A mass grave containing the skeletons of 51 horses has been uncovered in the Netherlands. The bones date from the seventeenth century. “It is easy to imagine this is how cavalry men might dispose of dead mounts in war time,” said contract archaeologist Angela Simons. A team of scientists from the U.S. and Britain has […]

“Move the door jamb up and make the passage wider,” is one of the inscriptions found in an unfinished tunnel in the tomb of Pharaoh Seti I in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings. Though discovered in 1960, the tunnel has only now been completely cleared, revealing preliminary decoration sketches and instructions left by the architect. […]