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A detail of a painted dromos and dome camera from a tumulus near Aleksandrovo village, Haskovo district, Bulgaria. The dromos has battle scenes while the burial chamber has a hunting scene, unfolded in a circle, and...

A burial mound at the Nazca site of Cahuachi, southern Peru. The 40 mounds at the site are built on natural hilltops using earth and adobe-brick retaining walls. The site was used for burials and religious ceremonies between...

This burial urn was discovered near the ancient Erebuni Fortress. It dates from the 8th century BCE and is made from baked clay. (Erebuni Historical and Archaeological Preserve, Yerevan, Armenia.)

The Bronze Age Aegean in the eastern Mediterranean encompassed several powerful entities: the Minoans on Crete; the Mycenaeans on mainland Greece, and the Cypriots on Cyprus. These cultures...

Right outside the cities of Fredrikstad and Sarpsborg in South-East Norway, there are two archaeological, intriguing and beautiful sites, the Hunnfelt, a monument consisting of several stone circles...

A funerary garment from the Han dynasty (2nd century BCE - 2 century CE). Made from hundreds of small rectangles of jade stitched together using gold and silver wire, they were used to completely encase the body of deceased...

US soldiers place frozen corpses of Native Americans in a mass grave after the Wounded Knee Massacre of 29 December 1890. Photo by Trager and Kuhn, 1 January 1891, Wounded Knee, South Dakota...

When Lake Sevan's water dropped due to hydroelectric production in 1950, countless graves and other ancient artifacts were uncovered in Lchashen, Armenia. Over the decades, 800 graves were discovered the majority...

This chambered entrance grave is found on the island of St. Mary's in the Isles of Scilly. It consists of a rectangular chamber and capstones on top. The exact date it was built is still unknown, but pottery found...

A great deal has been written about why the prehistoric monument of Stonehenge, in Wiltshire, southern England, was constructed. Perhaps it was designed as a temple to the ancestors, an astronomical calendar, a healing centre...