Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Since the beginning of time, humans have looked at the sky wondering if someone from above was keeping a watching eye on us. Strange and unexplained phenomena in the skies have led the ancients to
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The Egyptian ministries of antiquities and foreign affairs have called on Christie’s auction house and UNESCO to stop the sale of a quartzite head from a 3,000-year-old stone statue of King Tutankhamun, and return it to Egypt
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists in Maine have reason to feel excited. They have just excavated what is believed to be the oldest dugout canoe ever found in the state of Maine. The canoe was discovered while scientists conducting
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – During the Iron Age around 300 AD something extraordinary was initiated in Levänluhta area in Isokyrö, SW Finland. People were buried in a lake but it’s unknown why the deceased were placed underwater. Researchers have
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Adelasius Ebalchus lived in what is now northern Switzerland some 1,300 years ago, centuries after the collapse of the Roman Empire. Who was he and what can he tell us about life during the Early
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – In part 1 of this series we talked about the ancient history of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. We discussed what this ancient place may have looked like and why it was built. We raised
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – An underground city partly submerged underwater and estimated to be around 5,000 years old was discovered by municipality crews trying to determine the cause of flooding in several houses in the Avanos district of Turkey’s
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – What were the Hanging Gardens of Babylon and what did they look like? Did they really exist and for what purpose were they built? Who built them and how was the construction achieved? According to
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Long before farming appeared, humans were cooking, roasting and eating plant roots and this habit is 120,000 years old, according a new study. A team of archaeologists from South African and British universities discovered charred
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A 2,300-year-old tablet with the ancient Greek alphabet was accidentally discovered inside the garden wall of a school in Turkey’s southwestern Mugla province during road construction works, reports Daily Sabah. The tablet, which was safely
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A new study suggests that northern and central Asia’s wetter climates may have allowed Homo sapiens to expand across the deserts of Central Asia by 50-30,000 years ago. In fact, humans may have moved through these extreme settings
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – In part 1 of this series, we discussed ancient historical mass disappearances that have long puzzled historians. We will continue and explore more baffling cases involving a large number of people who vanished without a
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The causes of disappearance of the Neanderthals, the only human population living in Europe before the arrival of Homo sapiens, have been debated for decades by the scientific community. Different hypotheses have been advanced to explain
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Many disappearances have been recorded throughout history. Most intriguing are cases of mass disappearances of people organized in armies of soldiers who disappeared without a trace, or very large groups of people who enter a
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Nauka w Polsce reports that one of Egypt’s oldest churches dating back to the 4th century was found hidden behind ancient basilica wall by Polish archaeologists. Archaeologists say this church could be one of the
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – KU Leuven researchers have reconstructed two lifelike faces – one of a Roman-era man (early third century CE) and one of a Middle-Byzantine woman (11th-13th century CE) thata originate from the archaeological site of Sagalassos, an
