Archaeologists have estimated the ancient structure - which ... In addition to the green mask, the team also discovered shards of clay pottery, animal bones and three serpentine human figurines.

Masks portraying humans and animals – the oldest is from the Stone Age and dates to about 6,500 BCE – are among the offerings. Many masks were used for ritual purposes such as rainmaking ...

The mask was uncovered as researches ploughed through a tunnel built by archaeologists in the 1930s. They also unearthed shards of clay pottery, animal bones and three serpentine human figurines.

Left to right: Ritual wine pouring vessel (gong) with masks (taotie), dragons, and real animals, Anyang or middle Yangzi region, ca. 1100 B.C., bronze, Gift of Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer, F1961.33a–b; ...

Whether it was to appease a deity or honor the dead, ritual animal sacrifice was widespread in the ancient world. But there is a region where it appears that hardly any of these rituals occurred ...

And few of those evolutionary enigmas are as perplexing as Typhloesus, an ancient sea animal so strange that ... including donning masks and vintage fur coats. A New Threat to North American ...