Ancient DNA Reveals A Diverse Community Lived At Machu Picchu, The ‘Lost City Of The Incas’ Who lived at Machu Picchu at its height? A new study used ancient DNA to find out for the first time where workers buried more…
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Ancient Roman Women Wore Bikini In 1400 B.C. We tend to think the bikini is a modern fashion invention. Still, there is evidence ancient Roman women were familiar with two-piece garments already in 1,400 B.C., if not even earlier. The…
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Burial Site with Dozens of Skeletons Discovered in France Archaeologists from the National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research (INRAP) have uncovered a significant Burial site near Lac du Bourget in the Savoie department of France. This cemetery believed to date…
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Ancient Hair Reveals Traces of Hallucinogenic Drugs Taken 3,600 Years Ago Long before the counter-culture revolution of the 1960s, Bronze Age Europeans were tuning in and dropping out on hallucinogenic drugs. While archaeologists have long had their suspicions, a new…
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4,500-Year-Old Ramp Contraption May Have Been Used to Build Egypt’s Great Pyramid In a 4,500-year-old quarry in Egypt, archaeologists have uncovered an ancient ramp structure that could justify how the ancient Egyptians constructed the pyramids. According to researchers from the University of…
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