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AncientPages.com – Two rare funerary busts rescued from the destruction of by Isis group are soon heading back to Syria. Recovered by Syrian troops, but badly damaged possibly by hammer blows, the artifacts have been painstakingly repaired in Italy. The busts
AncientPages.com – Archaeologists in Egypt are busy with restoration of a statue of the celebrated 19th dynasty pharaoh, Ramesses II. Colossus of Ramesses II (Ramsess II) once decorated the façade of the first pylon of the Karnak Temple Complex. The statue is
AncientPages.com – There are numerous Hindu temples dedicated to the Supreme Being, Lord Shiva, Hindu god known by many names and titles and one of the three main gods in the Hindu pantheon. Five temples were built to Shiva, who controls
AncientPages.com – Roughly 65 Byzantine-era tombs have been unearthed in the most recent archaeological excavations in Stratonikeia Ancient City, located in the western province of Muğla, in the Aegean region of Turkey. Archaeologists continue to excavate the ancient graveyard – an
AncientPages.com – Clash among scientists! There is currently a heated debate in the scientific community. Archaeologists maintain geneticists have totally misunderstood the Viking occupation in England. Geneticists, on the other hand say that archaeologists feel threatened by a new form of
AncientPages.com – The three-headed and six-armed Ashura statue is a national treasure and one of the best-known ancient Buddhist artworks in Japan. Made in 734 AD, the statue had survived several earthquakes, fires and wars through the centuries, but at the
AncientPagaes.com – Israeli and French team of archaeologists begin excavations of an ancient and unexplored Biblical site, where the famous Ark of the Covenant was kept for two decades, before King David relocated it in Jerusalem. This Judean site, called
AncientPages.com – More than 100 plant seeds dating back 2,000 years have been unearthed from an ancient tomb in northern China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The seeds, which are half-moon-shaped, were discovered gathered in the shape of a circle with a
AncientPages.com – Some several thousand years ago, there once flourished a great civilization in the Indus Valley. The largest of the four ancient civilizations of Egypt, Mesopotamia, India and China, Indus Civilization covered an area of what is today Pakistan and
AncientPages.com – For generations, Okinawans potters produced fascinating pottery, of which fragments are still being unearthed. A fragment of pottery, which is believed to have come from earthenware, was unearthed about six years ago in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. It features maze-like
AncientPages.com – A few months ago, a sarcophagus at an olive grove, belonging to the Late Antiquity period, was discovered in Turkey’s western Bursa province. Archeologists have studied of the sarcophagus and dated it to the second century AD. Made out
AncientPages.com – Some years ago, archaeologists uncovered beautifully preserved, 1,000-year-old Viking boat burial in Scottish Highlands. It is today known as the Ardnamurchan boat burial. Inside a 5m-long grave that contained the remains of a powerful, high-status Viking, who was buried
AncientPages.com – A large collection of boat coffin tombs dating back 2,200 years has been discovered by Chinese archeologists at a construction site in Feihu Village, Pujiang County in southwest China’s Sichuan Province. The discovery was made in September 2016 and
AncientPages.com – Nearly 40 graves of men, women and children buried at the ancient graveyard, at the Norre Sandegard Vest site, Danish island of Bornholm. The discovery was made by joint Polish-Danish excavation team working at the site since 2014. Male,
AncientPages.com – A historic warship from the 17th century has been discovered by marine archaeologists diving in Southern Sweden. The ship named Blekinge was similar in size to the legendary Vasa warship that sank on its maiden voyage in 1628, before
AncientPages.com – It’s a truly extraordinary discovery. Archaeologists are even slightly shocked. They have found traces of a 1,300-year-old Viking tower. It has long been believed Vikings never constructed towers, but this assumption was wrong. The purpose of the tower is
