AncientPages.com – An 8-meter quartzite colossus possibly depicting Ramses II, one of ancient Egypt’s most powerful pharaohs, has been unearthed by German-Egyptian archaeological team. Excavations at the ancient archaeological site, Heliopolis (also known as “Oun”) in Cairo, also revealed limestone bust

AncientPages.com – A team of German archaeologists has discovered parts from 66 statues of the lion-headed Pharaonic goddess Sekhmet. The archaeologists unearthed the statues during excavations in the area between the courtyard and the hall of columns in the temple. Their

AncientPages.com – Two 1.82-meter-high statues have been found in the grotto in Shimenshan area in the Dazu Rock Carvings in Chongqing, China. Shimenshan Rock Carvings are located to the east of Dazu County, during the Song dynasty. The name Shimen literally

AncientPages.com – An underground cache of bronze wares has been unearthed from a tomb site dating back 2,300 years in the city of Chengdu, a large city located n Sichuan, China. Chengdu – the earliest settlement in Southwest China –  is a

AncientPages.com – Using a combination of radiocarbon dating and ancient DNA, researchers show that a maternal dynasty ruled Pueblo Bonito in New Mexico’s Chaco Canyon, for more than 300 years. Researchers extracted DNA from nine skeletal remains of people buried inside

AncientPages.com – Archaeologists have discovered16 engraved limestone blocks, created 38,000 years ago, during an expedition in France’s Vézère Valley, Vézère Valley was used as a shelter by the Aurignacian people who are considered Europe’s earliest human culture. The discovery gives evidence

AncientPages.com – A team of international archaeologists has just begun exploring a mysterious ancient staircase in the Phnom Kulen in Siem Reap province, near the Angkor World Heritage Site in northwestern Cambodia. Phnom Kulen (its name means “mountain of the lychees”) is

AncientPages.com – It was long believed that Egyptian temple culture was declining in the Ptolemaic era, after the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC. Egyptologist Carina van den Hoven who studied the ritual scenes depicted on the walls of

AncientPages.com – Two inscription of great historical importance have been found in the Western Galilee town of Peqi’in in Israel. The 1,800-year-old inscriptions were found in in the courtyard of an ancient synagogue. Archaeologists and historians find the text highly significant because

AncientPages.com – Archaeologists in Egypt are busy with restoration of a statue of the celebrated 19th dynasty pharaoh, Ramesses II. Colossus of Ramesses II (Ramsess II) once decorated the façade of the first pylon of the Karnak Temple Complex. The statue is

AncientPages.com – There are numerous Hindu temples dedicated to the Supreme Being, Lord Shiva, Hindu god known by many names and titles and one of the three main gods in the Hindu pantheon. Five temples were built to Shiva, who controls

AncientPages.com – More than 100 plant seeds dating back 2,000 years have been unearthed from an ancient tomb in northern China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The seeds, which are half-moon-shaped, were discovered gathered in the shape of a circle with a

AncientPages.com – Some several thousand years ago, there once flourished a great civilization in the Indus Valley. The largest of the four ancient civilizations of Egypt, Mesopotamia, India and China, Indus Civilization covered an area of what is today Pakistan and

AncientPages.com – For generations, Okinawans potters produced fascinating pottery, of which fragments are still being unearthed. A fragment of pottery, which is believed to have come from earthenware, was unearthed about six years ago in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. It features maze-like

AncientPages.com – A few months ago, a sarcophagus at an olive grove, belonging to the Late Antiquity period, was discovered in Turkey’s western Bursa province. Archeologists have studied of the sarcophagus and dated it to the second century AD. Made out