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Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Dinas Powys, Glamorgan, located about 9km southwest of Cardiff, is a small inland fort of approximately 0.35ha. The hillfort was first excavated by a team of archaeologists led by Leslie Alcock from 1954 through to
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The tomb of Neferhotep, a renowned scribe of Amun from the 18th Dynasty, during the reign of Pharaoh Ay (1327-1323 BC), was finally unveiled after over twenty years of painstaking restoration work. Credit: Supreme Council
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – During a pioneering aerial survey of the Near East in the 1920s, the Jesuit French priest Father Antoine Poidebard undertook one of the world’s first aerial archaeological surveys. A sample of Poidebard’s (Reference Poidebard1934) aerial photographs:
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Pukaras (in Quechua and Aymara: ‘fortress’) are naturally impregnable settlements or strategic sites from 1000–1450 AD. They were defensive fortifications (or even fortified villages) built by the central Andean people from present-day Ecuador to the Chilean
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The first analysis of the Early Neolithic stone burial chamber unearthed in Tiarp, near Falköping in Sweden, is now completed. Archaeologists say the Tiarp Dolmen is one of the oldest stone burial chambers in Sweden
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – Most tourists admire Terracina as a seaside resort. Unfortunately, they do not even imagine the ancient town’s historical past and archaeological heritage left by the long-gone generations. In ancient times, Terracina was the city called ‘Tarracina,’
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Something strange and unexplained happened on the Træna islands in Nordland county, Norway. Why was the entire local community wiped out? One would suspect war and violence led to the death of those people, but
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – In folklore, the famous 34-meter-long crevice cave known as Pirunkirkko, or Devil’s Church in English, was known as a place where local sages would meet to contact the spirit world. The national park of Koli
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Historians and archaeologists have, over centuries, explored the mysteries behind the Great Sphinx of Giza: What did it originally look like? What was it designed to represent? What was its original name? But less attention
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – The ancient city of Susa (modern-day Shush, Khuzestan Province, Iran) remains one of the world’s oldest cities. It has been continuously inhabited since about 4200 BC (or even 5000 BC). It is one of the
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A project mapping medieval England’s known murder cases has now added Oxford and York to its street plan of London’s 14th-century slayings, and found that Oxford’s student population was by far the most lethally violent
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Scientists have created an impressive 3D reconstruction of Principia, the legionary fortress in Novae (Bulgaria). By restoring inscribed monuments from the site in the 3D model, the research team has uncovered how the Roman army
