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Ancient Pages.com – A rich collection of silver jewellery from the IX-XIII century period, discovered during dig in Czermno in the Lublin province near the Ukrainian border, was presented at a closed show in the library of Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin, Poland. Today’s
AncientPages.com – Impressive statues of ancient Mesopotamian rulers in the Louvre and the British Museum are famous. They bear witness to the wealth of Bronze Age Akkadian and Sumerian city-states more than four thousand years ago. However, they are made of
AncientPages.com – A 2000-year-old room plastered with frescoes was accidentally discovered during routine roadworks to install a gas pipeline under a busy street in central Rome, Italy. The find was made in the middle of November, when workmen started to dig a
AncientPages.com – Thousands of years ago lived a woman in the Egyptian city of Asyut, on the west side of the Nile River Valley, 375 miles south of the Mediterranean city of Alexandria. Her true name is unknown, but today some
AncientPages.com – Researchers say that humans have been eating these beans for many millennia. The world’s oldest domesticated fava beans have been discovered in sites in the central-southern Levant, now the Galilee area of northern Israel. The most ancient beans were carbon
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – The sarcophagus of Ankh-f-n-khonsu, a high priest of the ancient Egyptian god Amun Ra, has been unearthed in the west bank of Luxor, Antiquities Minister Mamdouh al Damaty announced Thursday. The sarcophagus, which dates back
AncientPages.com – London has been a multicultural city since its earliest days as a Roman city, according to new cutting-edge DNA research just published by the Museum of London. Scientists examined four skeletons, looking at sex chromosomes, evidence for disease, travel and diet, and bioarchaeological evidence for
AncientPages.com – Archaeologists say they have made a ground-breaking discovery on the Isle of Anglesey, North Wales. Experts have found what appears to be a small Roman fort on land near Cemlyn Bay and close to the Wylfa power station. The ‘fortlet’ is
AncientPages.com – Archaeologists allow public to see important phase of conservation work on remarkable Le Catillon II Hoard. Peeling back the top five centimetres of a pile of buried in a field 2,000 years ago, archaeologists in Jersey are preparing to
AncientPages.com – Glastonbury Abbey in Somerset holds a special place in popular culture. It was renowned in the early middle ages as the reputed burial place of the legendary King Arthur and the site of the earliest Church in Britain, thought
AncientPages.com – Egyptian authorities announces the three-day operation that involves the use of non-invasive radar to search behind the walls of Tutankhamun’s burial chamber. Exploration work will start Thursday to test a theory that Egyptian Queen Nefertiti is buried behind a wall
AncientPages.com – Archaeologists from the University of Warsaw using aerial photographs and geophysical surveys, confirmed the location of settlement dating back more than two thousand years in Respublikaniec (Kherson Oblast), and discovered previously unknown structures in its area. Excavations are conducted
AncientPages.com – Horns represent the primal power of nature, express the unstoppable power and the majesty and throughout human history, horns have been synonymous with this strength. Horned animal deities played a significant role in the early civilizations of the ancient world, where the
AncientPages.com – After 10 years of excavations, Israeli archaeologists have finally solved “one of Jerusalem’s greatest archaeological mysteries” — identifying the location of the Acra, an infamous fortress used by ancient Greece to control the Jewish Temple and Jerusalem more than 2,000 years
AncientPages.com – Archaeologists find Ice Age engravings, tools and burnt bone within “very rare” British settlement at Jersey. Archaeologists say hunter-gatherers from the Magdalenian culture of between 16,000 and 13,000 years ago lived at a clifftop site in Jersey where dense
AncientPages.com – The Citadel of Machaerus – a fortified hilltop palace – was built upon a conical peak of basalt, located in Jordan fifteen miles (24 km) southeast of the mouth of the Jordan river on the eastern side of the
