Back in 2016, a team of archaeologists came across an ancient Egyptian mummy with symbolic tattoos that, they believed, were the first of their kind….
An ancient wooden container doesn’t make for a ‘thrilling’ historical discovery, until we bring out the context of such a find. Pertaining to such a…
Like many great cities of history, Ur started out as a lowly village in the Ubaid Period of Mesopotamia, close to circa 4th millennium BC….
The famous site constituting the ancient Greek city of Perga in what is now Turkey’s Antalya province, has been the focus of numerous excavations and…
The historical significance of the Battle of Marathon cannot be overstated, with this pivotal encounter setting the stage for the Greco-Persian wars that continued for…
While a wide range of emoticons are often available at your disposal in the present-day electronic media, the human inclination towards ideograms goes back to…
Back in 1986, archaeologists excavating a site at Bridge of Tilt near Blair Atholl, in Scotland, came across a long cist burial. And inside this…
21 years of excavating at the Shalallat Gardens area in Alexandria have come to fruition for the Greek archaeologists at Hellenic Institute for the Research…
While the Bayeux Tapestry (or Tapete Baiocense in Latin) holds strong in British popular consciousness for its portrayal of the events leading up to the…
Last year, we talked about the massive Gallo-Roman villa that was uncovered at Langrolay-sur-Rance, in Brittany, France. Well this time around, archaeologists are witness to…
