Meanwhile, art history buffs ... include pieces from the Inca and Aztec empires and Chinchorro mummies, a funerary technique that's 2,000 years older than the Egyptian method.

a curator of Greek and Roman art at the Tampa Museum of Art. “So, this combination of ingredients may have been used in a dream-vision inducing magic ritual within the context of this dangerous period ...

The Aztec death whistle sounds were also played to human listeners while their brains were being recorded. Brain regions belonging to the affective neural system responded strongly to the sound ...

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Special concoction also contained honey, sesame seeds, pine nuts, licorice, and grapes to make it look like blood.

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The first-ever example of an ancient Egyptian petroglyph depicting a zodiac sign has been discovered at a rock art site on the western bank of the Nile. Consisting of a crudely engraved creature ...

Tomb art often shows the dancers accompanied by Egyptian instruments. One notable instrument was the sistrum, which was made of bars loaded with small metal disks and played like a kind of rattle ...

Travel back through 3,000 years of Egyptian history and come face-to-face with the Statues of Ramesses II and Amenhotep III. The objects in the Egyptian sculpture gallery represent three millennia of ...

Zodiac Symbol of Goat-Fish Found in 2,200-Year-Old Egyptian Rock Art Until now, no one had ever found a sign of the zodiac encoded in Egyptian rock art. But that has all changed, as scholars from ...