Two duck-billed dinosaur carcasses were preserved in a thin layer of clay for 66 million years. Now, they’ve helped ...
Many unexpected human artifacts have been preserved, for centuries, in vulture nests. This sandal woven from grasses and twigs, called an agobía, is somewhere between 727 and 771 years old, ...
A clay layer one-hundredth of an inch thick preserves the fleshy details of dinosaurs buried suddenly in east-central Wyoming ...
Edmontosaurus, which munched plants with its broad and flat snout that vaguely resembled a duckbill, roamed western North ...
Researchers reveal that a 66-million-year-old “dinosaur mummy” wasn’t preserved skin but a thin clay film that perfectly ...
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Could Cleopatra’s Tomb Finally Be Found?

After over a decade of excavation at Taposiris Magna west of Alexandria, the discovery of coins, statues and a submerged ancient port suggest that Cleopatra VII and Mark Antony may have been buried ...
Wyoming’s “dinosaur mummies,” once thought to preserve fossilized flesh, are actually detailed clay molds formed by microbes ...
Movies are among the most powerful drivers of pop culture, which is why the images and ideas they present often leave a ...
The mummy portraits are stunning. Their production began around 30-40 ce, sixty or so years after the defeat of ...
Could this mysterious crystal head buried in the ruins of Cleopatra's temple depict Marc Antony? Archaeologists uncovered a mysterious crystal artifact buried in the underwater ruins of Cleopatra’s ...