Tag: ArchaeoHeritage
Wild animals were routinely captured and traded in ancient Mesoamerica
New evidence from the Maya city of Copan, in Honduras, reveals that ancient Mesoamericans routinely captured and traded wild animals for symbolic and ritual...
High status female found buried at Aspero archaeological site in Peru
Archaeologist Ruth Shady and her research team found the remains of a high-status woman buried about 4,500 years ago at the archaeological site of...
At least 114 Maya children sacrificed in Belize cave
Grim discoveries in Belize’s aptly named Midnight Terror Cave shed light on a long tradition of child sacrifices in ancient Maya society.
Bones found in...
Egyptian amulet with name of Thutmose III found
A rare amulet more than 3,200 years old bearing the name of the Egyptian ruler Tuthmose III, Pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty (who reigned...
Recent finds at the ancient city of Philadelphia
Surgical instruments and burial chambers unearthed during excavations in the Graeco-Roman city of Philadelphia in Turkey's Central Anatolian province of Karaman have boosted the...
Solving the mystery of the mummified lung
In 1959 a preserved lung was found by archaeologist Michel Fleury in a stone sarcophagus in the Basilica of St. Denis, in Paris. At...