In the ancient city of Oxyrhynchus, just west of the Nile, a team led by archaeologists Esther Pons of Spain’s National Archaeological Museum and Maite Mascort of the University of Barcelona ...
Earlier, we wrote about archaeologists finding mummies with gold tongues and colored masks. Also, read about scientists discovering artifacts that significantly impact the theory of human evolution.
Mummies—named after the bitumen tar, mum, used to coat the linen winding strips around them—have long held an almost magical fascination. The "civilized" world was titillated by Egypt's ...
A study of ancient Egyptian mummies has shown that schistosomiasis and malaria hounded the pharaohs. The Nile likely dictated which diseases were most common in ancient Egypt and Nubia. Thirty-one ...
In the late 1980's, perfectly preserved 3000-year-old mummies began appearing in a remote Chinese desert. They had long reddish-blond hair, European features and didn't appear to be the ancestors ...
New archeological discoveries in Egypt have revealed incredible ancient sites, such as the Cemetery of Khuwy and a mysterious ...
This story appears in the November 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. In 1888 an Egyptian farmer digging in the sand near the village of Istabl Antar uncovered a mass grave. The bodies ...
The world’s oldest mummies aren’t found in Egypt, but in the sands of Chile’s Atacama Desert. The oldest dates to an astonishing 5000 B.C., and even the youngest are nearly 5,000 years old.
Gold has been an essential component in the financial reserves of nations for centuries, and its appeal is showing no sign of diminishing, with central banks set to be net purchasers of gold once ...
If you plan to diversify your portfolio in light of recent events, investing in gold stocks could be a good choice. Gold stocks not only track the movements of gold prices that tend to rise in ...
While gold investing has been enticing for decades, the glimmer of gold has been shining brighter recently, especially over the last few months. That's due, in part, to the precious metal seeing ...
Gold is often considered a safe haven. That means it can help store value for investors during tough economic times and inflationary periods. That's why so many investors allocate at least a small ...