Ancient Egyptian Head Cones Were Real, Grave Excavations Suggest Most of the garments depicted in ancient Egyptian art are relatively straightforward to decipher, but there’s a particular wearable article that has baffled archaeologists. In statuary, murals, funerary stelae, coffins and relief sculptures dating between 3,570 and 2,000 years ago, people repeatedly appeared wearing cones on …

Italian hospital uses CT scan to unveil secrets of an Egyptian mummy Researchers believe they can reconstruct the life and death of the Egyptian priest and understand which kinds of products were used to mummify the body. Ancient Egypt met modern medical technology when a mummy underwent a CT scan at an Italian hospital as …

Remains of a 7,000-Year-Old Lost City Discovered in Egypt Egypt has announced the discovery of the ruins of a long-lost city in the Upper Egypt province of Sohag, which are believed to be over 7,000 years old. The 5,316 BC residential city, discovered alongside a nearby cemetery, is being hailed as a major archaeological find …

13-foot-long ‘Book of the ᴅᴇᴀᴅ’ scroll found in burial shaft in Egypt Archaeologists in Egypt have unearthed a cache of treasures—including more than 50 wooden sarcophagi, a funerary temple dedicated to an Old Kingdom queen and a 13-foot-long Book of the ᴅᴇᴀᴅ scroll—at the Saqqara necropolis, a vast burial ground south of Cairo, according to …

Fossil child skull from 2.2 million years ago reveals how humans out-smarted the other great apes – and the key is the soft heads of our babies A fossil more than two million years old could help explain why man became so brainy. The Taung fossil, an early hominid that was discovered in South Africa …

Discovery of oldest human decorations — thought to be 82,000 years old The discovery of small perforated seashells, in the Cave of Pigeons in Taforalt, eastern Morocco, has shown that the use of bead adornments in North Africa is older than thought. Dating from 82,000 years ago, the beads are thought to be the oldest …

The Prehistoric Rock Art of Tᴀssili N’Ajjer, Algeria Just Outside the Desert Oasis of Djanet, Algeria, there’s a national park brimming with pieces of the past. A trip through the alien-like landscape of Tᴀssili n’Ajjer is like stepping into an open-air art gallery, where the sandstone rock formations become canvases for more than 15,000 prehistoric …

The Atlantic Ocean was known as the Ethiopian Ocean until the 19th century Up to the 19th century, the southern part of the Atlantic Ocean was formally known as the Ethiopian/Aethiopian Sea in classical geographical works. This was the name that appeared on ancient maps, up to the 19th century. The roots of such etymology …

Medieval Church Excavated in Sudan’s Northern State Science in Poland reports that researchers led by Artur Obłuski of the University of Warsaw have found the remains of a large medieval church in the centre of Old Dongola, Northern State, Sudan. According to, ᴀssist. Prof. Artur Obłuski, the head of the Dongola expedition and the director …