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Ancient ship and burial ground discovered in underwater city in Egypt

Galley sunk when it was slammed with blocks from famous temple of Amun. Archaeologists have discovered the 2,200-year-old wreck of an ancient Egyptian ship that sank after being struck with giant blocks from the famous temple of Amun. The so-called galley, along with a burial ground, were discovered beneath the Mediterranean Sea in Thonis-Heracleion, a city that fell into the water long ago. The ship is called a fast galley, a type of vessel with a large sail that would have been propelled to relatively high speeds by a team of oarsmen. The recently discovered fast galley is 82 feet (25 meters) long with a flat keel, a feature that is commonly found among ancient vessels that navigated the Nile River . It "sank after being hit by huge blocks from the famed temple of Amun, which was totally destroyed [during] a cataclysmic event in the second century B.C.," a team of archaeologists said in an emailed statement released by the European Institute for Underwater Arch...

Found A Spiral Mass Grave in Mexico City

Evidence of an elaborate ritual 2,400 years ago. RELIGIOUS SACRIFICE AND ELABORATE FUNERAL RITES played important roles in a number of ancient Mesoamerican civilizations, including the Maya and the Aztecs. So it is with seeming regularity that archaeologists excavating under Mexico City unearth bones in unusual arrangements and dispositions, from an Aztec temple containing 32 sets of neck bones to elaborate racks of mounted skulls. It takes a lot to surprise archaeologists with the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), but a recent find accomplished the feat. Beneath the Pontifical University of Mexico in the Tlalpan area of the city, they uncovered 10 human skeletons were arranged in spiral shape, that appear to have been buried with interlocking arms. As explained in a statement, this 2,400-year-old grave is the most “peculiar” find at the site, which has been excavated since 2006. It is also the largest number of skeletons found in a single burial from the Preclassi...

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