Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed a predynastic cemetery at Abydos in Upper Egypt. With its brick walls, covered with adobe, one of the 5500 year old tombs recently discovered in a predynastic cemetery of Abydos, in the province of Sohag in Upper Egypt. TREASURES. Abydos, the city of the fi
Archaeologists from the University of Western Australia (UWA) have determined that peoples living in ancient north-western Arabia built burial avenues long-distance paths -large roads flanked by thousands of funerary monuments linking oases and pastures-, suggesting a high degree of social and econo
The discovery of carved wood fragments suggests that the first emperor of China, Qin Shi Huangdi, was in search of the elixir of immortality more than 2200 years ago. The terracotta soldiers of Qin Shi Huangdi (221 BC-207 BC) ensured his posterity, but it was immortality that the first emperor of
Walking in it would bring good luck...but not only that! US scientists have used biomarkers from human and animal feces to better estimate the occupation and decline of the pre-Columbian site of Cahokia, North America. The site of Cahokia, one of the largest Amerindian cities in North America at t