In this 1923 file photo provided by the Guadalupe Dunes Center, whip-wielding overseers drive Hebrew slaves – or hundreds of costumed actors and extras in these roles – before a 10-story wood-and-plaster Egyptian city set, constructed for production of Cecil B. DeMille’s “The Ten Commandments,” near the town of Guadalupe on the wind-swept Central Coast of California. Archaeologists, film buffs and historians are trying to save what remains of the […]

Archaeologists in South America have discovered the first undisturbed tomb of the ancient and mysterious Wari civilisation, unearthing the mummified bodies of three Queens alongside golden treasures and macabre human sacrifices. The 1,200-year-old ‘temple of the dead’ was found at the El Castillo de Huarmey site, a four-hour drive north of the Pruvian capital Lima. It provides a wealth of information about the enigmatic Wari empire that ruled the Andes […]