Archaeological Compound in Egypt have unearthed numerous ancient mummies, and some of them had golden tongues! Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities recently announced the new discoveries in a Facebook post. Dr. Mustafa Waziri, secretary-general of the Supreme Council for Archaeology, said that …
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Axe-Wounded Visby Warrior Brought to Life Over 600 Years Later A medieval warrior’s skull, recovered from a mass grave outside Visby, a city on the Swedish island of Gotland, has been brought to life by a digital artist. Killed in the 1361 AD Battle of Visby, in which 2,500 Danish warriors, mostly heavily-armed mercenaries, massacred …
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The Tuli Mummy: A Remarkable Discovery of Botswana’s Greatest Ancient Mummified Ever Found The mummification process was well-known and practiced by many ancient civilizations. Various mummification techniques were used and ancient people wanted to preserve the body of the deceased for a variety of reasons, depending on their religious beliefs. Ancient mummies have been discovered …
What were remains of 1,000-year-old African skeleton doing in England? HISTORIANS have given their theories of how a young African woman came to be found in a Fairford river, 1,000 years after her death. Fairford schoolboys Christian Thompson and Robbie Cribley made the discovery in June as they stumbled across a human skull while paddling …
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The Mysterious Remains Of A Family From The 18th Century Are Found In A Crate 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 …
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A Medieval warrior’s skull, recovered from a Mass grave outside Visby A medieval warrior’s skull, recovered from a mass grave outside Visby, a city on the Swedish island of Gotland, has been brought to life by a digital artist. Killed in the 1361 AD Battle of Visby, in which 2,500 Danish warriors, mostly heavily-armed mercenaries, …
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Cats and babies: Thousand-year-old mummies in Turkey’s Aksaray The museum at Aksaray, the gateway of Turkey’s Cappadocia region to the West, holds a very special mummy section that displays as many as 13 local mummies to interested visitors. Astonishingly, apart from adult humans, the mummies include babies and even a cat, and are believed to …
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Ancient Chinese woman faced brutal ‘yue’ punishment, had foot cut off, skeleton reveals Nearly 3,000 years ago, the foot of a Chinese woman was cut off in an amputation — probably not for a medical condition, but as punishment for committing a criminal act, a new study of her bones suggests. It’s one of the …
