AncientPages.com – Over 7,000 stone tools were unearthed in excavations at archaeological site at Attirampakkam, about 60 kilometers from Chennai in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The tools were used by human ancestors between 385,000 to 172,000 years ago,
AncientPages.com – Archaeologists report discovery of tomb that belong to the 5th Dynasty top official Hetpet who was the priestess of Hathor, an ancient Egyptian goddess who personified the principles of joy, feminine love, and motherhood. After almost 109 years of searching, the tomb was
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – There is plenty of evidence that our ancestors much more advanced than we previously thought. The use of electricity is supposed to be a modern invention, but various ancient sources reveal ancient civilizations were familiar with
AncientPages.com – Historical records state that the Viking Great Army wintered in Repton, Derbyshire, in 873 A.D. and drove the Mercian king into exile. Using radiocarbon dating scientists have examined a mass grave and discovered something gruesome. As Ancient Pages reported
AncientPages.com – Using LiDAR (light detection and ranging) technology researchers of Ithaca College uncovered thousands of new Maya structures previously undetected beneath smothering vegetation. The survey of encompassed Several major Maya sites, including the largest at Tikal, and El Zotz have
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – The location of Biringan City is unknown. Ancient legends and myths refer to Biringan City as a mysterious place inhabited by ancient spirits and Engkantos (“enchanted beings”) who are shapeshifters able to take on human form.
AncientPages.com – It would seem that all ancient myths about a great flood are true after all. About 12,800 years ago, the Earth emerged from another ice age. Things were warming up, and the glaciers had retreated. Suddenly, the sky was
AncientPages.com – Researchers at University of California, Davis have centered their study on how dice were made and changed over the last 2000 years. The dice accompanied people very long time and during this time they had different shapes and sizes.
AncientPages.com – The Whitechapel murders that terrorized London in 1888 are still remembered thanks to the legend of Jack the Ripper, who was never caught. The true identity of Jack the Ripper has never been solved. There are rumors, speculations, but
AncientPages.com – Apparently, power of Pharaoh Ramses is fake news. Archaeological evidence from an Egyptian excavation 200 miles east of the Libyan border has helped ruin the formidable reputation of one of the country’s most famous pharaohs – Ramses the Great.
AncientPages.com – Many skilled cryptographers have studied the Voynich Manuscript and many attempts have been made to crack the ancient code and they have failed. Now, computing scientists – Greg Kondrak and his graduate student Bradley Hauer – at the University of
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – In the foothills of Turkish Kurdistan, in eastern Anatolia, there is an unusual tribe called Alevi. The mysterious Alevi do not only differ in their physical appearance compared to other people living in the region, but
AncientPages.com – Swedish Maritime divers discovered two shipwrecks, including one possibly dating back to the 14th century. Occasionally old vessels are found in the Baltic Sea’s graveyard with at least 100 intact old shipwrecks resting on the seabed. Most of them
AncientPages.com – A new species of dinosaur Mansourasaurus shahinae, found recently in the Sahara Desert of Egypt, will help to reconstruct the course of dinosaur evolution in Africa, researchers say. Not much is known about Africa’s land-dwelling animals at the end
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – Ancient ‘smiling faces’ are small figurines of reddish clay, associated with ancient cultures of Maya and Aztec. Usually, these ceramic sculptures were solid or hollow-bodied, small in size, sometimes larger, and always with their characteristic facial
AncientPages.com – Archaeopteryx – the oldest bird species yet discovered – lived about 150 million years ago in what is now Northern Bavaria, Germany. Archaeopteryx has long been accepted as a transitional form between birds and reptiles, and the earliest known bird. All the
