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A Socketed Copper Adze Found in Northwestern Ontario Several Years Ago. It Was Made by the Old Copper Complex of North America, ca. 8000-1000 B.C.E.
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A Socketed Copper Adze Found in Northwestern Ontario Several Years Ago. It Was Made by the Old Copper Complex of North America, ca. 8000-1000 B.C.E.
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The Old Copper Culture: North America's Forgotten Copper Age -
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The Old Copper Culture: North America's Forgotten Copper Age -
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An Old Copper Culture II-A dagger recovered several years ago by Harold Alanen from Ontario's Thunder Bay District. It's almost 23" long and about 1.4 lbs . It's currently the largest II-A known. ca. 4000-1000 B.C.E.
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An Old Copper Culture II-A dagger recovered several years ago by Harold Alanen from Ontario's Thunder Bay District. It's almost 23" long and about 1.4 lbs . It's currently the largest II-A known. ca. 4000-1000 B.C.E.
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The Vimose coat is a 22-pound piece of chain armor thrown into a Danish bog as a victory offering after battle some 1,800 years ago. Made by hand from nearly 20,000 tiny iron rings, it is the oldest completely preserved chain mail from Northern Europe
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The Vimose coat is a 22-pound piece of chain armor thrown into a Danish bog as a victory offering after battle some 1,800 years ago. Made by hand from nearly 20,000 tiny iron rings, it is the oldest completely preserved chain mail from Northern Europe
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4000 years old, this male figure with scaled skin is attributed to Archaeological Complex of Bactria Margiana or eastern Iran. It is made of chlorite, calcite, gold, and iron.
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4000 years old, this male figure with scaled skin is attributed to Archaeological Complex of Bactria Margiana or eastern Iran. It is made of chlorite, calcite, gold, and iron.
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For the first time in 200 years, the Parthenon’s exterior is completely free of scaffolding on all sides. It’s also the first time in 20 years that the western side has been scaffold-free. At least six generations have never seen the Parthenon unobstructed.
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For the first time in 200 years, the Parthenon’s exterior is completely free of scaffolding on all sides. It’s also the first time in 20 years that the western side has been scaffold-free. At least six generations have never seen the Parthenon unobstructed.
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The oldest mask in the world, found in the Judean Desert, made 9000 years ago
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The oldest mask in the world, found in the Judean Desert, made 9000 years ago
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A mummy with a tongue made from gold foil found at the Taposiris Magna Temple in Western Alexandria, Egypt. Ca. 400 BC.
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A mummy with a tongue made from gold foil found at the Taposiris Magna Temple in Western Alexandria, Egypt. Ca. 400 BC.
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A soapstone container containing several hundred gold coins from the Roman Empire was found in the center of the Italian city of Como.
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A soapstone container containing several hundred gold coins from the Roman Empire was found in the center of the Italian city of Como.
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The oldest wooden tools ever found, created 430,000 years ago, were recently discovered in southern Greece
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The oldest wooden tools ever found, created 430,000 years ago, were recently discovered in southern Greece
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Southwest Museum archaeologist Anne Watkins holds an enormous obsidian blade, found by the Wilder brothers after it was unearthed by an earthquake in northern California. Purchased by Gen. Charles Reeve and donated by him to the Autry Museum of the American West
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Southwest Museum archaeologist Anne Watkins holds an enormous obsidian blade, found by the Wilder brothers after it was unearthed by an earthquake in northern California. Purchased by Gen. Charles Reeve and donated by him to the Autry Museum of the American West
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Native American rock art in the Lower Pecos Canyonlands of Texas and northern Mexico, with a tradition lasting over 4,000 years and beginning nearly 6,000 years ago.
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Native American rock art in the Lower Pecos Canyonlands of Texas and northern Mexico, with a tradition lasting over 4,000 years and beginning nearly 6,000 years ago.
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The 9445-year-old Spirit Cave mummy, discovered in 1940 in Spirit Cave in Nevada, is the oldest human mummy found in North America. The mummified man was found to be wearing moccasins and wrapped in a tule matt and a rabbit-skin blanket
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The 9445-year-old Spirit Cave mummy, discovered in 1940 in Spirit Cave in Nevada, is the oldest human mummy found in North America. The mummified man was found to be wearing moccasins and wrapped in a tule matt and a rabbit-skin blanket
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The Pilling Figurines are a set of eleven clay figurines made by the Fremont culture around 1000 years ago. They were discovered in 1950 under a rock overhang in a side canyon of Range Creek, Utah, and are now housed at the USU Eastern Prehistoric Museum
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The Pilling Figurines are a set of eleven clay figurines made by the Fremont culture around 1000 years ago. They were discovered in 1950 under a rock overhang in a side canyon of Range Creek, Utah, and are now housed at the USU Eastern Prehistoric Museum
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Edith Howard Cook was an American child who died at the age of 2 years 10 months-
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Edith Howard Cook was an American child who died at the age of 2 years 10 months-
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A relief of Ereshkigal, the Sumerian goddess of death and the underworld, which was created over 3,800 years ago in what's believed to be present day southern Iraq. It is now on display at the British Museum in London.
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A relief of Ereshkigal, the Sumerian goddess of death and the underworld, which was created over 3,800 years ago in what's believed to be present day southern Iraq. It is now on display at the British Museum in London.
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Archaeologists have unearthed, in 2015, the oldest case of decapitation ever found in the New World. The skull belonged to a young man and was buried in Brazil about 9,000 years old, with severed hands covering its face in a mysterious pose
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Archaeologists have unearthed, in 2015, the oldest case of decapitation ever found in the New World. The skull belonged to a young man and was buried in Brazil about 9,000 years old, with severed hands covering its face in a mysterious pose
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