Peruvian Infant Mummy Now on Exhibit with Mummies of the World

The Detmold Child, a 6,420 year old Peruvian infant mummy in a remarkable state of preservation that is gaining enormous interest, is currently on exhibit as part of the nationally touring Mummies of the World. The Detmold Child is an embalmed Peruvian...

Kukhak Nokor on the way

Sihanoukville. Every ancient temple or archeological site in Cambodia and Southeast Asia is just a wonder. Of course, there are places that are more wonderful than others, but it depends of the like of...

Delaware may find its Egyptian and emipirical roots

Discoveries in archaeology in the Americas to distinguish findings and people in a state in their relation to world events has usually been focused on those arrivals somewhat prior to the 1600,s and thereafter the...

Queen Eadgyth: Remains of English Queen found in Germany

The remains of a woman believed to be Queen Eadgyth, an early English monarch, was found in a tomb beneath the Magdeburg Catherdral in Germany. Queen Eadgyth (also being called Princess Ealdgyth), was the sister of King Athelstan, who ruled England from 924-939 AD, daughter...

5 Sunken Roman Ships Found near Italian Island Ventotene

Archaeologists found 5 ancient Roman shipwrecks off a small Italian island Ventotene. The sunken ships date from the 1st century BC to 5th century AD. The ships from the Roman-era are very well presevered as they lie untouched between 330 to 490 feet underwater. The discovery...

Oldest Musical Instrument Discovered by Archaeologists

An article I wrote about the recent find in Germany. "Archaeologist  Nicholas Conard of the University of Tübingen in Germany stated the earliest finds of this kind previously dated from around 35,000 years...

LADY DAI, World's Best Preserved Mummy

Who would have thought the world's best preserved mummy is not from Egypt or from the Aztecs BUT from China? Known as Lady Dai, this Western Han Dynasty's noblewomen was buried in style. She was buried in the innermost of four nested lacquer coffins with a vertitable wealth...

Archaeology: Move Over Venus of Willendorf

For the past hundred years the carved figure known as the Venus of Willendorf has been among the oldest carved artworks. It was discovered in a village in Austria and dated to between 22 000 and 24 000 BC. Now a new discovery highlighted in the Nature Publishing Journal...

Lost City of Atlantis Found!!! No Joke

The UK Sun is running an article suggesting that Atlantis may have been found by a Google satellite. The report seems to be verified by the writings of Greek Philosopher Plato and where he indicated Atlantis...

An Archaeological Site Older than Moenjodaro Found in Pakistan

There is much excitement at the discovery of a possibly 9,000 year old archaeological site found in Sukkur, Pakistan. Sukkur is located at the bank of the River Indus in the province of Sindh. Moenjodaro and...

SecondLife.com: Are Virtual Worlds the Future of Education?

SecondLife.com, or Second Life, is an interactive "internet-based virtual world", which people enter in the form of a digital "avatar". The visual quality and number of environments, options and opportunities continues to expand- in addition to being a place where people...

DIG IT! That what must remain hidden

Archaeological remains define us. They constitute the collective memory of our culture. As pages in a book, layer upon layer of dirt harbours precious proof of what we once were. When dug up and studied...

3D Virtual Reality Environment Developed at UC San Diego Helps Scientists Inn...

Coming soon to your living room; full immersion "virtual reality" extreme sports, action, romance, horror, scifi and shopping"The StarCAVE is a five-sided virtual reality (VR) room where scientific models and animations are projected in stereo on 360-degree screens...

Big archaeology find in Egypt

While it has been historically difficult to get access to dig and study ruins in Egypt, a University of Chicago expedition has discovered a large administration building and silos dating back to early Egyptian...

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