Ancient Egyptian alcohol and sexual festivals
Listen, it seems to be the festival of rebellious youths: Everyone drank beer, beat the cup, smashed, immersed in endless rain clouds. They woke up the next morning in l…
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Listen, it seems to be the festival of rebellious youths: Everyone drank beer, beat the cup, smashed, immersed in endless rain clouds. They woke up the next morning in l…
Archaeologists discovered a mass grave of 200 French soldiers believed to be from Napoleon Bonaparte's army in the western district of Roedelheim in Frankfurt, Germany.
A scholar is conducting a reconstruction of a 4,000-year-old Book of the Dead about the mystical mantras and the ancient Egyptian gods.
On September 15, an ancient tomb features many characteristics of the Ma Wang dynasty Double Han dynasty, which was discovered at a construction site in Kaifu District,…
A Dutch researcher has examined the jaw of prehistoric mastodon. This 2.5 million-year-old fossil can provide an understanding of the primordial causes of primitive elep…
The big storm turned on the original 215-year-old oak tree in western Ireland, revealing an estimated 1,000-year-old remains buried in the roots.
In 2005, while excavating a grave near the city of Thebes, Greece, scientists found a huge fake toe attached to a mummy's leg. So far it is still considered the first pr…
A group of Italian scientists has found the skeleton most likely belongs to Lisa Gherardini, who is believed to be the archetype of the famous Mono Lisa painting.
The Baghdad battery, built 2,000 years ago, is capable of generating electricity greater than one volt.
Iron ore miners in northwestern China were stunned when digging up stones like pork
Specimens with thousands of years of lifespan reflect the evolutionary history of the earth's crust from early childhood. Each specimen bears its own mark on the process…
German scientists found a 7,000-year-old mass grave containing at least 26 adult and child skeletons with a broken skull and broken femur, evidence of a massacre at the…
An ancient marriage contract of nearly 2.5 meters long revealed that ancient Egyptian women were really tough negotiators. They make sure they are still provided with mo…
After years of studying fossils of a tree more than 125 million years ago and living in the water, American scientists have recently concluded that this is the first flo…
According to scientists, this sacred hole is capable of destroying the entire structure of the ancient Mayan pyramid.