But it was, the knight claimed, an ancient burial shroud imprinted with the likeness ... including Smyrna, an ancient Greek city in present-day Türkiye. That said, de Charny died in 1356 before ...

who claimed that it was the burial shroud of Jesus Christ. Though the knight left no record about where he’d found the cloth, his military career had likely taken him to many places, including Smyrna, ...

Mount Hekla in Iceland, known as 'the chimney of hell' by medieval Christians, has been considered a gateway to the ...

“In the ancient world (whether Greek, Roman or Jewish), the worst punishment a person could experience after death was to be denied a decent burial ... that perpetually shroud its summit.

Have you ever wondered what secrets are hidden beneath the dirt or tucked away in rooms where few have gone … Continue ...

Just why the Romans did this, though, remains a mystery. The experts that made the discovery found that the natural ...

the fragments still offered impressions of the burial shroud and even preserved a small piece of the fabric the individual was buried in. There were no grave goods found in the coffin, but the ...

An ancient culture that lived on the coast of ... The graves were excavated in 2022, but one of them was unlike the others. The burial of a young woman, possibly as young as 17, was identified ...

historians and prehistory specialists affiliated with a host of institutions across Spain has confirmed the existence of the largest single-burial assemblage of beads ever found, at an ancient ...