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16 Mummies and a Dog in Theban Tomb Reveal Orderly Long‑term Reuse

A new archaeothanatological study shows generations adapted a single burial chamber with changing rituals rather than abandoning funerary practice.

Study Finds Middle Kingdom Princesses Show Bone Signs of Weapons Training

Iron Age Skull Shows Signs of Deliberate Brain Removal, Study Finds

Iliad Fragment Inside Roman-Era Mummy Marks First Known Use of Greek Literature in Mummification

Papyrus of Homer's Iliad Found Inside Mummy in Roman-Era Tomb at Oxyrhynchus

Study Recasts 2,800-Year-Old Serbian Mass Grave as Targeted Killing of Women and Children

Study Recasts Serbian Iron Age Mass Grave as Targeted Massacre

Study Uncovers 2,800-Year-Old Massacre in Serbia That Targeted Women and Children

Cambridge Students Unearth Possible Early Medieval Execution Pit at Wandlebury

Leipzig Team Pinpoints Possible Black Death Mass Grave Near Erfurt

Study Finds Roman Rule Hurt Health in British Cities, Not the Countryside

Study Identifies Seven Men in Croatian Well as Likely Roman Soldiers From A.D. 260 Clash

Stone Age Burials Show Women and Children Interred With Tools as Often as Men

Isotope Study Links 6,000-Year-Old Alsace ‘Victory’ Burials to Outsider Victims

Conservation Reveals Likely Remains of Otto the Great at Magdeburg Cathedral

1,000-Year-Old Chancay Mummy Discovered by Pipeline Workers in Lima

10th-Century Viking Woman Unearthed in Elite Boat Burial on Senja Island

Mass Grave of Roman Soldiers Uncovered in Vienna Offers Rare Glimpse into Ancient Warfare

Archaeologists Discover Long-Lost Tomb of Pharaoh Thutmose II

Archaeologists Uncover Lost Tomb of Pharaoh Thutmosis II in Egypt