AncientPages.com – The British Museum has been accused of exhibiting “pilfered cultural property”, by a leading human rights lawyer who is calling for European and US institutions to return treasures taken from “subjugated peoples” by “conquerors or colonial masters”. Geoffrey Robertson QC
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Previously unknown motifs depicted on south-west Sweden’s best-preserved rock paintings have now been revealed by researchers at the University of Gothenburg. The art is probably at least 5,000 years old, perhaps much older. At this
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – First reports of the untraceable stone-throwers started to reach the public in the seventeenth century, but it’s possible the phenomenon is much older. Since then, little or no progress has been made in finding a
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Using drone technology, a team of UF researchers has uncovered an ancient and rare pre-Columbian Florida village. A drone equipped with Light Detection and Ranging quickly collected architectural details and topographic data about the Raleigh
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Who exactly were the Aurignacians, who lived in the Levant 40,000 years ago? The Aurignacian culture first appeared in Europe some 43,000 years ago and is known for having produced bone tools, artifacts, jewelry, musical instruments,
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Remnants of a drystone wall, known as the ‘Gawri Wall’ or ‘Gawri Chen Wall’, dated to the Antique Age have been discovered by Iranian archaeologists working along the borders of Serpol Zehab city in Kermanshah province,
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Our knowledge about Neanderthals is increasing but there is still much we don’t know about our closest extinct human relative. The Neanderthals were members of a group of archaic humans who emerged at least 200,000
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Scientists can now date some stave churches more accurately than in the past. A non-destructive measurement method called photodendrometry was used by researchers, and it shows that several stave churches are older than the dates previously
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Modern scientists have long tried to solve this ancient mystery. What is happening here should be impossible, and yet we cannot deny facts and observations. This ancient sarcophagus is curious for several reasons. The tomb’s
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The existence of Biblical giant Goliath described in the Book of Samuel has not been proven. According to the Biblical account, the Philistine giant Goliath was defeated by the young David with a slingshot and
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The remains of a huge settlement surrounded by a massive brick enclosure, has been discovered during the 1st phase of excavation by a team of Archaeological Survey of India’s Excavation Branch – VI, Bangalore at
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A 1,400-year-old iron hammer and nails from the Byzantine period have been unearthed according to the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) archaeologists. The findings were located by an Israeli family from Tur’an in Lower Galilee, who
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – These tiny gold foil figures are mainly associated with the Pre-Viking Age, but what were they used for? A metal detector discovered an ancient gold piece of gold depicting a man and woman at Hovland
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Hundreds of years ago people witnessed a strange phenomenon in the skies. The mysterious object visible over a large city was unlike anything seen before. At the time of the sighting, the strange cosmic intruder
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A marble statuette of the Roman goddess Cybele has been unearthed during archaeological works at the Forum site in Bulgaria’s city of Plovdiv, reports The Sofia Globe. The statuette is believed to date from the
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Can the old Aztec technique in the form of innovative ‘chinampas’ (‘artificial island’) contribute to better urban farming today? Researchers led by Roland Ebel from the Sustainable Food Systems Program at Montana State University examined
