AncientPages.com – Human beings have a conflicted relationship with the sun. People love sunshine, but then get hot. Sweat gets in your eyes. Then there are all the protective rituals: the sunscreen, the hats, the sunglasses. If you stay out
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Excavations in Saqqara, Giza in Egypt continue to be successful. This time the science team unearthed the sarcophagus of King Ramses II’s head of treasury, who was responsible for the offerings to all gods of
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – One of the largest volcanic eruptions in the Holocene epoch—as measured by the volume of material ejected—occurred on the Greek island of Santorini, traditionally known as Thera. It is considered a pivotal event in the
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists have once again found people have used evidence opium for thousands of years. While examining several Late Bronze Age graves in the central Israeli town of Yehud, archaeologists found 3,500-year-old pottery containing opium residue. According
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Many ancient cartographers created detailed maps used for navigation and depicting certain areas of the Earth. Some of these are rare and fairly unknown to the public. The new Beinecke exhibition has given people a unique
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists from UP Diliman (UPD) and the National Museum, and leaders and members of the indigenous Pala’wan community unearthed new discoveries dating back to the last glacial maximum (LGM) or at the height of the
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A man-made square burial cave dated to the time of ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Rameses II and associated with the Biblical Exodus from Egypt was accidentally discovered during a mechanical digger working at the Palmahim Beach
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Several ancient myths, legends, and sacred texts worldwide tell of a lost world that was wiped out in the distant past. The destruction of the long-gone world inhabited by highly advanced civilizations was caused by
AncientPages.com – Dragons have inspired awe and wonder since the beginning of human imagination. Most recently, these fire-spitting flying creatures – in modern western culture at least – have come alive in Game of Thrones and its new spin off,
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – While excavating at fort St. Joseph in Michigan, an archaeology student unearthed a beautiful, unique heart-shaped Jesuit ring. The intact ring has been dated to the 1700s and is “believed to have been a trade
AncientPages.com – A woman in Suzhou, China, was reportedly detained recently for “provoking trouble.” Her alleged crime was being spotted outside wearing a kimono. The woman was dressed like a character from a manga (a Japanese comic). Arresting her might
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Tiny glass beads discovered in mountain caves about 25 miles from the shores of Lake Malawi in eastern-central Africa provide evidence that European trade in the continent’s hinterland was built on Indigenous trade routes from
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – New excavations have coaxed more secrets from Gribshunden, the flagship of the Danish-Norwegian King Hans which mysteriously sank in 1495 off the coast of Ronneby, Sweden. The wreck is internationally significant as the world’s best-preserved
Conny Waters -– AncientPages.com – Queen Nefertiti was the most powerful woman of her time and one of ancient Egypt’s most mysterious historical people. There is still much we don’t know about her and her sudden disappearance after being elevated
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Mexican officials has just announced the discovery of an ancient archaeological Maya site along the route of the Maya Train railroad in Quintana Roo, the home of the city of Cancún, in a Mexican state
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Researchers have discovered a 380-million-year-old heart—the oldest ever found—alongside a separate fossilized stomach, intestine and liver in an ancient jawed fish, shedding new light on the evolution of our own bodies. The new research, published
