Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – An international team of scientists has now pinpointed the precise date and nature of the Ilopango volcanic eruption that took place 1590 years ago. In 431 CE, 1590 years ago, the Maya civilization was laid
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A team led by Ana Isabel Ortega Martínez, an archaeologist at the CENIEH (Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana), has recently confirmed that the cave art in the Sala de las Pinturas at
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Whenever the Sphinx is mentioned most think of Egypt, but the Sphinx was a being most ancient civilizations were familiar with. Artifacts depicting the Sphinx were produced in ancient India, Persia, Greece, Israel, and other
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Researchers have completed the excavation of a huge 2,500-year-old water cistern, located in Lumbarda on the southern Croatian island of Korčula. Throughout its history, Lumbarda was a region combining various nations and cultures, and current
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Ancient paintings showing eight Buddhist saints possibly dating back to over 1,300 years ago have been discovered on temple columns blackened by soot. The images were found at the main hall columns of Shiga Prefecture’s
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Findings inside a cave named Lapa do Picareiro, located near the Atlantic coast of central Portugal have just re-written history. Studies of tools found in the cave reveal modern humans arrived in the westernmost part
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – An ancient temple dated to the Neolithic period in the oldest place of worship was discovered at Kahin Tepe located in the northern province of Kastamonu’s Araç district on northern Turkey’s Black Sea coast. Systematically
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – 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 sites in the distant past. Could it have been
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – The history of Sais goes back to Egypt’s pre-dynastic times (before 3100 BC). It was once a beautiful Egyptian city located in the western Egyptian delta along the right bank of the Rosetta Branch of
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – More than 50 terracotta figurines have been found in the ancient city of Myra in the Demre district of the southern province of Antalya that consisted of partially preserved clay female, male, god, goddess, ram, and horseman figurines
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A team of archaeologists has unearthed a historical grave dating back to the Parthian era in a village of the western province of Kurdistan. Image credit: Iran Front Page The tomb’s chamber contains an ancient
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – More and more artifacts are returned to the countries they came from. Recently, antique Tamil Nadu statues were returned by Britain to India, and now, a 1,800-year-old Lydian era atonement inscription returns to Turkey, after
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A new study shows Neanderthals and modern humans are more related than previously thought. Studies of the Y chromosomes of Neanderthals and Denisovans have not yet been possible because researchers only had access to sufficient
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The petroglyphs of Sego Canyon in Utah resemble beings found in science fiction movies, but these figures are not modern inventions. These carvings were created thousands of years ago, and their alien-like appearance has led
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists in northwestern Turkey discovered a sun disk on a rock altar in the ancient Thracian settlement. The Thracian rock altar, unearthed in Edirne, dates to 3,500 years ago, according to Prof. Dr. Engin Beksac,
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists have unearthed parts of a loom, tools for creating textiles and accessories dating back four millennia in western Turkey. A view of the mill in Denizli, western Turkey, Sept. 23, 2020. Image credit: DHA “Last
