Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Who was the first explorer to visit the Arctic? That is a question one cannot answer quickly. The lack of historical references dealing with early Arctic exploration and difficulties interpreting early maps and accounts of
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – It’s incredible how something so huge could go unnoticed for so long, but one can only be thankful these stunning drawings have finally been discovered. According to researchers, these mysterious geoglyphs hidden in India’s vast
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – New research has questioned theories that a mysterious group of hunter-gatherers from Indonesia interacted with Aboriginal Australians thousands of years ago and provides a basis for future understanding of the people who made tiny, but precise implements out of stone. Credit: Griffith University The study, published in PLOS
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Since its discovery in the 1960s, the Jebel Sahaba cemetery (Nile Valley, Sudan), 13 millennia old, was considered to be one of the oldest testimonies to prehistoric warfare. Projectile impact puncture with an embedded lithic
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – The Edfu temple is one of the most sacred buildings in Egypt. Known today as Idfu, the ancient city of Edfu located in Upper Egypt, located sixty miles south of Luxor owes its importance to
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – Among many ancient weapons, we find their most unusual shapes. One such weapon is the bronze khopesh, a sickle-shaped sword, usually described as a kind of sword-axe, widely used among warriors in the ancient Near
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Very few complete genomes older than 30,000 years have been sequenced which is why this particular study sheds new light on the theory of evolution, and the out of Africa migration theory. Now, for the
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – We have seen countless examples confirming what many long suspected: ancient people were much more advanced than previously thought. Sumerians, Babylonians and the Akkadians were excellent astronomers who regularly watched the skies. People in Mesopotamia
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeological human remains from the Battles of Himera provide unique opportunities to test early written history. The study contradicts certain claims made in historical accounts by ancient Greek writers because researchers tested these historical claims
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – In ancient Egyptian mythology, Zep Tepi can be translated as the ‘First Time.’ It was during Zep Tepi Gods established their kingdom on Earth in Egypt and performed their deeds that were later described in
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – Unlike mythologies from other ancient cultures, Egyptian mythology does not have many terrible creatures. The most frightening monster creature in this mythology was Apophis (known in Greek as Apophis and in Egypt as Apep), a
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Long before the arrival of Christopher Columbus (1451 – 1506), North and South America had been visited by other ancient civilizations. It is well-known that Christopher Columbus did not discover the New World in 1492.
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Scientists have found evidence of one of the world’s oldest Acheulean sites on the Arabian Peninsula. While excavating at the site, Al Nasim in the northern region of Hail in Saudi Arabia researchers discovered artifacts
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – The Biblical story of the Tower of Babel in Genesis explains why people speak different languages. The Choctaw, a Native American Indian tribe that traditionally lived in what is now southeastern Mississippi, also talk about
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Some of the world’s earliest rock art located at the Maros-Pangkep site in Sulawesi, Indonesia, is rapidly disappearing due to climate change. Rock art dates back to at least 44,000 years ago that are believed
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – In part 1 of this article we spoke about Pharaohs who witnessed strange, unknown flying objects in the skies. We also discussed unusual celestial boats, and time lapses associated with space travel described in an
