Al-Ahram Weekly has more information on the sandstone statue of the goddess Hathor that mysteriously disappeared from its temple at Serabit Al-Khadim, an ancient Egyptian turquoise and copper mine. The sculpture was later found in a nearby cave. The remains of an additional 51 Japanese soldiers have been recovered from mass graves on Iwoto Island, […]

The mummies of a woman and three children from the Huari culture have been discovered in Lima, Peru, in an intact tomb at the top of a pyramid. The tomb is estimated to be 1,150 years old.   At Peru’s 1,400-year-old Moche site of Huaca Colorada, elites lived on the flat-topped pyramids, where they probably presided […]