All the mummies, which are depicted in the photographs, at different times exhibited in the Cairo Egyptian Museum.
The author of the compilation is the British Egyptologist and anthropologist Grafton Eliot Smith, who added the mummies to his catalog in...
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Rare photos of mummies from the British Egyptologist's catalog
They counted for half a year: in Germany, a man left a legacy of 1.2 million coins
A German from the town of Bremerferde left an unusual legacy to his children: 1.2 million coins in denominations of 1 and 2 pfenig. In 2002, after the transition of Germany to the euro, these coins were withdrawn from circulation.
A man has been...
Traces of ancient civilization discovered by archaeologists in Laos
Megalithic structures resembling massive stone vessels were found in Laotian forests. 15 plots with 137 vessels, whose age reaches one thousand years, were found in a remote mountainous area.
According to archaeologists, this finding is associated with...
Last years of William Shakespeare
There is a traditional opinion that a few years before his death, Shakespeare moved to Stratford. Shakespeare's first biographer, who transmitted such an opinion, was Rowe.
One of the reasons for this is that the London public theaters repeatedly...
Electron discovery
It is considered to be the first to introduce the idea of the divisibility of matter into many small and therefore invisible particles, atoms, advanced by the ancient Greek philosopher Leucippus. The doctrine of Leucippus was developed by his student...
Mykola Kostomarov - a sign personality for the Ukrainian revival
In 1861-1862 in St. Petersburg, Kulish, together with Shevchenko and Kostomarov, published the journal Osnova, where texts in Ukrainian and Russian were published. A number of scientific-polemical and journalistic works of Kostomarov were placed in...
Porcelain, coins and silver bars: what was discovered on a sunken Chinese ship?
Nanhai №1 is the code name for a Chinese merchant ship that sank in the South China Sea between 1127 and 1279. It was discovered in 1987 by a team of English experts from Maritime Exploration & Recoveries PLC (MER PLC).
The length of the vessel was...
Jonas Salk and his polio vaccine
Polio is a disease that has been known for more than several millennia. But the writings of ancient scholars dealt only with isolated cases. It was also a rarity for the Middle Ages.
Since the middle of the XIX century, polio begins to appear in...
Why did hundreds of children and lamas become objects of sacrifice in the north of Peru?
The archaeological excavations that were carried out in Peru near the city of Trujillo from 2011 to 2016 were both shocking and interesting. Scientists were able to detect the burial of children and animals with an area of about 700 square meters. And...
A religious idol from the Ming dynasty era was found at the filming site of the documentary
On the northern coast of Eastern Australia, Leon Deschamps and Shane Thomson, directors of Finn Films, are filming a documentary. The film recreates the journey of the French expedition to Australia in the years 1800-1804 during the reign of...