Sacred Boars and Painted Coffins: the Tell Kom Aziza Cemetery Rewrites Funerary History
In the Nile Delta, archaeologists have uncovered an exceptional Greco-Roman cemetery: seven centuries of funerary syncretism, wild boars bu…
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From 3 million years ago to the dawn of our era: archaeological discoveries, palaeogenetics, cave art and the great transformations of human societies.
In the Nile Delta, archaeologists have uncovered an exceptional Greco-Roman cemetery: seven centuries of funerary syncretism, wild boars bu…
Read →Gold earrings, gold-plated scarabs, obsidian kohl containers: Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities has announced the first near-complete …
Read →In a cairn in northern Scotland, a woman's bones were shaped into points and edges, used, then carefully returned to their anatomical posit…
Read →Deep in a South African cave lie some twenty individuals of an extinct, tiny-brained humanity. Analysis of their proteins has just delivere…
Read →At Jabal al-Tayr in Middle Egypt, a vast necropolis five millennia old reveals the evolution of funerary architecture, from the tombs of ea…
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