Along with Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster and the Wolfman, themummyis one of the great figures of the classic horror-movie genre. And it's easy to see why: In a sense, mummies are real-life, tangible ghosts. They are bodies that stick around long after death. The most familiar mum...
While the Shuar have long been resentful of encroachment and unwanted rule, as the 1599 uprising demonstrates, they're also amenable to visitors and what they consider fair trade. The 1921 National Geographic ethnography on the Shuar reported, "we found them a good natured people and very frie...
They Lost Their Heads! What Happened to Washington's Teeth, Einstein's Brain, and Other Famous Body Parts Be prepared to gag a little bit as you enjoy this gruesome collection of stories about unfortunate people who lost body parts in life or death. But also be ready to amaze the people...
However, mummies are not exclusively found in Egypt, although they seem to be the most famous ones. Believe it or not, they weren’t even the earliest mummified bodies! The oldest naturally created mummy isÖtzi, a 9500-year-old Paleolithic man whose remains were found in theItalian Alps....
Whether or not they were worshiped as deities, cats were an integral part of ancient Egyptian life. And, based on mummified catsdiscovered in tombs alongside humans, they carried an important role in the afterlife, as well. HISTORY Vault: Engineering an Empire: Egypt ...
In contrast, theEgyptians domesticated a lineage of African cats, including some they mummified. This Egyptian lineage spread across the Mediterranean along trade routes during the first millennium B.C., likely as sailors took cats aboard to hunt vermin, the researchers found. ...
Early cultures used meteorites to craft weapons and jewelry long before anyone knew how to extract iron from ore.
"People always wonder about the great treasures of ancient Egypt," says Tarek El Awady, the curator of "King Tut: Treasures of the Golden Pharaoh," which makes a long U.S. stopover in Boston beginning in June 2020. "The surprise on their faces when they see these beautiful artif...
November, the U.S. recovered these looted antiquities, including a child's sarcophagus and a mummified hand and returned them to the Egyptian embassy. They're among hundreds of objects that Egypt has repatriated from around the world…some go on display in a special exhibit at the Cairo ...
in a way laymen could understand. Most people know about syphilis, tuberculosis, plague, malaria, yellow fever, rabies, etc., but they don’t really understand what happens physiologically and pathologically when one of these diseases sets in. I was going to write a book explaining it all ...