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AncientPages.com – Recent discovery of surgical instruments and burial chambers unearthed during excavations in the ancient city of Philadelphia in the Central Anatolia, Turkey indicates that the ancient city was the health center of the Taşeli region. The excavations at the site
AncientPages.com – Working now in the lab conditions, scientists have opened the 2,000-year-old coffin thought to belong to Liu He, the Marquis of Haihun. The remains of the “Marquis of Haihun” were found in a coffin from a 2,000-year-old tomb that
AncientPages.com – Prehistoric pits, two Neolithic monuments and an Anglo-Saxon cemetery of 150 graves containing spears, knives, jewellery and bone combs have been discovered at an army site where anti-tank weaponry was tested during World War Two. One burial at Bulford
AncientPages.com – Well-preserved human skeletons estimated to be about 4,500-years-old have been unearthed from a graveyard in southwest China’s Sichuan Province, according to the archaeological team working in the area. The graveyard was discovered on the site of a prehistoric city
AncientPages.com – A 400-meter stretch of unbroken castle wall–the largest intact example of such stone masonry from the feudal era –has been discovered during excavations at Okazaki Castle, the birthplace of the founder of the Tokugawa Shogunate (1543-1616), one of the most influential
AncientPages.com – A fragment of the Late Antiquity fortress wall of the Ancient Roman city of Sexaginta Prista (meaning “Port of the Sixty Ships”) has been discovered in the Danube city of Ruse in Northeast Bulgaria. The fortress wall that dates back
AncientPages.com – Archaeologists have been working to solve the mystery of five-ton lion sculptures recently found in a field in Sorgun, a town located in the Central Anatolia, Turkey. A preliminary investigation has been made in the area and it shows
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – Sir Leonard Woolley found the gold helmet of King Meskalamdug (Mes-Kalam-Dug ) (1880 – 1960), a British archaeologist best known for excavating Ur in Mesopotamia. Meskalamdug (Mes-Kalam-Dug) (“hero of the good land”) was an early
AncientPages.com – Relics of an ancient six-thousand-year old village in the Sarvabad county in Kurdestan Province have been unearthed by Iranian archaeologists. The ancient village was unearthed in the Sarcham archeological site in the vicinity of Rowar Village, Excavation Head of the
AncientPages.com – For many years, scientists have debated the age of some of Europe’s oldest cave art. Many questions have remained without answers, among them, perhaps one probably the most important: Were the stunning images of cave lions, horses, and bulls
AncientPages.com – A new William Shakespeare First Folio, part of the original collection of 36 plays published in 1623, has been discovered on Isle of Bute, Scotland. Emma Smith, professor of Shakespeare Studies at Oxford University, authenticated the First Folio as genuine,
AncientPages.com – Archaeologists from the Regional Museum of History in the city of Veliko Tarnovo in Northern Bulgaria are hoping to restart the archaeological excavations of a surviving 14-meter ancient Roman Obelisk near Lesicheri, located in North-Central region of Bulgaria, according
AncientPages.com – An ancient tomb dating back to the late Eastern Han Dynasty (AD 25-220), nearly 2,000 years ago, has been found in South China’s Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, according to local authorities. Han Dynasty (206 BC-220 CE) was one of
AncientPages.com – Silver adornments, which were most probably buried in the fall of 1688 during the so called Chiprovtsi Uprising, the largest rebellion of Bulgarian Catholics against the Ottoman Empire, have been unearthed near the city of Montana (then known as Kutlovitsa)
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists may have discovered the second Viking site ever found in North America. It’s a truly significant historical find that offers tantalizing evidence of a Viking presence 300 miles from the only place in Canada they’d
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – About 80 years ago, a mysterious bog body of an unknown man was discovered in Sweden. The corpse was labeled the Bocksten Man. The man met a brutal death. He had three stakes driven through
