Tag: archeologists
Ancient altar and decorated ossuary discovered at Odirmon archaeological site
Archaeologists excavating the ancient settlement of Odirmon have uncovered a remarkably preserved ritual altar and a decorated ossuary, offering new evidence of the religious and funerary practices of communities that lived in the region more than 2,000 years ago.
Captured German Panther tank found buried beneath Russian University
Construction workers have uncovered a German Panzerkampfwagen V Panther tank buried beneath the courtyard of a university building in Kazan.
The death jar: giant stone vessel reveals lost burial tradition in Laos
For more than a century, the giant stone jars scattered across northern Laos have been one of Southeast Asia’s oldest archaeological mysteries. And spread out over remote hillsides and forests on the Plain of Jars, they have generated hundreds of theories about how they functioned: storage containers, religious monuments, or a forgotten funerary tradition?