AncientPages.com – Archaeologists digging in Newhaven, a historic fishing village in Scotland, discovered poorly preserved human bones dated to the sixteenth or seventeenth century. The team was looking for traces of the original ancient harbor and possible artifacts related to shipbuilding.
AncientPages.com – An ancient road built using the polygonal technique has been accidentally discovered during drainage works conducted at an archaeological site in the southern province of Mersin’s historical Tarsus district. Tarsus is a Turkish city 27 kilometers east of Mersin, best known
AncientPages.com – Archaeologists have found new evidence that suggests date of origin of Tel Al-Dafna site, located at the Al-Qantara West area in Ismailiya, 11 kilometres west of the Suez Canal,informed Antiquities Ministry Mamdouh al Damaty. The team found lava remains
AncientPages.com – The Asclepieion also known as the Asclepius sanctuary is located at the southern slope of Acropolis but it was unknown until a few years ago. Asclepius was the god of medicine and healing in ancient Greek religion and mythology. His cult became extremely popular
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Beneath the streets of Paris, there is a huge underground labyrinth with dark galleries and narrow passages. It’s a gruesome place of great historical value. The Paris catacombs contain skeletal remains of some 6 to
AncientPages.com – Ivan IV “the Terrible” of Russia (1530-1584) was a cruel tyrant, who never knew the meaning of moderation; he drank too much, laughed too loudly and hated and loved too fiercely. And he never forgot anything. Ivan was definitely
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – In Norse mythology, the gods and goddesses sprang from a mixed race and were not immortal. They had to regularly eat the amazing golden apples from Idun’s garden to ward off disease, disability, and old age,
AncientPages.com – A black granite statue of King Amenhotep III was found by chance in a residential house in Al-Nakhl village in Edfu, Aswan. In collaboration with Edfu police, Egypt’s Antiquities Ministry has succeeded in recovering a black granite colossus of
AncientPages.com – It wasn’t any easy task to restore the seventh-century Baekje-era stone pagoda at the UNESCO-registered Mireuksa Temple site in Iksan, North Jeolla Province. The 1,300-year-old pagoda is indeed, an important project in Korea, but no proven historical records could guide
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A few years back, Rosh Ha‘ayin unveiled some remarkable historical treasures. Photo credit: Assaf Peretz, Israel Antiquities Authority, and Griffin Higher Photography. An imposing farmstead from First Temple era, a monastery, and a church adorned with
AncientPages.com – An impressive 2,700 year old farmhouse and a 1,500 year old church with colorful mosaics and inscriptions in it were uncovered in the excavations in Rosh Ha-Ayin, the Israel Antiquities Authority spokesperson, informed. The farmhouse (30 × 50 meters had
AncientPages.com – The wreck of an ancient ship has been discovered off the coast of Salento. It is believed the wreck dates back to either the 12th or 13th century. The sunken ship, made almost entirely of wood and measuring 18 metres by
AncientPages.com – A team of geneticists from Trinity College Dublin and archaeologists from Queen’s University Belfast have sequenced the genomes of an early farmer woman, who lived near Belfast some 5,200 years ago, and three men from a later period, around
AncientPages.com – An impressive marble statue of a ram, an ancient Christian symbol for Jesus, was discovered on Christmas Eve during the excavation of a Byzantine-period church in Caesarea, the Israel Antiquities Authority spokesperson, informed. The discovery was made last Thursday morning
AncientPages.com – Mosaics were a common feature of private homes and public buildings across the Roman empire. They were beautiful works of art depicting food, tools they used, clothes, animals and flowers. They also constitute invaluable records of the Romans daily
AncientPages.com – Archaeologists discovered two niches with six figures cut in rock inside two New Kingdom chapels in the Gebel Al-Silsila area, Egypt’s largest sandstone quarries located to the north of Aswan. The discovery was made during a survey carried out by
