ancient ruins

Mummification may have been a wide-spread funerary practice among ancient Britons during the Bronze Age, a new study suggests.

Nan Madol is the only ancient city ever built upon a coral reef. Yet despite the enormity of the undertaking in building the city, no records exist as to when exactly it was built, where the enormous rocks came from, how they were transported there, and for what reason it was constructed on top of a reef.

Mummification may have been a wide-spread funerary practice among ancient Britons during the Bronze Age, a new study suggests.

Nan Madol is the only ancient city ever built upon a coral reef. Yet despite the enormity of the undertaking in building the city, no records exist as to when exactly it was built, where the enormous rocks came from, how they were transported there, and for what reason it was constructed on top of a reef.