Meet the Amesbury Archer and help raise the Sarsen Stone at virtual Stonehenge 2300BC. Discover the history of Stonehenge in our 3D, online experience.
Discover the history of Stonehenge in our 3D, online experience. Meet the famous Amesbury Archer, help move and raise the Sarsen Stone and attend an ancient burial ritual. Test your druid skills, decipher the secret of the stones and celebrate at the Solstice festival.
The greatest discovery of all times was King Tut's tomb (KV62) in the Valley of the Kings. In this 3D online virtual area, you can experience that yourself. Dig up artefacts and gather points and marvel at - as well as decode - the wall paintings in the tomb to get a glimpse at the afterlife that was so important to the Ancient Egyptians.
Zoom in on King Tut's greatest treasures and explore the Valley of the Kings at the time when Carter made the world's greatest archaeological discovery ever: the Tomb of Tutankhamun. Experience life by the Nile in Ancient Egypt, gather clues to have a look at what the Egyptians envisioned the afterlife to be and dig up your own artefacts. All this is possible in King Tut Virtual.
The Pyramid of Behenu belonged to Queen Behenu, who was thought to be the wife of either Pepi I or Pepi II. These kings ruled over Egypt during the 6th dynasty reigning from 2232-2283 BC and 2278–2184 BC respectively. The Pyramid of Behenu which is 25 metres in length and hold fragments of engraved hieroglyphic texts.
The pyramid was discovered by French archaeologists under the direction of doctor Philippe Collombert, who were working within the necropolis of Pepi I at Saqqara which is a vast, ancient burial ground in Egypt, serving as the necropolis for the Ancient Egyptian capital of Memphis.
Saqqara is situated 30 km from modern-day Cairo in Egypt and is a well known place for the famous Step Pyramid of king Djoser. It is a huge burial ground which served as the Necropolis for the ancient Egyptian capital of Memphis. The area has served as the necropolis for almost 3,000 years and has proved to be the birth place of new architecture of pyramid styles.
This necroplis holds the Pyramid of Pepi I, who ruled over Egypt during the 6th dynasty reigning from 2332 – 2283 BC. The pyramid lies towards the south of Saqqara and is almost completely destroyed due to stone raids throughout the centuries. The pyramid contains around 2500 stone blocks which hold hieroglyphic texts.
The ancient Latin city of Gabii was a city-state that was both a neighbour of, and a rival to, Rome in the first millennium BC. Gabii is located in the region of Italy once known as Latium. The site of Gabii was occupied since at least the 10th century BC until its decline in the second and third centuries AD. Major excavations have been carried out on the cemetery of Osteria dell'Osa in Gabii. These tombs have been divided into 14 groups, with each group exhibiting a set of distinctive traditions and each believed to represent a different community which has settled in the area.
In 2008 an Anglo-Saxon cemetery was discovered which dates the Covent Garden district to atleast 100 years older than previously thought. From analyzing the skeletons and artefacts discovered in the ancient cemetery archaeologists now think that the formerly Anglo Saxon city of Lundenwic dates back to 550 AD or earlier. The graves are thought to be the burial places of middle to high class wealthy inhabitants of the ancient settlement, as the grave stones and objects which were left as offerings to the deceased were mostly valuable. The bodies found are thought to all belong to Anglo Saxons, descendants of three Germanic tribes who settled in south and east Britain during the 5th century AD.
In 2004 this rich tomb of a Dark Age Anglo-Saxon king was discovered in Essex. The tomb that was unearthed intact is of an early 7th century Saxon monarch, and it is almost certainly the burial place of either Saeberht or Sigeberht, both kings of Dark Age Essex. The grave is decorated and designed to enable the king to live on in the next world, contaning many fine and expensive goods from his sword and shield to copper bowls, glass vessels and treasures that were imported. Due to soils acidic nature the king's skeleton has not survived. The royal tomb is one of the most important archaeological discoveries in Britain, dating from the same period as the great Sutton Hoo ship burial, found in Suffolk in 1939.
Deir Mar Musa al-Habashi (the monastery of Saint Moses the Abyssinian) is a Christian monastery in Syria. Its earliest date of use appears to be in 6th century AD, when it was used by cave dwelling hermit monks as a place to gather and pray. It reached its peak between the 11th and 12th centuries AD and several beautiful frescos have been recovered from that era.
Last summer Dr. Robert Mason, an archaeologist with the Royal Ontario Museum, made a far more ancient discovery. To the east of the site he found an ancient landscape with stone circles, alignments and what appear to be corbelled rock tombs.
From the stone tools found it appears to date to some point in the Middle East Neolithic period (8500-4300 BC). This means that this landscape could well be older then the megalithic sites found in Europe.
