Explore mysterious ancient civilizations and their legacy. We examine their buildings, artifacts, religion, rituals, scientific achievements, customs and traditions, inventions, government, geography, wars, cities, empires and much more.
What was it like to actually live in ancient Egypt as an ordinary person 3,500 years ago? This is an interesting video presented by BBC and Egyptologist Dr Joann Fletcher who makes this goes fascinating journey in search of people
Within the framework of the South Assassif Conservation Project on Luxor’s west bank, an Egyptian-American team stumbled upon a 26th dynasty tomb that belongs to the vizier of Upper Egypt, Badi-Bastet. Mahmoud Afifi, the head of the Ancient Egyptian Antiquities
During the first season of a three-year project at the site of Porta Nola, Pompeii, archaeologists report the first results. The study of the necropolis permits the study of the physical characteristics of the inhabitants of Pompeii, as well as
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – It is believed that the ruins of ancient cities lie beneath the sands of the Kalahari Desert and they must be very old. This time our journey takes us to South Africa where we look for
AncientPages.com – Aslantepe is one of the most excavated ancient sites in Central Anatolia, Turkey. Ancient throne made of adobe has been found during this year’s excavations at Aslantepe, an ancient Hittite site located in the eastern province of Malatya.
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – Cahuachi – once the capital of the Nazca culture and a major ceremonial center from the period 450 BC- 450 AD – is located 30 km (19 miles) western of Nazca City, Peru. The site
Sixty bodies were found on Sunday in a mass grave dating back to Roman times in a field in the Central Anatolian province of Kütahya by a farmer plowing the field with a mule. The remnants, which were discovered near
AncientPages.com – Ministry of Antiquities launches fundraising campaign to buy a 4,500-year-old statue sold last year in London, and stops archaeological cooperation with the Northampton Museum for selling it. Egypt’s antiquities minister Mamdouh Eldamaty launched on Saturday a fundraising campaign
A marble block, considered the “water law” from 1,900 years ago, has been unearthed in the ancient city of Laodicea in the western province of Denizli and shows that the use of water in the city was managed by law
Glass-making furnaces dating back to the Roman Egypt period (30B.C.-395A.D.,) have been unearthed in Egypt’s Delta archaeological site of Tell Mutubis, the Antiquities Ministry stated Friday. The discovery was made during a magnetic gradient survey carried out by a joint
AncientPages.com – Archaeologists identified three archaeological sites in Llagaden community, Magdalena, Cajamarca, Peru. They also found archaeological evidence in the form of pottery remains, which date back to 2,000 years ago. The pottery could be linked to ancient Pre-Incan Cajamarca
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Keezhadi, a small hamlet in Sivaganga district, in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu, is a special place, where an important part of Tamil history is being unearthed now by the Archaeological Survey of
A 3.2 wide, double-faced wall was revealed during the systematic excavation and extended clearance work in the framework of the five-year-old programme “Ancient Feneos”, conducted by the Ephorate of Antiquities of Corinth and the Austrian Archaeological Institute at Athens and completed
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
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
