A British researcher has published a study that provides clear evidence for the Stonehenge solar calendar theory, and that the idea was imported from Egypt!
People in the Chincha valley of Peru threaded the spines of the dead onto wooden rods around 500 years ago, a mostly-unknown practice only recently documented by archaeologists. It may have been an attempt to restore the bodies of the dead during...
Medieval Peruvians threaded the disarticulated spines of their relatives on sticks in an attempt to repair the damage done by European graverobbers greedy for gold.
People in the Chincha valley of Peru threaded the spines of the dead onto wooden rods around 500 years ago, a mostly-unknown practice only recently documented by archaeologists. It may have been an attempt to restore the bodies of the dead during...
It looks like a gruesome mortuary practice, but the 16th century Andean communities were probably just desperately trying to avoid desecration at the hands of colonialists.
For a long time, a lintel at the Allat Temple in Hatra, Iraq was just 10 camels but now researchers have proven that these are among the earliest camel hybrids.
A new study has reinterpreted the 1897 finding of 5,000-year-old silver and gold tubes in a Russian burial mound, and concluded they were drinking straws!