Author: Miss Cellania / Source: Neatorama Last fall, archaeologists working on an upper-class family tomb in Henan province, China, recovered a bronze pot with almost a gallon of 2,000-year-old liquid. It smelled of alcohol, so they assumed it was wine. Despite the rare vintage, apparently no one

Author: Jessica Leigh Hester / Source: Atlas Obscura When British archaeologist Howard Carter cracked into Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922, he was dazzled by the contents—“Gem-Studded Relics in Egyptian Tomb Amaze Explorers,” The New York Times declared—but he wasn’t especially impressed by its walls.

Author: Miss Cellania / Source: Neatorama We’ve seen some really strange gravestones and epitaphs here at Neatorama. People can get really creative in memorializing the dearly departed, so much so that many large cemeteries, parishes, and churches in ages past would appoint a censor to make sure

В некрополе Эль-Ассасиф, расположенном недалеко от древнего египетского города Луксор, обнаружили гробницу с мумией женщины. В Эль-Ассасиф традиционно хоронили представителей знати. Там же находятся могилы фараонов, которые правили примерно с 1550 по 525 годы до нашей эры. The opening of an

Author: Bruce Bower / Source: Science News DENVER — Three jugs placed as offerings in a roughly 3,600-year-old tomb in Israel have revealed a sweet surprise — evidence of the oldest known use of vanilla. Until now, vanilla was thought to have originated in Mexico, perhaps 1,000 years ago or