The emperor's sister hid the delicacy in the sleeve of her ball gown.
Hermitage restorer Galina Fedorova came across an unexpected gift in the ball gown of Grand Duchess Ksenia Alexandrovna, sister of Russian Emperor...
Researchers from the University of Seville may have managed to locate the long-sought ruins of the temple of the Phoenician god Melkart, whom locals call Hercules Gaditano.
It is a monumental structure in the Gulf...
The remains of ancient animals were wrapped in 100-year-old newspapers.
Two dozen fossils, wrapped in multiple layers of newspaper and tied with twine, were found in wooden boxes on one of the shelves in the...
The process has already begun with paintings by Alexander Sokurov.
The immediate plans are to restore the tape "Taurus" by Alexander Sokurov. The TASS agency was told in the studio that the director's personal participation...
This year alone, 5,300 monuments of ancient Egyptian civilization were uncovered at the Museum of the Bible in Washington.
Over the past 10 years, Egypt has managed to return to its homeland about 30 thousand...
Archaeologists were surprised by the quality and quantity of finds, among which statuettes of women sacrificed stood out.
The funeral temple of Hatshepsut in Deir el-Bahri was built during the reign of the female pharaoh...
In China, archaeologists during excavations in the Shandong province discovered an unusual bone tool - a "shovel", which is at least 99,000 years old. This weapon is already recognized as the oldest ever found...
In Bulgaria, archaeologists have discovered a gold chain with three beads in Roman baths, The history blog reports. Such a find was discovered in the Deultum National Archaeological Reserve, which is located in southeastern...
An extremely rare original copy of the US constitution has sold for $ 43 million - a world record for a historical document sold at auction, Sotheby's said. It is one of only 11...
Morocco is a country located in the northwestern part of Africa, a former French colony. The capital is Rabat. Famous and one of the largest cities in the country are Casablanca and Marrakech.
According to...
The work tells the story of the siege of Orange - a city in the Rhone Valley, France, and is part of a series of epic narrative poems about the legendary hero Guillaume d'Orange
A...
Researchers have rethought the meaning of the pictograms that illustrate the famous Telleriano-Remensis Codex, created in the 16th century in Mexico. It turned out that this document is the first description of earthquakes on...
The toilet is a U-shaped line of seats that 13 actors could use at the same time.
In Turkey, archaeologists have discovered an ancient latrine that allowed at least a dozen people not only to...
The first mentions of the city of Lakhish date back to the 15th century BC, in Egyptian sources it appears no later than the 14th century BC. This ancient city, which the Bible also...
Fragments of pottery, flint tools and bone remains have been discovered in Jordan by archaeologists from the Jagiellonian University under megaliths dating back about 5,000 years. Perhaps these ancient structures were not only burial...
Lancaster nurse Buffy Bailey discovered a miniature golden Bible with the help of a metal detector along with her husband Ian near York.
The security may have once been owned by a royal family.
The 600-year-old...
In 15 BC, in an alpine gorge, a battle took place between the Roman troops and the reta.
Two years ago, Lucas Schmid, an amateur archaeologist and volunteer at the Archaeological Survey of the Canton...
The preserved body of a high-ranking nobleman, discovered in 2019, turns out to be much older than previously thought, which could lead to rewriting of history textbooks
The ancient Egyptians performed complex procedures to mummify...
As a result of the melting ice, archaeologists have found in Norway a pair of wooden skis of amazing preservation, almost 1,300 years old.
I must say that the first ski was discovered in the...
Christina Wurst from the private research center Eurac Research, together with scientists from Italy and Switzerland, analyzed the woman's mitochondrial DNA and found her living relatives.
In 2018, researchers said they were able to identify...
In Turkey, an underwater park takes visitors to the wreckage of 14 British and French warships sunk in the Dardanelles during World War I. The site, located on the Gallipoli Peninsula in northwestern Turkey,...
A sophisticated wine-making facility, the largest of the Byzantine period ever discovered in the world, has been found by archaeologists near the town of Yavne, 24km from Tel Aviv, the Israeli Antiquities Service said....
An inscription on a stone slab of 3200 years, which tells about a Trojan prince and who is from the mysterious sea peoples, was read, archaeologists announced yesterday, October 7, Live Science reported.
The 29-meter-long...
On August 27, 2021 in the Archaeological Museum of Burgas will be opened an exhibition dedicated to the results of archaeological underwater research of the Center for Underwater Archeology and the National History Museum...