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an elite woman," archaeologist David Palomino told AFP. The mummy was found in Aspero, a sacred site within the city of Caral that was a garbage dump for over 30 years until becoming an ...

Archaeologists in Peru have discovered the burial of an elite woman with remarkable grave goods, including decorative crafts made from a toucan's beak and macaw feathers. The woman lived sometime ...

The status quo in archaeology, when a woman and a man are presented next to each other in tombs and burials like this, has always been to assume that she’s his wife. Yet here, there’s an ...

Imagine being this close to discovering Cleopatra’s lost tomb! A woman archaeologist, Kathleen Martinez, has spent nearly two decades searching for it, and she might have finally cracked the code.

The first women archaeologists in history were Victorian-era adventurers who felt most at home when farthest from it.’ This was the opening line of Amanda Adam’s book Ladies of the field, which ...

Archaeologists have unearthed an “unusual” discovery in Ecuador — the mummified corpse of a pregnant woman who was seemingly murdered and dismembered. The findings were announced in an ...

Within the earthen walls of a fortress in Mongolia’s Dornod Province, archaeologists discovered the twelfth-century burial of a woman who was part of a nomadic group from the Khar Nuur region.

At an Iron Age cemetery in Sweden, archaeologists discovered an unusual grave of a woman interred with an iron folding knife stuck into her burial. When you purchase through links on our site ...