The Mysterious Engravings of Ireland’s 5,000-Year-Old Megalithic Tomb

For thousands of years they have stood, high on the windswept hills, with views of a gentle green landscape rolling away on all sides. Before the first pyramids were even built in Egypt, this wild and rugged land was home to Neolithic people who carved strange patterns into the stones. And yet it is the [...]

Huge Peru Tomb Found—80 Bodies, Ring of Babies

Arranged in the fetal position, this skeleton is among some 80 bodies discovered this spring in a vast Peruvian tomb—the largest yet found at the ancient site of Pachacamac. Buried a thousand years ago with wooden “false heads,” the now decayed mummies were unearthed within a perimeter of infant human remains. Once covered by a [...]

Catholic Priest: Missing girl ’buried in murdered mobster’s tomb was kidnapped for Vatican sex parties’

The Catholic Church’s leading exorcist priest has sensationally claimed a missing schoolgirl thought to be buried in a murdered gangster’s tomb was kidnapped for Vatican sex parties. Last week police and forensic experts broke into a grave after an anonymous phone call said the truth about missing teenager Emanuela’s 1983 disappearance would be ’found there’. [...]

Italian Police Open a Mobster’s Vatican-Owned Tomb in Search of a Missing Girl

Searching for the remains of a teenager missing for three decades, Italian police opened the Vatican-owned tomb of mobster Enrico De Pedis, but the boxes of bones they found interred with his corpse only deepen the mystery. The smell of death wafted through the 7th-century courtyard of Vatican-owned Sant’Apollinare church in central Rome as bricklayers [...]

Ecuador ’locates final resting place of last Inca emperor’s tomb’

It has been sought for centuries but remained a mystery, still out of reach. Now an expert has pinpointed a site that could be Atahualpa’s resting place: the last Inca emperor’s tomb. “This is an absolutely important find for the history of Ecuador’s archeology and for the (Andean) region,” said Patrimony Minister Maria Fernanda Espinosa, [...]