Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists were surprised when they unearthed 8,500-year-old-teeth that appeared to have been intentionally drilled to be worn as beads in a necklace or bracelet. While excavating at the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in Turkey, scientists
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Ancient Rapanui carvers worked at the behest of the elite ruling class to carve nearly 1,000 Moai because they, and the community at large, believed the statues capable of producing agricultural fertility and thereby critical
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Most people are familiar with the stories of Atlantis and Lemuria, but there are other lost islands and even entire continents that were thoroughly documented by ancient authors. Since we haven’t found many of these
AncientPages.com – A grave on Lena River sand bank ‘proves site north of Yakutsk city is not historic original Cossack settlement’ in coldest region. An exceptionally well-preserved mummified body of a woman in traditional Yakut clothes with a copper cross
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – The police officers could not logically account for what they saw. It was something they had never seen before, but they had no doubts it was real and not a trick of any sort. They
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Robber’s Cave in Nebraska is a beautiful, historical place rich in folklore. Inside the 5,000-plus square feet cave, thousands of enigmatic engravings have long been shrouded in mystery. Robber’s Cave is older than the city
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – In a region regularly visited by the Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians, Hittites, Assyrians, Romans, Seljuks, and Ottomans, among others, archaeologists have unearthed remarkable structures that open a new page in our history books. At a site
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Scientists have once again discovered evidence supporting the existence of Amazon warriors who have previously been considered merely mythological characters. Russian archaeologists currently conducting excavations in the Voronezh region have discovered an intriguing grave that
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – There are many shrines in Asgard and Midgard, but the most sacred of all is Yggdrasil, the largest of all trees. The branches spread all over the world and reach the sky. The tree grows
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – A mysterious water source located in the middle of a field has puzzled archaeological for decades. Ancient bones discovered at the site reveal the place was used by our ancestors, but for what reason? Was
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Almost everyone is familiar with the Biblical story of how Noah managed to survive the Great Flood. The story of an ancient catastrophe that nearly wiped out our entire world is familiar in different parts
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The Sedlec Ossuary in the Czech Republic is no ordinary Roman Catholic chapel. Located in Sedlec, in the suburbs of Kutna Hora, this is one of the most unusual chapels you can visit. Nicknamed Church
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A number of fragments of royal colossi and a huge mud-brick wall from the New Kingdom have been unearthed at Heliopolis Temple in Matariya, by an Egyptian-German team of archaeologists from the Georg Steindorff Egyptian Museum
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A 3,500-year-old fragmented skull and femur that probably belonged to the Hittite period were recently unearthed in Sapinuwa (now Çorum) in central Anatolia, Turkey. The skull and femur discovered are thought to belong to the
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Three wooden coffins have been uncovered in the courtyard of Padiaménopé tomb (TT 33), by an archaeological team led by from the Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale (IFAO) and the University of Strasbourg directed by Dr.
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Studies of ancient cave drawings are significant because these images provide us with knowledge of our ancestors’ beliefs. Often artists of the past had to crawl through narrow tunnels to access small caves where they
