Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Underwater excavation suggests a massive paleo-tsunami struck near the ancient settlement of Tel Dor between 9,910 to 9,290 years ago. Tel Dor was a maritime city-mound occupied from the Middle Bronze II period (2000-1550 BCE)
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – There are many interesting stories of people who experienced something unexplained, but few incidents are, as out of the ordinary as the accounts we discuss today. When we come across such stories we have reasons
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The two-meter-long Roman mosaic dating back to the city’s Roman occupation between 60 BC. and AD 300 was uncovered under a municipality building by a team of workers who were carrying out excavations to extend
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A total of 49 works of ancient art that had been looted and smuggled out of Iran some four decades ago have recently been returned home with the aid of Swiss officials. One the glazed
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A team of researchers led by Harvard Medical School’s David Reich analyzed the genomes of 263 individuals in the largest study of ancient human DNA in the Americas to date. Some archaeologists pointed to dramatic
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Excavations in Pompeii have never ended and for the first time ever archaeologists can report they have discovered an entire thermopolium. Thermopolium, the word comes from the Greek “thermos” for hot and “poleo” to sell
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – An ancient tomb site on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau has been excavated by Chinese archaeologists. Wooden figurines discovered at the tomb site may provide evidence of early exchanges between Tibet and surrounding areas, according to researchers.
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Was there once an advanced Polar civilization that suddenly vanished without a trace millions of years ago? Can some perplexing anomalies clearly contradicting traditional theories of humanity’s beginnings offer evidence an unknown culture lived in
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Remote sensing technology has revealed more about one of the Roman Empire’s most infamous conflicts. The discovery of dozens of new Roman Army sites shows the Roman army had a larger presence in the region
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Considered as the symbol and protector of fertility and abundance in pre-historic times, Cybele statue is now displayed in an Istanbul museum. The goddess Cybele, a Phrygian goddess originating in the mythology of ancient Anatolia,
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Scientists are attempting to unravel the mystery of a Roman noblewoman who was buried in a sarcophagus under London’s Spitalfields market. Who was this woman? Why did she come to London? Her silk clothes, interwoven
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The collector with ‘advanced archaeological knowledge’ used metal detectors to illegally build his own collection of valuable artifacts by secretly looting various sites in eastern France. Image credit – Yahoo French officials have seized more
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Now, researchers say that it was climate change, not Genghis Khan, that was the ultimate cause for the demise of Central Asia’s forgotten river civilizations. The long-held view was that the destruction of Central Asia’s
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A ‘lost’ 5,000-year-old artifact -one of only three objects ever recovered from inside of the pyramid’s Queen’s Chamber, has been finally found at the University of Aberdeen, and it was a ‘chance discovery’ researchers say.
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – On March 10, 241 B.C. the Carthaginian fleet was totally defeated near the Aegates Islands off western Sicily by the Romans. The event known as the Battle of the Egadi Islands was the final battle of
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – A rush of joy overwhelmed archaeologists today when they discovered a unique runestone that has been lost for 300 years! The runestone was once part of the now destroyed Hunnestad monument, and no-one had hopes
