AncientPages.com Archive
Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Scientists' knowledge of the Parthian Empire has increased with the latest discovery at Al-Suwaira, about 60 km south of Baghdad. An archaeology team
Read More
Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - While excavating at the mysterious, ancient burial mound Laona in Cyprus, archaeologists discovered something quite extraordinary. The researchers say there is a mega-monument
Read More
Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The discovery of King Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922 was an archaeological sensation. When British archaeologist Howard Carter found King Tut's tomb in Luxor's
Read More
Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - When archaeologists excavated the necropolis of Saint-Pierre-l'Estrier, France, they unearthed more than 230 graves. Inside these tombs, Inrap archaeologists found many exceptional objects.
Read More
Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have unearthed an extraordinary treasure trove consisting of Etruscan and Roman artifacts in the village of San Casciano dei Bagni, Tuscany, Italy.
Read More
Human Beginnings
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – New Curtin research has provided the strongest evidence yet that Earth's continents were formed by giant meteorite impacts that were particularly prevalent
Read More
Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com -A unique discovery was made by archaeologists while excavating the ruins of a medieval wooden house in the town of Nový Jičín in the
Read More
Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Last month, scientists announced human footprints believed to date from the end of the last Ice Age had been discovered on the salt
Read More
Featured Stories
AncientPages.com - Every year I ask the college students in the course I teach about the 14th-century Black Death to imagine they are farmers or nuns or nobles in the
Read More
Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - While carrying out recent restoration works on the statues of Memnon and the "Temple of Millions of Years" on the western mainland in
Read More
Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An international collaboration of scientists has created and observed an entirely new class of vortices—the whirling masses of fluid or air. Led by
Read More
Ancient Technology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Researchers have identified the ingredients in chemistry formulas from a 2,300-year-old Chinese text, revealing ancient metallurgy was more complex than expected. The Kaogong
Read More
Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Based on previous archaeological studies, researchers know that the Old Kingdom of Egypt and the Akkadian Empire, both Bronze Age civilizations, experienced sudden
Read More
Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An ancient burial place of a noble Mongol warrior has been unearthed in the vicinity of the village of Glinoe, Slobodzeya region, the
Read More
Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - After having received an anonymous tip, INAH scientists have been able to recover two precious and huge Olmec reliefs in Tenosique, a municipality
Read More
Vikings
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - In the year 865 A.D., the Great Heathen Army, also known as the Great Viking Army, crossed the sea and dramatically changed the
Read More
Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An extraordinary discovery is reported from the area of Mány, a town in Hungary located in the northeast of Fejér County, Hungary. Image credit:
Read More
Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The oldest known seeds from a watermelon relative, dating back 6,000 years to the Neolithic period, were found during an archaeological dig in
Read More
Human Beginnings
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Did the 12th century B.C.E.—a time when humans were forging great empires and developing new forms of written text—coincide with an evolutionary reduction
Read More
Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A priceless 800-year-old pendant dating back to the 12th century was discovered on a site that was once an Iron Age or Romano
Read More
Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A very unique 1,700-year-old amphora was unearthed by archaeologists conducting excavations at the Diyarbakir Fortress site, located in the historic Sur district in
Read More
Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Khirbet Tibnah in the West Bank is a site of special interest to archaeologists, historians, and Biblical scholars. This region was populated from
Read More
Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Locals in the village of Gudsathoo Budgam, Kashmir accidentally found a sculpture of the god Vishnu while digging the land. The idol of
Read More
Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Beer has been a popular beverage for thousands of years and will undoubtedly continue to be enjoyed in the future. Ecuadoran bioengineer Javier
Read More
Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Researchers from Western University have verified the authenticity of a South American tsantsa (shrunken head) as human remains, an important step in the
Read More
Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A joint Polish- Italian archaeological mission excavating at the temple of King Nyuserre in the Abu Gorab necropolis north of Abusir made an important
Read More
Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A long-standing Canadian mystery may have finally been solved. A combination of archaeological and geological studies shed new light on when the first
Read More
Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - This beautiful find was recovered and identified by Israel Antiquities Authority numismatics expert Lior Sandberg during a maritime survey. Image credit: Israel Antiquities
Read More
Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A comprehensive scientific study combining high-quality aerial photography, a topographic survey, laser scanning, and geophysical survey have resulted in the discovery of an
Read More