During excavations at Mexico City’s Templo Mayor Aztec ruin site, archaeologists have discovered a massive tzompantli, or trophy skull rack of sacrificed human skulls. It was built between 1485 and 1502. ‘Racks known as “tzompantli” were where the Aztecs displayed
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A series of murals recently discovered in Shimao Ruins indicate that the basic production process and rendering techniques used to make Chinese murals might be more than 4,000 years old. Shimao ruins, Shaanxi Province. Photo credit:
AncientPages.com – The Natufians, who existed 15,000 – 11,500 years ago, represented a fascinating ancient culture. These people lived in there region known as the Levant (modern Palestine, Israel, Syria and Jordan). Earlier, the Natufians, roaming hunter gatherers, known as the
AncientPages.com – Archaeologists have unearthed remains of pit houses and ditches that indicated boundaries at a site dating to the fourth century A.D. in Japan’s Nara Prefecture known as the Nakanishi ruins. The excavations are conducted in the vicinity of
A mutilated figurine of Ancient Roman god Mars has been found by archaeologists during the excavations of the Early Byzantine and medieval Bulgarian city of Missionis, also known as Krum’s Fortress, whose ruins are located near today’s northeastern city of
AncientPages.com – The Archaeology and Ethnography Institute under the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences has discovered new archaeological materials during an excavation conducted on the frontline in Azerbaijan’s Agdam region. The head of the expedition, Hidayat Jafarova, said that the archaeologists
AncientPages.com – The Aşıklı Mound, where settlement first started in the Cappadocia region 11,000 years ago, offers a chance to travel back in time. Archaeological excavations have been continuing for 26 years in the mound, located in Kızılkaya village in
AncientPages.com – Excavations at the Central Anatolian province of Çorum’s Alacahöyük site, one of the significant centers of the ancient Hittite civilization and Turkey’s first national excavation field, have unearthed various artifacts in a 3,700 year-old mine factory. Professor Aykut
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – The mysterious ancient city of Ebla (“White Rock”) existed a thousand years before the biblical time of Kings David and Solomon. The Assyrians, led by Sargon of Akkad’s grandson Naram-Sin (ca. 2240 BC), destroyed Ebla
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – One of the earliest written records describing a very strange event witnessed in the skies comes from Egypt. It is an account of an unusual celestial phenomenon as observed by the ancient Egyptians more than 3,500
AncientPages.com – A 2,000-year-old square labyrinth has been discovered in Gedimedu, a village 16km from Pollachi, Tamil Nadu state, India, by researchers from the Verarajendran Archaeological and Historical Research Centre, Tirupur. The finding attains significance as the site lies on
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – The Codex Washingtonianus is the world’s third oldest Bible, and it is at the Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery of Art. It comprises the four Gospels in the so-called Western order (Matthew, John, Luke, and Mark, as Dea).
AncientPages.com – Ancient Irish people carved images of an ancient eclipse into giant stones over 5,000 years ago, on November 30, 3340 BC to be exact. This is the oldest known recorded solar eclipse in history. The illustrations are found on
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – This is a highly controversial and thought-provoking subject. We will therefore investigate the topic from a scientific and mythological point of view. The human reptilian connection is very old. Reptilian-like humanoids and “Lizard- people” are
AncientPages.com – A star chart found on the ceiling in the stone chamber of the Kitora Tomb Asuka, located in Asuka, Nara Prefecture, Japan was based on celestial observations made centuries earlier in China, researchers say. Discovered in 1983, the
AncientPages.com – Some 2,000 spirals made of gold have been unearthed in a field in southwestern Zealand, where four gold bracelets and six gold bowls have been found in the past. The trove of gold spirals may have been used for
