An incredibly well-preserved limestone sarcophagus and numerous funeral statuettes known as ushabti have been discovered by Egyptian archaeologists. The find at the Gharaifa site in Tuna al-Jabal near the city of Minya, located in Upper Egypt, was announced by officials on Monday, 21st September. The white limestone sarcophagus is decorated…
Archaeologists have discovered the remains of at least four Viking warriors who probably worked as debt collectors for a local warlord at a medieval grave site in a small Polish village. The 11th-century remains were found at the medieval burial ground in the village of Cieple in the northern Polish…
These images show the pre-Hispanic burial cave packed with the bones of around 80 people which has been found in the Canary islands by an amateur archaeology group. The archaeological discovery took place on a crag on the island of Gran Canaria in the Spanish Canary Islands next to the…
Picture Credit: CEN/Mario Kokaj These images show a Roman chariot complete with the fossilised remains of horses which archaeologists have found as part of a burial ritual for “extremely wealthy families”. Archaeologists from the City Museum Vinkovci and Institute of Archaeology from Zagreb have discovered a Roman carriage on two…
Story By: Bartosz Staszewski, Sub Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: Central European News Scientists have discovered that the skeleton of a "princess" found in a hollowed-out tree trunk that was thrown off a cliff as part of a lavish burial ceremony lived around 2,000 years ago. Picture Credits: CEN/Marta Chmiel-Chrzanowska &…
