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AncientPages.com – Huge jars (in Greek, called ‘pithoi’) were large storage containers, widely used among the civilizations that inhabited the regions of the Mediterranean Sea in the Neolithic, the Bronze Age and the succeeding Iron Age. One such very large jar
AncientPages.com – A 2,700-year-old clay seal impression which they said belonged to a biblical governor of Jerusalem has been uncovered by Israeli archaeologists. The Israel Antiquities Authority says this unique and important lump of clay, stamped and pre-fired, was discovered in
AncientPages.com – What secret messages and information could have been written thousands of years ago on scraps of ancient Egyptian papyrus? Hieroglyphics found on the walls of the tombs of the Pharaohs show how the rich and powerful wanted to be
AncientPages.com – Two remarkable ancient toys have been discovered in a child’s grave in Siberia. The Bronze Age artifacts from the Okunev culture, a southern Siberian ethnic group are believed to be some of the world’s oldest toys ever found. The
AncientPages.com – Researchers say that approximately 70 percent of the 5,000-year-old ancient city of Perga, located in southern Antalya, Turkey has not been uncovered yet. Ancient city of Perge was one of the centers of the Kommagene civilization and one day,
AncientPages.com – Impressive ancient walls belonging to a fortress located on Egypt’s Canal of the Pharaohs, in Tell el-Maskhuta, has been unearthed by a team of Italian archaeologists working for the National Research Council (CNR). The place of this discovery is
AncientPagers.com – A well-preserved and rare 1,900-year-old mirror has been found at the Nakashima archaeological site on the southern island of Kyushu, reports The Asahi Shimbun. It was unearthed at a depth of some 2 meters beneath a former village site,
AncientPages.com – A medieval grave with a skeleton with an arrow in the chest has been discovered by archaeologists of the Plovdiv Museum of Archaeology, Bulgaria. The findings, dated to about 11th/12th century AD, during excavations at the ancient site of the
AncientPages.com – Polish archaeologists have renewed excavations of a unique 5,000-year-old megalithic tomb with the remains of more than 20 persons, located at Kierzków (Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship), in north-central Poland. The monumental tomb was built by the so-called globular amphora culture that existed
AncientPages.com – Unraveling the secret of the quipu is by no means easy, but one student has successfully decoded an ancient Inca message. The Inca had no written language. To communicate they invented the quipu, a form of non-verbal communication written
AncientPages.com – A secret tunnel has been discovered in the Suomela Monastery, one of the most important historical buildings located on Melá Mountain within the Pontic Mountains in the Trabzon Province in northeast modern-day Turkey. The monastery is located 1200 meters above
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Scientists think fossilized trees in Antarctica’s Transantarctic Mountains may offer evidence of the Great Flood. The fossilized trees in Antarctica, discovered by a team of scientists led by Erik Gulbranson, a paleoecologist at the University of
AncientPages.com – The pursuit of immortality was very popular among the most powerful Chinese emperors. China’s first emperor, Ying Zheng was one of those who pursued the mysterious elixir of immortality. Ying Zheng declared himself Qin Shihuang or the first emperor of
A.Sutherland – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists have initiated new surveys to examine sections of the ancient structure known as the Great Wall of Gorgan, located in northern Iran. Constructed between 420 CE and 530 CE, the Great Wall of Gorgan served as
AncientPages.com – A golden necklace – considered to be the oldest golden jewel in the Caucasus – was unearthed during excavations in one of the most ancient parts of Azerbaijan, Nakhchivan. The artifact was found in an ancient settlement situated in
AncientPages.com – The first-known example of a painted stone painted depicting a human face, has been discovered by Japanese archaeologists. The artifact is dated to the Jomon Pottery (8000 BC – 300B C) and was buried beneath the ground where a
