Archaeologists have finished the excavation of an ancient tomb complex in the Lop Nur Desert in the northwest of China, but researchers are baffled, saying they need more time to understand the finds. Archaeologists in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region have unearthed 163 tombs at the Xiaohe Tomb complex, which sprawls over a 2,500-square-metre oval-shaped dune, […]
Archaeological zones are hotspots for those who practice traditional observances of the vernal equinox the halfway point between winter and summer.
LIMA: Peru’s poor Zavaleta family has only one thing to say to the thousands of tourists who trek along the Inca trail to the renowned citadel Machu Picchu every year: “Hey you, get off our land!” The family says it is the lawful owner of a large part of the Machu Picchu sanctuary, Peru’s most […]
Watching the first light of dawn break over the lost Inca city of Machu Picchu, I caught a glimpse of what I had heard so much about since arriving in Peru. {mosimage} A magical aura allied to an awe-inspiring natural beauty has made the citadel one of the most revered archaeological wonders of the world. […]
MAHABALIPURAM, India (AP) – For a few minutes, after the water had receded far from the shore and before it came raging back as a tsunami, the fishermen stood along the beach and stared at the reality of generations of legends. Or so they say. Spread across nearly a mile, the site was encrusted with […]
Turkish Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, a brilliant military strategist, cunning politician and eloquent poet, was having a very bad night. He tossed and turned, dreaming that lions had chased him in a field and greedily fed upon his body. Waking up in a sweat, he called frantically for his advisors. "What does it all mean?" […]
A road crew, working on a stretch of the A1M motorway, stumbled across an unusual burial site that dates back 2,400 years. Archaeologists called to the scene conclude that the man buried there was slender, about five feet, nine inches in height and approximately 30 or 40 years old with a full set of teeth. […]
A team coordinated by Tura Beach archaeologist Dr Judith Cameron has discovered and preserved the oldest complete shroud found in Southeast Asia, dating back some 2,300 years to the Bronze Age Dongson culture. The cloth was found in a wooden boat-shaped coffin covered by thick black mud in a canal in the Red River plains […]
