A tomb believed to be over 2,600 years old belonging to a royal member of the Xirong civilisation has been discovered in China alongside the remains of five human sacrifices. The tomb, which was unearthed at Xuyang Cemetery in the city of Luoyang in China’s Henan Province, is considered to…
A 1,200-year-old baptismal font has been seized by the police after receiving a tip off about it being sold online for GBP 9,500 by a Turkish farmer who found it in his field. The ancient historical monument was recently confiscated in the district of Ortakoy in the Turkish province of…
An unopened letter from 1987 has at long last reunited a headless Pharaoh statue in the Netherlands with a bodiless statue in the US in what has been described as being “like a plot for a movie or a book”. According to Egyptologists Lara Weiss and Rob Demaree from the…
A tablet engraved with Biblical quotes has been discovered in a 13th-Century clergyman's grave along with bronze brooches and remains of gold-woven textiles dating back to the early Byzantine and Christian periods. The remains were discovered during recent excavations at the ruins of the ancient Monastery of Virgin Mary in…
A 4,200-year-old goddess statue from the Early Bronze Age has been found in an archaeological site in central Turkey where digs have been carried out for over 70 years. Prof. Dr. Fikri Kulakoglu said that the goddess statue they unearthed at the Kultepe archaeological site in the central Turkish province…
