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Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Israeli archaeologists have unearthed a table-like structure, dating back about 4,000 years in the Galilee Hills, Israel. A huge Bronze Age dolmen is inscribed with unique mysterious art and according to Uri Berger, an archaeologist
AncientPages.com – Archaeologists have discovered16 engraved limestone blocks, created 38,000 years ago, during an expedition in France’s Vézère Valley, Vézère Valley was used as a shelter by the Aurignacian people who are considered Europe’s earliest human culture. The discovery gives evidence
AncientPages.com – A team of international archaeologists has just begun exploring a mysterious ancient staircase in the Phnom Kulen in Siem Reap province, near the Angkor World Heritage Site in northwestern Cambodia. Phnom Kulen (its name means “mountain of the lychees”) is
AncientPages.com – Excavation of the royal tombs of the Marquis of Haihun State of China’s Western Han Dynasty (206 BC-8 AD) revealed many relics and among them, there is the earliest portrait of Chinese philosopher Confucius, found in a tomb that
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The catastrophic Minoan eruption – one of the largest volcanic outbreaks in recorded history of mankind and known as the ‘Thera eruption’ – took place around 1650 BC. It buried the major port city of
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Two amateur treasure hunters have discovered remarkable gold artifacts decorated with ancient Celtic art. It is an incredible discovery because examination revealed the precious artifacts are the earliest example of Iron Age gold ever found in
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A shipwreck sunk 2,600 years ago, off the coast of Gela in southern Sicily and the story of this ship is still fascinating today. The ship – dated to the first half of the sixth
AncientPages.com – New discoveries made by archaeologists in Timna Valley, Israel shed light on complexity of Iron Age copper production. Recent excavations At Timna revealed the astonishing well-preserved of 3,000-year-old remains of advanced military fortification and a gatehouse complex including donkey
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Everyone living outside of Africa today has a small amount of Neanderthal in them. The last Neanderthal died 40,000 years ago, but much of their genome lives and contribute to certain traits in modern humans.
AncientPages.com – Working in the area of the ruins of the Tomb of the Prophet Jonah, destroyed by Isil, archaeologists made a surprising discovery of a previously undiscovered and untouched 600 B.C palace, reports the Telegraph. The Nebi Yunus shrine is
AncientPages.com – A sanctuary dedicated to the god Mithra, the Indo-Iranian deity Mithra, has been just unearthed at a Roman site of Mariana, created around 100 BC and located on the Island of Corsica. A team of archaeologists led by Philippe
AncientPages.com – It was long believed that Egyptian temple culture was declining in the Ptolemaic era, after the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC. Egyptologist Carina van den Hoven who studied the ritual scenes depicted on the walls of
AncientPages.com – Archaeologists have found a carefully carved toy in form of a wooden boat with a raised prow like a proud Viking ship, and a hole in the middle where a mast could have been stepped. The artifact was
AncientPages.com – Two fat woman figurines unearthed in the 9,000-year-old Neolithic settlement of Çatalhöyük represent elderly women, not the Anatolian mother goddess Cybele as was earlier believed. “These figurines symbolize old women that have high status in the society instead of
AncientPages.com – The 2,700-year-old ceramic sculpture of a Cypriot goddess was discovered off the coast of the Bozburun, in the western province of Muğla’s Marmaris, Turkey. The sculpture is probably the biggest one in the history of Turkish underwater history. Researchers
AncientPages.com – Two inscription of great historical importance have been found in the Western Galilee town of Peqi’in in Israel. The 1,800-year-old inscriptions were found in in the courtyard of an ancient synagogue. Archaeologists and historians find the text highly significant because
