AncientPages.com – The 1st century AD inscription printed on an ancient clay vessel in an ancient Thracian burial mound near the town of Tatarevo in Southern Bulgaria is a verse from the poem “Prayer to the Muses” by Ancient Greek
AncientPages.com – Ornate ancient Thracian marble steles from a Thracian shrine dedicated to the sun have been restored with a permanent open-air exhibition of replicas of the steles. The ancient Thracian shrine is located in the area known as Stolovatets,
AncientPages.com – A rare 3,000-year-old seal, from the time of King David in the 10th century BCE, was recently discovered by a 10-year-old Russian volunteer at Jerusalem’s Temple Mount Sifting Project. Dr. Gabriel Barkay, co-founder and director of the project
AncientPages.com – Research into human fossils dating back to approximately two million years ago reveals that the hearing pattern resembles chimpanzees, but with some slight differences in the direction of humans. An international team of scientists led by Rolf Quam
AncientPages.com – Archaeologists from Odense City Museums have opened a stone coffin beneath the city’s smal timber church of St. Alban’s Priory in Odense, Denmark The coffin with the remains had remained untouched for about 1,000 years, reports DR.dk. The
AncientPages.com – Long-term excavations at the Hellenistic city of Pisidia Antiocheia, an important center of early Christianity revealed that the settlement was occupied since the Neolithic age. The ancient city’ site is located approximately in Isparta Province, Turkey. The city’s
AncientPages.com – Three massive, mysterious amphoras have been unearthed during excavations in the Kaniş-Kültepe-Karum archaeological field in Kayseri. While still unsure as to their use, experts said it would be difficult to produce such amphoras, even with today’s technology. The
AncientPages.com – There are many reasons why we should treat the wisdom of the past seriously. Many of our so-called modern inventions are in fact nothing more than re-inventions of technology our ancestors were familiar with thousands of years ago. Giving
AncientPages.com – A unique belt made of pure silver dating back to the 2nd-4th centuries AD is among several other precious items discovered by archaeologists during the construction of a sewage system in Rusovce, a suburb of Bratislava,’ reports The
AncientPages.com – Armenia is one of the oldest countries in the world. Scientific researches, archaeological findings, old cuneiform inscriptions, ancient maps and even the Holy Bible provide lots of evidence that the Armenian Highland is the craddle of human civilization. In
AncientPages.com – The International Symposium “Cycladica in Crete: Cycladic and Cycladicizing figurines within their archaeological context” will take place on Thursday 1st and Friday 2nd October 2015 at the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens. The purpose of the Symposium on the Cycladic and
AncientPages.com – Remains of at least 50 people, all believed to date from 11th and early 12th century, have beeen discovered during demolition work to make space for new tower. The bones of men who may have witnessed the tumultuous
AncientPages.com – A Bronze Age burial site has recently been discovered in Azerbaijan. Parviz Gasimov, an official at the Archeology and Ethnography Institute of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences confirmed that the “Karabakh” archaeological expedition headed by Hidayet Jafarov
AncientPages.com – An international team of researchers led by André Strauss of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, presents evidence for a 9,000 year-old case of human decapitation that has been found in the rock shelter
AncientPages.com – A British archaeological team from the Field Museum and Oxford University conducted excavations between 1923 and 1929 in Kish City, 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of Baghdad. Since then, no other excavations have been made in the city, which
AncientPages.com – Nearly 50 people living in a cave and living off passing travellers by robbing, killing, butchering and eating them. The legend of Alexander Sawney Bean, and his clan of 48, has been a staple of Scottish folklore since the
