Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – This important discovery sheds much light on cacao cultivation, religion, power in the region. For as much as modern society worships chocolate, cacao — the plant chocolate comes from — was believed to be even
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – As we continue our quest to find ancient, lost civilizations, we stumble upon intriguing very old texts that mention highly unusual beings who once walked the Earth. The greatest problem with the mentioned lost civilizations
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – New insight into how our early ancestors dealt with major shifts in climate is revealed in recent research. It reveals new radiocarbon dates show the large Early Holocene cemetery of Yuzhniy Oleniy Ostrov, at Lake
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – The legendary lost continent of Atlantis appears in ancient myths and legends worldwide. Ancient people were familiar with a marvelous land that vanished a very long time ago. Researchers have debated the existence of Atlantis
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – One of the most interesting events in the history of Scotland is the Jacobite Rebellion. Also known as the Forty-five Rebellion, this was an attempt by the House of Stuart to re-establish itself on the
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Horses have been intrinsically entwined with human history for the past five millennia, acting as an early means of rapid transport and playing a key part in agriculture, warfare and sport. Despite this, major decades-long
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A team of scientists examined the remains of a previously submerged fisher-hunter-gatherer camp on the shores of the Sea of Galilee from around 23,000 years ago and discovered something interesting. Through a close analysis of
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – As previously discussed in part 1, scientists were baffled to find artifacts and skeletons in this never-before explored subterranean realm, but this was just the beginning of a much more complicated and longer story. Not
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – Among many tales that survived from the era of northern Pakistan, which was the sacred Buddhist heartland of Gandhara, there was one dedicated to a terrifying water-dwelling Dragon/Naga, Apalala. According to Buddhist mythology, this water
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Quintessential human traits such as large brains first appear in Homo erectus nearly 2 million years ago. This evolutionary transition towards human-like traits is often linked to a major dietary shift involving greater meat consumption. A new study
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The Mycenaean culture in Bronze Age Greece is not only famous for works of art such as the “Gold Mask of Agamemnon”, but also for the beginning of export-oriented mass production of elaborately made ceramic
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – It does not happen often, but scientists stumble upon something that is almost stranger than fiction every now and then. Many years ago, researchers excavating in Brazil discovered mysterious, ancient underground ruins. When they entered
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – King Amenhotep III, also known as Amenhotep the Great, was the ninth pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty. During his reign, Egypt successfully managed to keep peaceful relationships with other nations and forge vital alliances. King Amenhotep
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A team of archaeologists excavating in Aswan, Egypt has unearthed 20 mummies in ancient burial chambers. According to Ahram Online, “The first part is a rectangular building containing the entrance built above ground from sandstone
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Why the mysterious Stone of Brutus was brought to London, UK, remains unknown. Several theories attempt to explain the Stone’s enigmatic past, but even today, this mysterious Stone refuses to yield its secrets. It is
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – In Japan there are several interesting megalithic tombs that have long interested scientists. Known as Kofun (“ancient grave”), the structures were “constructed between the early 3rd century and the early 7th century AD. The kofun
