The Pyramid of Khafre is the second largest of the three pyramids and was built by an estimated 5,000 workers. It took approximately 23 years to construct.
A late 2nd-century skeleton has been discovered with a nail driven through the heel bone at the archaeological site of Fenstaton in the county of Cambridge in eastern England. The first case of crucifixion described in Northern Europe. Talon of the Crucified of Fenstanton Extremely rare! A nearly
A rare piece of glass was discovered during an archaeological dig at Lindisfarne – the small Northumbrian island whose medieval monastery was raided by Vikings in 793 AD, heralding the start of the Viking Age in Britain. The piece was discovered in September 2019 during a community archaeological d
Archaeologists from the University of Leicester discovered the first material evidence of the invasion of Britannia (the name by which the Romans knew the island of Great Britain) by Julius Caesar in 54 BC Based on this evidence, they suggest that the initial landing of the Roman troops was at Pegw
Kyrgyzstans decision to bury its only 1,500-year-old mummy has angered the scientific world. He accuses the authorities of giving in to psychics in this Central Asian country where superstitions remain deeply rooted. Almazbek Atambayev, the outgoing president of Kyrgyzstan, at the UN headquarters