Arianna Winslow

2 weeks ago | thetravel.com | Arianna Winslow

2025 is a great year for Egyptian archaeology. Just a few weeks ago, in February, a massive discovery was announced: that the tomb of Thutmose II (the half-brother and husband of Egypt's famous pharaoh, Hatshepsut) had been discovered. This was one of the biggest discoveries in Egypt in over 100 years. This wasn't the only tomb that made headlines, however. Just this month, another tomb was found that illuminates a not-well-known period of Egypt's history.

2 weeks ago | thetravel.com | Arianna Winslow

Link copied to clipboard Sign in to your TheTravel account Metropolitan Museum of Art / Public Domain In 2024, the world was enamored by a story of a dog climbing to the top of Egypt's Great Pyramid of Giza. Since then, discussions about dogs' role in Ancient Egypt have been ongoing. Dogs and humans have shared an incredible relationship that spanned tens of thousands of years. Potentially being domesticated as early as 30,000 years ago, dogs played an important role in the foundation of the...

2 weeks ago | thetravel.com | Arianna Winslow

Link copied to clipboard Sign in to your TheTravel account When studying the Earth's history, one of the most rewarding things to learn about is the incredible extinct creatures that once dominated our lands. In the Americas, animals like megacerops, terror birds, mammoths, steppe bison, and ground sloths once thrived anywhere from millions to thousands of years ago. Today, most of these creatures are only known through their bones. That means that whenever a new discovery happens,...

3 weeks ago | thetravel.com | Arianna Winslow

Link copied to clipboard Sign in to your TheTravel account Sunk beneath the gentle waves of the Bay of Naples lies a long-forgotten ancient Roman city: Baiae. Once the vacation home of some of Rome's most famous people, Baiae now sits at the bottom of the ocean, like an Ancient Roman "Atlantis". In its heyday, though, the city wasn't the sleepy coral haven it is today. In the 1st century BCE, the town was a place for revelry and debauchery. Dubbed the "Las Vegas of the Roman Empire", Baiae...

3 weeks ago | thetravel.com | Arianna Winslow

Link copied to clipboard Sign in to your TheTravel account In 2023, a viral TikTok question brought an ancient empire back to the forefront of our culture's consciousness. The question: "How often do you think about the Roman Empire?" The results were unexpected—it turns out that a lot of people think about the eternal city of Rome and the vast empire on a daily basis. While this trend's popularity spread quickly on social media, it had other impacts as well; it launched a 1,900-year-old...