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The Baghdad Battery is the name given to a set of three artifacts which were found together: a ceramic pot, a tube of copper, and a rod of iron. It was discovered in present-day Khujut Rabu , Iraq in 1936, close to the ancient city of Ctesiphon , the capital of the Parthian (150 BC – 223 AD) and Sasanian (224–650 AD) empires, and it is ...
The Mysteries of Osiris, also known as Osirism, [1] were religious festivities celebrated in ancient Egypt to commemorate the murder and regeneration of Osiris.The course of the ceremonies is attested by various written sources, but the most important document is the Ritual of the Mysteries of Osiris in the Month of Khoiak, a compilation of Middle Kingdom texts engraved during the Ptolemaic ...
The artifact is about 4.3 inches long. One side of the ax has a lighter brown patch that almost looks like the center of a circle. The other side is darker brown with two small indents near the ...
A votive plaque known as the Ninnion Tablet depicting elements of the Eleusinian Mysteries, discovered in the sanctuary at Eleusis (mid-4th century BC). The Eleusinian Mysteries (Greek: Ἐλευσίνια Μυστήρια, romanized: Eleusínia Mystḗria) were initiations held every year for the cult of Demeter and Persephone based at the Panhellenic Sanctuary of Eleusis in ancient Greece.
Other artifacts were made “using animal remains include a stitched hide boot and carved antler and bone tools.” A 3,000-year-old pair of stick wrapped in animal hide found in the ice.
A trove of artifacts from Egypt’s last dynasty has been discovered in 63 tombs in the Nile Delta area and experts are working to restore and classify the finds, an official with the country’s ...
Tell Abu Hureyra (Arabic: تل أبو هريرة) is a prehistoric archaeological site in the Upper Euphrates valley in Syria.The tell was inhabited between 13,300 and 7,800 cal. BP [1] in two main phases: Abu Hureyra 1, dated to the Epipalaeolithic, was a village of sedentary hunter-gatherers; Abu Hureyra 2, dated to the Pre-Pottery Neolithic, was home to some of the world's first farmers. [2]
A trove of artifacts discovered in sacrificial pits at the Sanxingdui archaeological site shed new light on China's ancient Shu kingdom. Newly found Chinese artifacts illuminate mysterious ancient ...