FBI cracks the case of the 4,000-year-old mummy’s head A team of forensic scientists has managed to extract DNA from a 4,000-year-old mummy, and their finding has solved a century-old mystery of its ransacked tomb. The Egyptian mummy wasn’t a fully preserved corpse, but rather a decapitated, mutilated, bandage-wrapped head that archaeologists found on top …

Who built the Egyptian pyramids? The pyramids of Egypt are a marvel of archaeology, soaring high above the desert sands and visible for miles. Who were the people who managed to construct these pyramids, which was obviously a monumental task? Many hypotheses exist concerning who constructed Egypt’s pyramids, including mᴀssive groups of enslaved Jewish and wilder …

‘Extinct Fossil Fish’ Dating Back 420 Million Years Found Alive in Madagascar Shark hunters have rediscovered a population of fish that predates dinosaurs that many believed to be extinct. The “four-legged fossil fish” known as the coelacanth, has been found alive and well in the West Indian Ocean off the coast of Madagascar, according to Mongabay …

Pre-Human Fossils Suggest Mankind Emerged From Europe Rather Than Africa The common lineage of great apes and humans split several hundred thousand earlier than hitherto ᴀssumed, according to an international research team headed by Professor Madelaine Böhme from the Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment at the University of Tübingen and Professor Nikolai Spᴀssov …

Africa’s Oldest Human Grave Found, Toddler Buried With Pillow 78,000 Years Ago A village in East Africa buried a boy aged around 3 years old 78,000 years ago. Its caretakers dug a shallow pit, curled its small body, and may have rested its head on a pillow before committing the body to the earth. According to …

What is this Bizarre structure found in the Egyptian desert? To some viewers, it looks like a landing strip for extraterrestrial spacecraft — or perhaps the portal to a parallel universe, if not an ancient monument to a benevolent deity who had a keen eye for design and symmetry. But what people are actually seeing …

Egyptian mummy believed to be of a male priest turns out to be a pregnant woman According to the AFP, X-rays of a 2,000-year-old Egyptian mummy kept at Poland’s National Museum since 1917 showed the remains of a woman with long, curly hair who died between 26 and 30 weeks pregnant. Marzena Ozarek-Szilke, an anthropologist …

More Than 100 Burials Uncovered in Egypt’s Nile Delta According to an Ahram Online report, 110 burials containing the remains of adults and children have been found at the Koum el-Khulgan archaeological site in the Nile Delta region of northern Egypt.  Some of the graves discovered at the Koum el-Khulgan archaeological site in Dakahlia province were found …

Mysterious Giant Objects Discovered Near The Egyptian Pyramids On The Giza Plateau It would seem that near the famous pyramids in Egypt, everything has long been known. But, thanks to new technologies and clear high-quality images from space, new details began to be discovered. At first glance, it seems to be nothing ordinary – pyramids, …