Ancient Egyptian manual reveals new details about mummification According to a statement released by the University of Copenhagen, Sofie Schiødt and her colleagues have found evidence of an ancient Egyptian embalming process in the Papyrus Louvre-Carlsberg, a 3,500-year-old medical text dated to 1450 B.C Embalming was considered a sacred art in ancient Egypt, and knowledge …

Graves of nearly 600 cats and dogs in ancient Egypt may be the world’s oldest pet cemetery A well-preserved burial ground in the researchers consider to be at the very origin of human burial customs has been found in Egypt the skeleton remains of over 600 cats, dogs, monkeys were found carefully laid in individual …

CT Scans Suggest Egyptian Pharaoh Was Brutally Executed on the Battlefield Seqenenre Taa II, the Egyptian pharaoh, may have died on the battlefield, surrounded by attackers carrying daggers, swords, and spears. According to a recent computed tomography (CT) scan of the pharaoh’s damaged mummy, which revealed new facial wounds that ancient embalmers tried to disguise. A …

Ancient beer factory unearthed by archaeologists in Egypt At one of the most famous excavation sites of ancient Egypt, a top antique official said Saturday, American and Egyptian archaeologists have discovered what may be the oldest known beer factory. The factory was discovered in Abydos, an ancient burial ground situated in the desert west of …

Tanzanian rock art reveals trios of mysterious anthropomorphic figures It was recently discovered that the rock art was located at the Amak’hee rock shelter site in the Dodoma Region of central Tanzania found in June 2018. Most of the paintings were made with a reddish dye; there are also five white images. Dr. Maciej Grzelczyk, a …

An amazing discovery in Egypt – The bones of a 3600-year-old giant palm A team of archaeologists has found that one of the palaces in the ancient city of Avaris, in Egypt, has hundreds of human sacrifices hidden beneath the earth. Archaeologists in the past have excavated the skeletons of 16 human hands that were found …

An ancient Egyptian mummy was wrapped in an unusual mud shell As a result, the discovery of a remarkable “mud mummy” from ancient Egypt has shocked archaeologists, who weren’t expecting to find the deceased encased in a hardened mud shell. The “mud carapace” is an unparalleled find; it reveals “a mortuary treatment not previously documented …

Humans Have Been Taking Out Insurance Policies for at Least 30,000 Years Archaeologists say—The same way we trade social media likes or friendship bracelets,  our ancestors swapped bits of ostrich eggshell jewellery 30,000 years ago. Items—shell fragments with holes bored in—would have served as a symbol of the interpersonal links made up of ancient social …

There is a ‘Hidden World’ Beneath The Pyramids of Giza, Experts Claim If you’ve ever seen the pyramids at Giza, you know how beautiful they are. The three monumental pyramids emerge like towering monoliths from a long-forgotten age. The beauty of the pyramids certainly catches the imagination of those who gaze upon them. In order …