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The 2015 archaeological expedition at the Prastio-Mesorotsos site has been completed, revealing it was seasonally occupied from Prehistoric to Historic periods and was probably a place for cooking meat for a large crowd. The Department of Antiquities, Ministry of Communications
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
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
Polish conservators have just ended the first season of restoration of the oldest villa in the ancient town of Stabiae. The city of Stabiae, next to Pompeii and Herculaneum, is one of the cities that were completely destroyed during the
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – Apparently not all prehistoric massive stone boxes were used to keep human remains. Many of them were found in rooms with very small entrances. It is a mystery how the unknown stone builders managed to
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
Ongoing excavations at a site in the southern Peloponnese are offering rare insight into the ancient past of Laconia, about which very little physical evidence exists, the state-run Athens-Macedonian News Agency cited the Culture Ministry as saying on Tuesday. Covering
AncientPages.com – At one time, the 7,000-year-old Misis (Mopsuestia), located in the southern province of Adana,was known as the immortal city and had up to 100,000 inhabitants; now has a population of just a few thousand and it is not
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. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – Nalanda was one of the most praised intellectual circles of the ancient world. It was an active center of education located about 88 km southeast of Patna in Bihar, northeastern India, and not far from
A large wooden chamber tomb has been brought to light by archaeologists during excavations near the Opatowska Gate in Sandomierz, Poland. Around the tomb archaeologists discovered pottery sherds and traces of fire, evidence of funeral rituals, as Dr. Marek Florek from the
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
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
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
