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Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Experts have uncovered information concealed for two centuries in a navigational chart created for 18th-century seafarers navigating the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. The beautiful paper scroll demonstrates that seafaring communities in the region
Jan Bartek – Ancientpages.com – Archaeologists excavating at Søften, Denmark, have discovered an extensive production site that may have supplied Viking Age Aarhus with textiles and craft goods. Background: Drone shot of the excavation. Credit: Moesgaard Image compilation, AncientPages.com Søften
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A recent ancient DNA study suggests that Scythian elites may have passed down political power through family lines spanning several burial sites. By bringing together archaeology, anthropology, and genetics, this research sheds new light on how social
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The ancient Peruvian city of Peñico was once a thriving trade hub and home to one of the oldest civilizations in the Americas. Located 12 kilometers from the Sacred City of Caral-Supe in present-day Huaura
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – An Egyptian archaeological mission at the Marina El Alamein site in Egypt has uncovered 18 sealed ancient tombs, along with sarcophagi, surface burials, and artifacts. These findings provide new insights into the history and cultural significance
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Board games were central to Roman society and enjoyed by all social classes, from enslaved individuals to the Emperor. Many, such as Duodecim Scripta and Ala, resemble games still played today and are likely ancestors of
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists have made a remarkable find in southwestern Spain, where a 2,500-year-old bronze chariot adorned with mythological figures offers new insights into the lost civilization of Tartessos. The Tartessian culture flourished in the southwestern Iberian Peninsula
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists in Iraq’s Nineveh province have discovered a rare Assyrian stele dating to the reign of King Ashurbanipal. This discovery gives us new insight into the city’s achievements almost 2,600 years ago. Archaeologists in Nineveh
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Machrie Moor, nestled on the Isle of Arran, continues to reveal its ancient mysteries. Machrie Moor is an area of peat moorland with a striking concentration of Neolithic and Bronze Age archaeological remains (from 3500 BC
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – New research reveals that a major prehistoric center in Ireland was among the earliest large, organized settlements in Western Europe, dating back over 3,000 years. Around 1200 BC, the construction of the monumental Haughey’s Fort
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Tollan-Xicocotitlan, or Tula, was once the capital of the Toltec civilization. It sits in Tula de Allende, in the Tula Valley of southwest Hidalgo, northwest of Mexico City. Tula reached its height between 900 and
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A rare Anglo-Saxon die stamp found near Lynsted, Kent, may alter our understanding of the origins of some of Britain’s most significant archaeological treasures. The small copper-alloy object, discovered by metal detectorist Stephen Newbury, dates
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Researchers from the University of Warsaw and the University of Tirana have discovered a large Hellenistic temple in an ancient city in northern Albania. This is the first Illyrian structure of its kind found in the
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A centuries-old shipwreck discovered off the south coast of England, containing 400 gold coins, has been identified as the Dutch trading ship “Dom van Keulen,” which departed Morocco for the Netherlands in autumn 1633. Credit:
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Excavations in Nijmegen-West have revealed extensive remains of a Roman bathhouse, the largest of its kind in the Netherlands. Stephan Mols, a researcher from Radboud University, regularly visits the site. These discoveries indicate that the
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Many ancient Maya cities are still hidden in the jungle, waiting to be discovered. One of these, called Minanbé—which means “there is no path” in Yucatec Maya—was recently found by a team of Mexican and
