Healing, Purification and Holiness: How Ancient Cultures Used Olive Oil Tamara Lewit/The ConversationToday, olive oil is often hailed as helping to protect against disease, but beliefs in its medicinal or even sacred properties date back millennia.Olive oil was used for healing and...
Mexican Day of the Dead – Bittersweet Remembrance of Departed Ancestors The celebrated Mexican Day of the Dead means one thing for city dwellers and quite another for country folks. george fery 2 November, 2025 - 09:53 Section News History & Archaeology...
Accidental Discovery That Forged the Iron Age Revealed at Ancient Workshop A reanalysis of a 3,000-year-old metallurgical workshop in Georgia has revealed how ancient copper smelters may have accidentally discovered the secret to iron production, fundamentally changing our understanding of...
A Journey Into Chattanooga's Ghostly Supernatural Underground When most attorneys retire, they might take up golf or gardening. Amy Petulla chose a different path entirely – she became Chattanooga's premier ghost tour guide, leading visitors through the shadowy underbelly of...
Exceptionally Preserved Roman Shipwreck Excavated In Croatia After four and a half years of meticulous underwater excavation, maritime archaeologists have completed the documentation of one of the most remarkably preserved Roman shipwrecks ever discovered in the Adriatic Sea. The 2,000-year-old...
12,000-year-old Rock Art Found in Desert Thought Uninhabitable Maria Guagnin et al/The ConversationAbout 12,000 years ago, high up on a cliff in the desert of northern Arabia, an artist (or perhaps artists) was hard at work. Standing on a narrow...
Amenhotep III Tomb Reopens After Two Decades of Meticulous Restoration Egypt has officially reopened one of the most significant royal tombs in the Valley of Kings after completing a remarkable 20-year restoration project. The tomb of Pharaoh Amenhotep III, who...
Mexico Vindicates Woman Long Blamed for Aztec Empire's Collapse For five centuries, La Malinche has carried the burden of being labeled a traitor who facilitated the downfall of the Aztec Empire in 1521. Known by multiple names – Marina to...
Archaeologists Uncover How Ritual Ceremonies Helped Pave the Way for Chinese Unification Archaeologists have excavated three c. 3,000–2,400-year-old ritual structures in Shandong Province, China, indicating that the origins of a shared Chinese cultural identity lie in ceremonial gatherings that sowed...
Ancient Teotihuacan Writing System Cracked By Researchers Danish linguists have achieved a breakthrough that could finally solve one of archaeology's greatest mysteries by deciphering the writing system of ancient Teotihuacan. The discovery reveals that the mysterious symbols adorning the walls...
