Archaeology Archive

AncientPages.com - Who made these remarkable huge animal sculptures? What tools did our ancestors use? Could this be the work of an ancient lost Sahara civilization? Located at the

A.Sutherland  - AncientPages.com - A new study of Sumerian clay tablets has provided scientists with valuable information about medicine in Mesopotamia. As previously discussed on Ancient Pages, medicine

AncientPages.com - Legendary pirate Black Sam , sometimes nicknamed the 'Robin Hood of the Seas' was an English pirate who operated in the early 18th century. Researchers have discovered a shipwreck near

AncientPages.com - The mysterious sand mounds in and around Mapoon, in north-eastern Australia have long been a subject of controversy. Are these puzzling mounds natural formations or were they

AncientPages.com - During excavations of an ancient Egyptian city at Tell Edfu in southern Egypt, archaeologists from the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, unearthed well-preserved settlement remains dating to an important

AncientPages.com - The Black Death is one of the most devastating plagues in human history. The Black Death, started in the Gobi Desert as a minor disease known as Yersinia

AncientPages.com - Over 7,000 stone tools were unearthed in excavations at archaeological site at Attirampakkam, about 60 kilometers from Chennai in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The

AncientPages.com - Historical records state that the Viking Great Army wintered in Repton, Derbyshire, in 873 A.D. and drove the Mercian king into exile. Using radiocarbon dating scientists have

AncientPages.com - It would seem that all ancient myths about a great flood are true after all. About 12,800 years ago, the Earth emerged from another ice age. Things

AncientPages.com - The Whitechapel murders that terrorized London in 1888 are still remembered thanks to the legend of Jack the Ripper, who was never caught. The true identity of

AncientPages.com - Many skilled cryptographers have studied the Voynich Manuscript and many attempts have been made to crack the ancient code and they have failed. Now, computing scientists - Greg

AncientPages.com - A new species of dinosaur Mansourasaurus shahinae, found recently in the Sahara Desert of Egypt, will help to reconstruct the course of dinosaur evolution in Africa, researchers

AncientPages.com - One of the earliest examples of a ‘crayon’, which was probably used by our ancestors 10,000 years ago is an interesting discovery made by archaeologists from the

AncientPages.com - Up till now, the earliest modern human fossils found outside of Africa are dated to around 90,000 to 120,000 years ago at the Levantine sites of Skhul

AncientPages.com - Once again, it’s time to reconsider our understanding of Stone Age people who were much smarter than we think. In schools today, children learn that Stone people