Archaeologists conducting excavations in Egypt's Saqqara region have discovered a 5,000-year-old manuscript containing a "terrifying message," according to The Mirror. Unearthed inside a sealed ...

From ancient cultures to present day, some birds' symbolic reputations fly with them. Some are symbols of death, while others ...

According to the late Greek archaeologist Dr George Hourmouziadis, who scrutinized the tablet until his death in 2013 ... echoes back to still more ancient symbols — including an 'open-angle ...

Ancient remains with a death whistle. “Given both the aversive ... to suspect that these petrifying piccolos may have been symbols of Ehecatl, the Aztec God of Wind who “traveled to the ...

“These recent findings suggest intentional burials, the use of symbols ... brained species of ancient human relatives was performing complex practices related to death,” said Lee Berger ...

When, at a slightly older age, I began to study death and the ancient world what struck me most, despite many fascinating cultural variants, was the uniformity, and limitation of the human ...

An analysis of ancient “nailed heads” from Spain found some local skulls, likely symbols of respect, and foreign ones, likely symbols of intimidation. Photo from the Autonomous University of ...

The ancient Celts, the people who lived in Britain and Ireland from 500BC to 400AD, considered their Celtic symbols and signs ... spirit; birth, death, rebirth. An interweaving, diamond-shaped ...

Check out Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4. With few exceptions, ancient humans painted the same 32 symbols in caves all over Europe. Paleoanthropologist Genevieve von Petzinger asks: What were they ...