Archaeology Archive

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Ancient Egyptians believed that a person's soul had many parts. One of these parts was called the ka, and the Egyptian symbol was sometimes

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists were surprised when they unearthed 8,500-year-old-teeth that appeared to have been intentionally drilled to be worn as beads in a necklace or

AncientPages.com - A grave on Lena River sand bank ‘proves site north of Yakutsk city is not historic original Cossack settlement’ in coldest region. An exceptionally well-preserved mummified

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – In a region regularly visited by the Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians, Hittites, Assyrians, Romans, Seljuks, and Ottomans, among others, archaeologists have unearthed remarkable structures

Jan Bartek -  AncientPages.com - Almost everyone is familiar with the Biblical story of how Noah managed to survive the Great Flood. The story of an ancient catastrophe

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A number of fragments of royal colossi and a huge mud-brick wall from the New Kingdom have been unearthed at Heliopolis Temple in Matariya,

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com  -   Three wooden coffins have been uncovered in the courtyard of Padiaménopé tomb (TT 33), by an archaeological team led by from the Institut

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com  - Science in Poland reports that the remains of twelve iron smelting furnaces used by the Celts 2,400 years ago have been discovered in

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com  - A medieval ring from the late 9th to mid 10th century, discovered in the stronghold (a medieval ring-fort) in Grzybowo near Gniezno, a

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Inbreeding and population/demographic shifts could have led to Neanderthal extinction, researchers say. Neanderthal extinction could have occurred without environmental pressure or competition with

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com  - How and when modern humans originated and spread throughout the world is still in draft form. Last year, scientists announced that a human

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Hurriyet Daily News reports that an ancient city, about 1.5 kilometers in diameter, was discovered four to 10 meters below the ground in

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A high-resolution georadar has detected traces of a ship burial and a settlement that probably dates to the Viking Period at Edøy in

AncientPages.com - The sensational discovery was made three months ago in the Altai Mountains by the team of archeologists from Novosibirsk Institute of Archeology and Ethnography. The precious

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com - Mount Sinai, also known as Mount Moses, is a sacred site to Jews, Christians, and Muslims. In the Bible, it is written that