Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – There are many ways to gain knowledge about our mysterious ancient past. One can follow the latest archaeology news, read books about ancient civilizations, visit museums, and study artifacts or examine ancient manuscripts. Studying little-known
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – An international research team has sequenced the genomes of the oldest securely dated modern humans in Europe who lived around 45,000 years ago in Bacho Kiro Cave, Bulgaria. In their study, they compared their genomes to
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Have you ever wanted to see what the famous, ancient Baalbek temples in Lebanon once looked like? Now you have the chance to do just that. A magnificent virtual 3D tour of Heliopolis, as the
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Shortly before Giovanni di Bicci de’ Medici died, he told his son Cosimo di Giovanni de’ Medici never to go against the will of the people. It is advice Cosimo followed all his life, and
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Britain has still not returned thirty Stone Age statues that were taken for restoration in 1990. According to Daifallah Hdeithat, the head of the Mesha Centre for Studies and Human Rights in Jordan, the statues
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Using magnetic imaging, scientists have re-discovered ancient burial mounds in Iowa that were presumably lost to history. These Native American mounds were spotted on land that had been plowed and leveled. Another piece of good
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – As explained in part 1, depending on which ancient text one reads there are different versions of this story, but they all relate more or less to the same event. We know ancient texts reveal
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – In the Rigveda, a collection of hymns, the authors appeal to many gods, and one of them is the goddess Aditi, who is believed to be the most mysterious deity of the Indian pantheon. She
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The University of Aberdeen is to return a Benin bronze – a sculpture looted by British soldiers in Nigeria in one of the most notorious examples of the pillaging of cultural treasures associated with 19th-century
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Pirate Henry Every was an English pirate who operated in the Atlantic and Indian oceans in the mid-1690s. Dubbed “The Arch Pirate” and “The King of Pirates” by contemporaries, Captain Henry Every used a number
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – This is really great news to anyone who appreciates art and culture. The Louvre Museum has announced it has put its entire collection online for free! The collection contains nearly half a million items you
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – We can begin this story by saying we have no evidence for King Solomon, other than the Holy Bible, Quran, and certain less known sacred texts. Whether King Solomon was a real individual or a
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The Scythians were a multitude of horse-warrior nomad cultures dwelling in the Eurasian steppe during the first millennium BCE. Because of the lack of first-hand written records, little is known about their origins and relations
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Valsgärde is a large Viking burial cemetery located not far from Uppsala in Sweden. Today it’s just a name few, even in Sweden have heard about, but in ancient times this was a place where
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Every society has some degree of wealth inequality—over history, in different cultures across continents. There always seem to be some people who have more than others, so traditionally, inequality has always varied. Archaeologists examined the
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – In the Prose Edda book “Gylfaginning,” an Icelandic historian, poet, and politician, Snorri Sturluson (1179-1241), described the goddess Lofn, who “let people live together, women and men, even if previously it was for them forbidden or considered illegal”
