WorldPingOver 500 years before the building of the Great Pyramid in Egypt, First Dynasty kings were buried in a tomb surrounded by many burials of household officials and artisans—many of which seem to have taken place at the same time, a suspiciously high nu…
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Inka scattered sacred coca leaves over sacrificed llamas, excavation suggests
Modern forensics reveals human sacrifice in ancient Egypt's royal burials
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WorldPingStudy of remains taken from royal cemetery at Umm el-Qa’ab appears to confirm early Egyptologist’s theory Court officials and craftspeople serving early Egyptian kings may have been sacrificed when their ruler died, according to research that found f…
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WorldPingRoyal tombs at Abydos were surrounded by numerous other burials. In the 1920s, an Egyptologist questioned whether all those people could have died naturally at the same time.
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WorldPingDeep in Peru's Acarí Valley lie the ruins of Tambo Viejo, an Inka provincial center where excavations have uncovered tasseled sacrificial llamas and brightly adorned guinea pigs.
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WorldPingFresh analysis of First Dynasty mass burials finds signs of fatal blunt force trauma on 39 percent of skulls…
Brief by WorldPing · Original reporting by Ars Technica
WorldPingFormer Grey’s Anatomy star Isaiah Washington revealed via social media this weekend that Jenise Maria Garland, his wife of 29 years, died in June of 2025. Washington said his wife collapsed “suddenly” on May 31, 2025 and died on June 9.
Brief by WorldPing · Original reporting by Deadline
WorldPingGraphics chips could draw but not compute, until the Xbox arrived.
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