Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Although this 1700 years old luxury villa was excavated and examined both in 1856 and in the 1990s, it still has secrets to reveal. New secrets have now been revealed by an international research team,

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The site of Tell Deir ‘Alla (“mound of the high monastery”), in the central Jordan Valley, was a settlement during the 13th century BC and functioned as a town, according to Professor Emeritus Zeidan Kafafi,

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Maritime archaeologists from Bournemouth University have uncovered the remains of a medieval ship and its cargo dating back to the 13th century off the coast of Dorset. The survival of the vessel is extremely rare

Conny Waters –  AncientPages.com – Archaeologists excavating at Tavsanli Höyük, a mound recognized as the oldest known settlement in Kütahya, Turkey dating back 8,000 years, have unearthed a unique 3300-year-old seal and a dagger. The mound, often referred to as

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The ancient North American city of Cahokia had as its focal point a feature now known as Monks Mound, a giant earthwork surrounded on its north, south, east and west by large rectangular open areas.

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Examination of a fossilized skull of a hunter-gatherer who lived about 100,000 years ago in Morroco shows the individual suffered from vertigo and hearing loss. “Almost 50 years since parts of his skeleton were found

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists have unearthed a puzzling small figurine made in the image of an unknown individual. Researchers speculate people worshiped the small statuette as a water deity almost 2,800 to 2,500 years ago. At least the

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The sunken city of Heracleion off the shores of Alexandria, Egypt, was once part of the kingdom of Cleopatra. In recent years, underwater archaeologists have come across many stunning submerged ancient statues, artifacts, and shipwrecks

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – In the debate about the social structure of the Central European Early Iron Age, the “Herrenhof” plays a considerable role as the presumed seat of a high-status farmer. A rectangular farmstead of this type is

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – An extended period of turmoil in the prehistoric Maya city of Mayapan, in the Yucatan region of Mexico, was marked by population declines, political rivalries and civil conflict. Between 1441 and 1461 CE the strife

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists excavating in Abusir near Saqqara, Egypt, have unearthed a unique tomb belonging to a military officer who commanded battalions made up of foreign soldiers, according to a statement from the Egyptian antiquities ministry. The

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The 15th-century French composer and singer Josquin des Prez, or “Josquin,” as he is commonly known, achieved the Renaissance equivalent of rock star status. Despite his fame, many details of Josquin’s life and career are

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists have unearthed an 8,000-year-old Yarmukian ‘Mother Goddess’ figurine at Sha’ar HaGolan in Israel. The 20-centimeter figurine was discovered broken in two pieces next to the wall of a home, said excavation co-director Anna Eirikh-Rose,