The 300 year old mummified remains of a young girl who was a shaman for the Sakha people in the Yakuts region of Siberia. She was found in a very prominent burial mound that none of the local villagers could remember why was so important. It was simply a highly venerated spot for the people, and it took a lot of goodwill to be allowed to excavate. After her examination, it was concluded that she died from tuberculosis, most likely from Russian traders who made their way east.

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The golden helmet of Meskalamdug, an early Ensi (ruler) or Ur. It was discovered in the tomb of the aformentioned ruler in 1924.

In Japan, the Sokushinbutsu would prepare a regimen over 1000 days. It consisted of eating seeds and nuts and wood bark while they exercised rigorously to remove fat from their bodies. Towards the end, they would start to drinl a poisonous solution that was to render the body inedible by maggots. When the time arrived to finish the act, they would sit in an stone tomb only big enough for them to s...it in the lotus position....

Located in southeastern Iran, near the Helmand river, the city of Shahr-e Sūkhté (Burnt City) dates back to 5200 bce.



Some notable aspects of this city revolve around the position of women, many of whom are buried in the 40,000 graves along with special, etched pebbles.

These...

From Plutarch, we are told of the Lykourgan reform concerning the equal redistribution of kleroi (lots of land), between the citizens. The issue is, there is no reference to this before the fifth century and neither Herodotus, in his account of the reforms, or Xenophon, in his Polity of the Lakedaimonians, make any reference to it.

We do however, have a brief mention of a land division, by Plato and Isokrates, that took place at the conclusion of the 'Dorian Conquests'. It is the...