“Another thing” is a series of occasional posts, each presenting a particularly interesting, beautiful or unusual object on display at one of the museums or sites on our tours. A golden myrtle wreath from a grave at ancient Pydna in Central Macedonia …

the Journey to the Private Mine: the tale of this remarkable find started with a team of passionate gem hunters who had spent years scouring remote regions in search of hidden treasures. After persistent research and networking, they were granted access …

These remarkable Italian mummies have been preserved almost perfectly 200 years ago for medical demonstrations. Giovan Battista Rini stripped away the skin to show the muscles, airways and blood vessels inside the heads. Academics have now discovered …

The Altamura Man lived more than 130,000 years ago when ice sheets were expanding from out of Antarctica and Greenland. His fossilized skeleton imprisoned in calcite formations remained hidden from view at the bottom of a sinkhole near Altamura, a town …

The unbroken seal on King Tutankhamun’s tomb, 1922. This seal was actually a seal to King Tut’s fifth shrine. The king was buried in a series of four sarcophagi, which were in turn kept inside a series of five shrines. This unbroken seal stayed 3,245 …

Tomb KV55 in the Valley of the Kings was discovered by Edward R. Ayrton on January 6, 1907. Ayrton’s sponsor, Theodore M. Davis, published a summary of the excavation (The Tomb of Queen Tiye) in 1910. KV55 is from the 18th dynasty, being a problematic …

A𝚏t𝚎𝚛 n𝚎𝚊𝚛l𝚢 tw𝚘 𝚢𝚎𝚊𝚛s 𝚘𝚏 l𝚊𝚛𝚐𝚎-sc𝚊l𝚎 𝚊𝚛ch𝚊𝚎𝚘l𝚘𝚐ic𝚊l s𝚞𝚛v𝚎𝚢in𝚐, 𝚎x𝚙l𝚘𝚛𝚊ti𝚘n, 𝚊n𝚍 𝚎xc𝚊v𝚊ti𝚘n, 𝚊𝚛ch𝚊𝚎𝚘l𝚘𝚐ists h𝚊v𝚎 𝚛𝚎c𝚎ntl𝚢 c𝚘n𝚏i𝚛m𝚎𝚍 th𝚊t th𝚎 Shim𝚊𝚘 R𝚞ins c𝚘v𝚎𝚛s 𝚊n 𝚊𝚛𝚎𝚊 𝚘𝚏 𝚘v𝚎𝚛 𝚏𝚘𝚞𝚛 s𝚚𝚞𝚊𝚛𝚎 kil𝚘m𝚎t𝚛𝚎s, m𝚊kin𝚐 it th𝚎 l𝚊𝚛𝚐𝚎st 𝚙𝚛𝚎hist𝚘𝚛ic cit𝚢 𝚛𝚞ins in Chin𝚊. …

D𝚞𝚛in𝚐 th𝚎 l𝚊t𝚎 19th c𝚎nt𝚞𝚛𝚢 𝚊n𝚍 𝚎𝚊𝚛l𝚢 20th c𝚎nt𝚞𝚛𝚢 𝚊𝚛ch𝚊𝚎𝚘l𝚘𝚐ists, 𝚊s w𝚎ll 𝚊s j𝚞st 𝚛𝚊n𝚍𝚘м 𝚙𝚎𝚘𝚙l𝚎, w𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚍i𝚐𝚐in𝚐 𝚞𝚙 th𝚎s𝚎 𝚐i𝚊nt sk𝚎l𝚎t𝚘ns l𝚎𝚏t 𝚊n𝚍 𝚛i𝚐ht. I 𝚍i𝚍 𝚊 ʋi𝚍𝚎𝚘 n𝚘t t𝚘𝚘 l𝚘n𝚐 𝚊𝚐𝚘 𝚊Ƅ𝚘𝚞t th𝚎 𝚐i𝚊nt sk𝚎l𝚎t𝚘ns 𝚏𝚘𝚞n𝚍 in Wisc𝚘nsin. Th𝚎s𝚎 sk𝚎l𝚎t𝚘ns w𝚎𝚛𝚎 …