AncientPages.com – King Ferdinand of Aragon’s secret coded letters have puzzled historians for centuries. King Ferdinand and his commander Gonzalo de Córdoba used a mysterious coding system consisting of more than 200 different characters to communicate. Now, after 500 years 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 has a long history in the Middle and Near East. The earliest

AncientPages.com – Nefertiti is today remembered as an Egyptian queen renowned for her beauty. She ruled alongside her husband, Pharaoh Akhenaten, during the mid-1300s B.C. In a historic forensic reconstruction project, Travel Channel is revealing the face of King Tut’s mother

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 Wellfleet, just outside the coast off Cape Cod, USA. It is believed

AncientPages.com – Neanderthals had large brains and made complex tools. Previous studies have showed Neanderthals were much more advanced than we previously thought, but they lacked drawing ability. Neanderthals could mentally visualize previously seen animals from working memory, but they were

AncientPages.com – DNA studies reveal that people in Britain had blue eyes and dark skin 10,000 years ago. Who were the first people to arrive in Britain and where did they come from? This groundbreaking DNA tests may shed some light

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 turning point in ancient Egyptian history. This was period of time when

AncientPages.com – Researchers at the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) at the Pontifical University of Mexico investigate a spiral formation of human skeletal remains discovered in an ancient burial pit. This Pre-Aztec burial place is located at Tlalpan borough in

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 Pestis. It first entered the country at Melcombe Regis, what is now Weymouth,

AncientPages.com – Three rock-hewn burial shafts filled with coffins and faience pots have been uncovered in Egypt’s Abusir necropolis near Cairo, reports Ahram Online. The discovery was made after authorities received reports of illegal excavations in the area and the Supreme Council

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 tools were used by human ancestors between 385,000 to 172,000 years ago,