Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The loss of tropical rainforests and grasslands that once dominated Southeast Asia caused the extinction of many of the region’s megafauna, and probably of ancient humans too, according to scientists from the Department of Archaeology
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The Great Sphinx of Giza, Machu Picchu, Stonehenge, Moai statues, Petra, Ephesus, and many, many other magnificent ancient sites can be added to the list of sites worthy of admiration for anyone interested in ancient
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Ancient Romans understood the value of salt. Salt was a scarce and expensive commodity, and its value was legendary. In fact, “the word salary can be traced to ancient Rome and the history of salt.
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists from the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology of the University of Warsaw (PCMA UW) have digitally reconstructed buildings that can now be visited on the computer screen. Aerial view of the monastery in Ghazali.
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – In a careful interdisciplinary study of rare shields finds, researchers are finally able to reveal the last piece of the puzzle of how Vikings and their ancestors in the Iron Age made their shields. Viking
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists have found a burial of an Anglo-Saxon warlord in Berkshire that could redraw the map of post-Roman Britain. It could also change historians’ understanding of southern Britain in the early Anglo-Saxon era. The remains
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Throughout its history, the ancient city of Patara on Turkey’s Mediterranean coast, was a region combining various nations and cultures. Image credit: AA In Patara, archaeologists have now unearthed the remains of a kitchen and
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – More than 2,000-year-old burial complex has been excavated in the south of Khakassia by a team of Siberian archaeologists. Left: Individual burial of a warrior; Right: The central part of the mound and the preserved
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A workshop for smelting copper ore once operated in the Neveh Noy neighborhood of Beer Sheva, the capital of the Negev Desert, according to a new study by Tel Aviv University and the Israel Antiquities
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The cathedral in Odense, Denmark, has for nine centuries held the relics of the Danish King St. Canute the Holy and his brother Benedikt. They were both murdered here in AD 1086, and just a
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – As already mentioned in part 1 of this article, in America, we come across a couple of places that are unusual because scientists and independent researchers have discovered physical evidence something horrible happened at the
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – An Egyptian archaeological mission uncovered an impressive collection of 59 intact and sealed coffins at Saqqara Necropolis south of Cairo. Image credit: Reuters Sixty ambassadors and international media representatives flocked to the scene on Saturday
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Egyptian archaeologists have uncovered a number of ancient Egyptian artifacts in a burial well in Minya Governorate. The findings include a limestone coffin, a number of shabti figures in Minya’s Al-Gharafa archaeological area of Tuna
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A carved statue of the god Nefertum was unearthed in Saqqara necropolis alongside a group of intact wooden coffins. The Egyptian archaeologists excavating at Saqqara, which is led by Mostafa Waziri, secretary-general of the Supreme
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Stone animals such as stone lions and stone rams were placed on top of the tombstones of brave and courageous people as a symbol of abundance and great courage in the face of danger, especially
Jan Bartek- AncientPages.com – A very strange 5,000-year-old clay figurine has been found in Siberia. The Bronze Age statuette has a tattooed face and a bone mask. It was discovered inside a mass burial where it had been placed on
