Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – It’s time to return once again to Antarctica and explore some of the frozen continent’s many secrets. This article examines a strange encounter reported by a group of researchers who state they were confronted face
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A metal detectorist has discovered a very rare ancient Roman artifact in a Lincolnshire field, UK. Experts say this beautiful and colorful horse brooch has rewritten the understandings of Roman brooches. Jason Price, from Grantham
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The smallest Homo erectus cranium in Africa and diverse stone tools found at Gona, Ethiopia, indicate that human ancestors were more varied, both physically and behaviorally, than previously known. The DAN5 cranium. Image credit: Dr. Michael
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Patara Lighthouse was found during the excavations carried out in Patara Antique city, and the structure is exactly 60 years older than the Tower of Hercules in Corunna, Spain. Built by the Roman Emperor Nero
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Sometimes archaeologists uncover evidence that confirms Biblical accounts, but not always. Ruins of a mysterious ancient temple in Jerusalem speak against certain Biblical stories. The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) is currently excavating at the Biblical
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A stone chest has been discovered in Balatlar Church in Sinop, northern Turkey. Archaeologists say the chest is believed to have stored fragments of the cross on which Jesus Christ was crucified. A stone chest
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Did an ancient superior civilization deliberately hide several cultural and scientific artifacts in deep, secret underground vaults? Are these ancient treasures from the ‘beginning’ of the world? An ancient scroll reveals the location of a
AncientPages.com – On February 29, 1576 – Antonio Neri , a Florentine priest, was born in Florence, Italy. Neri was a glass maker, who conducted experiments with colored glass and imitations of precious stones. His results were published in 1612 in
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A 5,000-year-old Anatolian sword was identified in a monastery on the island of San Lazzaro degli Armeni in the Lagoon City. A small sword – placed among several medieval items in a display cabinet – was
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Originally erected in 1158 to 1160, the magnificent Dormition Cathedral is currently undergoing restoration work. It’s not the first time the church has been reconstructed, but this time workers discovered beautiful, never before seen ancient
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – Pyramid Texts represent the oldest known collection of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic inscriptions containing religious texts, elaborate spells (or utterances), hymns, prayers, thousands of lines of fragments of myths and legends, references to mortuary and funerary
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – More than 8,000 tree-shrouded structures of varying sizes along the sacbe (white road) – with enough total volume to fill approximately 2,900 Olympic swimming pools – have been identified by researchers using lidar technology. Built
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Ancient Egypt never ceases to amaze the world. This time archaeologists report the discovery of a beautiful, rare ancient leopard painting found on a wooden lid of a sarcophagus in the Aswan necropolis. To ancient
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – History of the ancient city of Asyut goes back about 4,000 years ago. Thousands of tombs carved into the rock and dating back from the Ancient Kingdom to the Roman Era attest to the rich
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Neanderthal-Denisovan ancestors interbred with a distantly related hominin 700,000 years ago. For three years, anthropologist Alan Rogers, professor of anthropology at the University of Utah has attempted to solve an evolutionary puzzle. Ancient Human Populations.
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A lost ancient kingdom dating to 1400 B.C. to 600 B.C., which may have defeated Phrygia, the kingdom ruled by King Midas, was discovered by archaeologists from the Oriental Institute. King Midas was the most
