Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – LIDAR has once again demonstrated its advantage when locating hidden ancient sites in the jungle. Light Detection and Ranging technology is indispensable to archaeologists who can rely on lasers to penetrate overlying vegetation and cover

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Scientists participating in the National Grid’s Viking Link project report new fascinating discoveries! The Viking Link’s construction will enable the countries to share enough green energy to power up to 1.4 million UK homes. National

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – While conducting salvage works of Section 7 of the Mayan Train, a team of archaeologists from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) unearthed a funerary urn representing the god of corn. Funerary urn depicting

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – During archaeological excavations in Tenea, an ancient Greek town near Corinth, built by Trojan prisoners of war, scientists unearthed a wonderful treasure and intriguing ancient ruins. Credit: Ministry of Culture The excavations at the site, located

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Rock-hewn Ptolemaic and Roman tombs with intriguing golden masks, mummies, coffins, and terracotta statues have been unearthed in the historic city of Al Bahnasa in the Minya governorate, Egypt. Credit: Supreme Council of Antiquities Al-Bahnasa is

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A vast fortification, which is one of the longest known going back 4,000 years was just discovered by a team of scientists from the CNRS1 and the Royal Commission for AlUla (RCU). Location map of

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists were baffled, to say the least, when they discovered an ancient Roman necropolis containing 67 dressed skeletons buried in 57 ornate tombs. Unearthing ancient Roman tombs is not remarkable, but this particular find is

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Scientists have unearthed an ancient Roman temple that adds significant insights into the social change from pagan gods to Christianity within the Roman Empire. The discovery was made by Douglas Boin, Ph.D., a professor of

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists have discovered a peculiar stone disk while investigating an ancient hill fort in Rupinpiccolo, northeastern Italy. The 50 cm in diameter and 30 cm thick stone disk features 29 curious human-made engravings. Archaeologist Federico

Conny Waters –  AncientPages.com – Researchers at Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany have carried out the first comprehensive analysis of some 20 mummy fragments from collections in the University’s archives and have presented their findings in Annals of the History and

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists are investigating a rather peculiar Medieval cemetery located in a field not far from Fonmon Castle in Wales, UK. The fortified Medieval castle was built by Oliver St John of Fonmon, one of the

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A centuries-old mystery may finally have been solved. Cerne Abbas Giant, the 180ft (55-meter) tall club-wielding man in Dorset, UK, has long been considered a fertility sign due to his large, erect phallus. The Cerne

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – In eastern Mongolia, a 405 km long previously unexplored wall system has been largely overlooked in existing academic discourse. Named the “Mongolian Arc,” the structure consists of an earthen wall, a trench, and 34 structures.

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – On 12 September 1901, Denis Peyrony, a local schoolmaster, stepped inside the Font-De-Gaume Cave. He discovered marvelous prehistoric cave paintings that our ancient ancestors created during the Magdalenian period. Cro-Magnon artists painting in Font-de-Gaume, by