Fantastical animal imagery on the forearms of a 2,300-year-old mummified woman is revealing new information about the art of tattooing in ancient Siberia.

Thanks to cutting-edge photography, archaeologists have discovered that a virtuoso artist used a previously unknown tattoo tool to "hand-poke" the designs in multiple stages.

The new findings are detailed in a study published Thursday (July 31) in the journal Antiquity.

Lima (AFP) – A crew of workers accidentally discovered a mummy more than 1,000 years old while installing gas pipes in Peru's capital Lima, their employer and archaeologists said Thursday.

The mummy was found last week in a tomb underneath a street north of Lima, said archaeologist Jesus Bahamonde.

The mummy was covered in a shroud in a seated position, arms and legs bent.

Pottery was also found in the tomb which was dated to the pre-Inca Chancay civilization that lived around the Lima region between the 11th and 15th centuries.

It was believed to be part of a large, ancient cemetery.

Lima, a city with over 10 million inhabitants, also houses more than 500 archaeological sites.

Gas company Calidda has reported more than 2,200 chance archaeological discoveries since 2004.

I know that this got linked to yesterday, but these are only a few minutes from my house, so I went during lunch today and took pictures:

The spot where these are at is right at the modern tide line, but I would have expected it to be much lower in the past (the tide line). Its also a pretty different material type the petroglyphs are in. Most of our beach rock is either basalt or coral. But in this particular spot its a combination of some sandstone and some conglomerate. There is also some very weird erosion right off shore, that isn't like any other coastal erosion (more channelized, more smooth than basalt or fossil corral). Its a pretty unique spot considering the entire coast, because sandstone of any kind is actually pretty rare here.

Pokai bay is basically the main mouth of the Waiʻanae valley, and unlike many of our beaches where it has coarse, coral sand, this is smooth rock sand. There is an Hawaiian old fish pond near by and a heiau at the bay.

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These carvings are visible during low tide, as waves gently roll over rocks covered in algae. Experts date them to be at least 500 to 600 years old, although some of the oral traditions state that Native Hawaiians have been in the area for more than 1,000 years. Carved into a sandstone platform, the petroglyphs extend about 115 feet along the shoreline and include abstract shapes and anthropomorphic human figures, some of which are detailed—two of the large figures even have fingers, a rarity in Hawaiian petroglyphs. The tallest figure is more than eight feet tall.

This reemergence is connected to patterns of seasonal weather. From May to November, Pacific storms churn the waters, scouring sand from beaches and occasionally bringing archaeological features that were obscured by sediment into view. Over time, the sand will eventually return, burying the carvings until they reappear during a shift in coastal dynamics once again.

Specialists monitor the petroglyph site, which lies within the grounds of a U.S. Army recreation area. The shoreline itself is open to the public, but complete access to the adjacent property requires military identification. This has created ongoing controversy about how to preserve this part of Hawaii’s cultural heritage and make it more widely available.

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Historical accounts between 1632 and 1760 show a chilling reality: 734 Indigenous children were enslaved in France’s North American colony. These children, torn from their families and transported far away, were subjected to a system in which they were considered to be commodities to be purchased, sold, and utilized as labor. Quebec historian Dominique Deslandres illuminates this largely forgotten page in Canadian history in two recent studies.

While slavery among Indigenous peoples existed before contact with the Europeans, the French, and then the British, introduced a more rigid, permanent form based on Roman law: a child born of a slave mother was automatically a slave himself. This was different from Indigenous culture, where slavery was not passed down from parent to child and could often be temporary or symbolic.

Deslandres, a professor at the Université de Montréal, notes that Montreal (then Ville-Marie)’s slavery history has long been an overlooked subject. Her recent articles reveal not only the scale of slavery in the colony but also its ruinous effect—especially on children.

These children, then well known by the French colonial terms panis or panisse, were deprived of their identity. They had only first names, or acquired the owner’s surname—a dehumanizing practice that deprived them of their roots and contributed to what Deslandres mentions as a “social death.”

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A monumental discovery has emerged from the windswept plains of Ceyranchol in western Azerbaijan: a 3,800-year-old Middle Bronze Age kurgan, believed to be the burial site of a towering warrior, has been unearthed during the “Scientific-Archaeological Excavations and Summer School-5 at Keshikchidagh” project.

This groundbreaking excavation is part of a long-standing joint initiative between the Cultural Heritage Protection, Development and Restoration Service under the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology of ANAS (Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences).