Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – We waste a lot more valuable marble than builders who worked with marble statues, columns, or slabs under Roman Empire! Ancient Roman imperial architecture is often associated with white marble statues, columns, or slabs. However,
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Every person is different, but coping with isolation can be difficult to some. Ancient people on Easter Island lived long in isolation and there may be something important to learn from our ancestors who handled
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Destroyed by King Murdoch O’Brien of Munster in 1101, the little-known stone ringfort Grianán Of Aileach was once home to the Kingdom of Ailech. Situated on top of Greenan Mountain at Inishowen in County Donegal,
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – Khara-Khoto (“black city” or “black water city”) was inhabited by Tangut people and located about 200 miles north of the legendary Silk Highway and 625 miles west of the Inner Mongolian capital of Hohhot. Today,
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – How much did ancient Egyptians know about life in the Universe? Did they believe beings from outer space had once visited their kingdom? Were ancient Egyptians more familiar with alien beings than we can imagine?
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – To some, the ancient burial mounds are standing on a piece of land that can be used for building new homes and factories. To others like the group Guardians of the Mounds, the burial mounds
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Scientists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) investigated the longest aqueduct of the time, the 426-kilometer-long Aqueduct of Valens supplying Constantinople, and revealed new insights into how this structure was maintained back in time. Aqueducts
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – The Judaculla Rock in North Carolina is one of the greatest mysteries in North America. The 230-square-foot soapstone boulder is covered with more than fifteen hundred ancient carvings and petroglyphs, and is by no means
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Despite marked differences in burial customs, architecture, and art, the Minoan civilization in Crete, the Helladic civilization in mainland Greece and the Cycladic civilization in the Cycladic Islands, located in the middle of the Aegean
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Our knowledge of Cambodia’s Greater Angkor region has increased thanks to new LIDAR images. It has long been known this region was once home to a very large ancient city, but the exact number of
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A marble head of the Roman emperor Augustus was unearthed in the Italian town of Isernia, located in the region of Molise, a mountainous Italian region with a stretch of coastline on the Adriatic Sea.
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A rare bronze oil lamp, shaped like a grotesque face that is cut in half, was recently unearthed during excavations conducted in the City of David National Park. This special bronze lamp was deliberately buried
Ellen Lloyd—AncientPages.com – In South America, certain giant ancient statues point their index fingers in a specific location. Unknown races sculptured these statues. In North and South America, locals tell stories of a forgotten ancient empire that extended far beyond America
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A portion of royal memorial inscription, which is attributed to a Neo-Assyrian king, has been unearthed by a team of archaeologists in western Iran. Sajad Alibeigi, who leads the survey said that the inscription that
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – In ancient Egyptian religion, Ra (Re) was the god of the sun and creation, who was born each morning in the East and died each night in the West. In the night, he traveled through
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Russian archaeologists have found the burial place of the last two rulers of the Pereslavl-Zalessky principality – Princes Dmitry Alexandrovich and Ivan Dmitrievich, the son and grandson of Alexander Nevsky. “The two princely sarcophagi were
