A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – ‘Lamashtu Plaque’ (or ‘Hell Plaque’) was an Assyrian healing device against the female demon Lamashtu and her evil doings. Protection plaque against Lamashtu (fragment). Dimensions: 6.40 cm high, 8.40 cm wide, 1.20 cm deep. Photo
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A comprehensive analysis of an archaeological site in Saudi Arabia sheds new light on mustatils—stone monuments from the Late Neolithic period thought to have been used for ritual purposes. Built about 7,000 years ago, mustatils
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The desert in southern Egypt is filled with hundreds of petroglyphs and inscriptions dating from the Neolithic to the Arab period. The oldest date is from the fifth millennium B.C. and few have been studied.
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The Atapuerca Research Team (EIA) participated in a paper led by the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH) that presents a taphonomic analysis of the bone alterations in the skeletons of more
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A new study has found evidence of cheesemaking, using milk from multiple animals, in Late Neolithic Poland. The research suggests that early farmers reduced the lactose content in milk by making it into cheese or
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Peru’s first great empire, the Wari, stretched for more than a thousand miles over the Andes Mountains and along the coast from 600 to 1000 CE. The pottery they left behind gives archaeologists clues as
AncientPages.com – In 1853, a Roman vase was found being used as a container for ashes in a grave outside Roman Colchester. Dating to the later second century AD, it depicted four gladiators with their names scratched into the surface of the
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists excavating at a small site near Buckingham report an intriguing find. According to researchers, this is the former site of a watermill with potential late Anglo-Saxon origins, which continued to operate until the early
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – When archaeologists found a curious object at Bar Hill near Cambridge, UK, they understood it was an unusual ancient artifact, but exactly was it? Examinations revealed that the strange object was a comb dating back
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists have been researching an area under the North Sea known as Doggerland, which was home to one of the largest prehistoric settlements in Europe. But with the expansion of wind farms in the North
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – A remarkable collection of religious items from diverse lands was unearthed during archaeological excavations on the Swedish island of Helgö in 1954. Located in Lake Mälaren (Malaren), west of Stockholm, the island was an important
AncientPages.com – When the eminent Australian anthropologist W. E. H. Stanner first published his essay on “The Dreaming” in 1956, there was increasing scholarly and popular interest in the complexity and duration of Australia’s Indigenous cultures. That same year, an excavation by
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Lancaster University staff and student researchers have discovered evidence of a Romano-Celtic temple under public land near Lancaster Castle – only the second of its type found in northern Britain. What started as a team-building
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The ancient temple complex Medinet Habu has survived in the arid desert climate for thousands of years. But in the 100 years since the Oriental Institute’s (OI) Epigraphic Survey first arrived in nearby Luxor, Egypt,
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – Zhang Heng (A.D. 78 – 139) was one of the world’s first scientists to propose that the universe is infinite in space and time. He was also convinced that the number of dimensions we cannot
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – With 800 grams of real gold, the Vindelev treasure is one of the largest treasures unearthed recently. Found by two old friends and amateur archaeologists in a field in Jelling, Denmark, in 2020, the ancient
