Jan Bartek – Ancient Pages.com – Jade was held sacred by many ancient civilizations. The green stone has been found in many ancient tombs and placed there as a valuable burial item. In the religious beliefs of Mesoamerican people, jade

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A system of ancient ceramic water pipes, the oldest ever unearthed in China, shows that neolithic people were capable of complex engineering feats without the need for a centralized state authority, finds a new study

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com –  A large Anglo-Saxon burial has been unearthed at Bicker Fen, Lincolnshire, UK. The discovery was part of Viking Link’s construction. A project team worked with archaeology experts who carried out a number of detailed surveys

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The Zapotec civilization was by no means primitive. On the contrary, when investigating archaeological sites in the Valley of Oaxaca in Mesoamerica, scientists found evidence the history of the Zapotec civilization goes back at least

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Scientists knew it was a race against time, but their struggle to find the ancient structure was not in vain. A long-lost Roman bridge has been re-discovered in the muddy banks of the River Wye

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com –  Ancient pyramids have been found on all continents, and the test ancient structures’ purpose varies depending on the civilizations that constructed them. It cannot be denied that there are still aspects associated with pyramids the

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Earlier this year, a massive and horrifying earthquake struck southern and central Turkey and northern and western Syria. Almost 60,000 people died in the deadliest earthquake in present-day Turkey since the 526 Antioch earthquake and

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – In February 2022, the journal Scientific Reports published a paper with the claim that a comet exploded over what is now Cincinnati around 1,500 years ago, raining fire over the area and destroying villages and

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Around 150 so-called circular enclosures are known from  the Central and Eastern European Middle Neolithic (first half of the 5th millennium BCE). Only a few of them have been extensively and systematically archaeologically examined. Aerial view

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Many ancient cultures used so-called ‘magical mirrors’ to ward off evil forces. The belief in the power of the Evil Eye goes thousands of years back in time. As previously discussed on Ancient Pages, the

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A new DNA study has nuanced the picture of how different groups intermingled during the European Stone Age and how certain groups of people were actually isolated. The study was carried out by researchers at

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A Roman road network that spanned Devon and Cornwall and connected significant settlements with military forts across the two counties as well as wider Britannia has been discovered for the first time. Archaeologists at the

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Coal miners have discovered remnants of a Roman ship in Serbia. The find occurred when mining works were carried out in the Drmno open-pit mine (north-eastern Serbia), located near the Danube. Scientists are doing their

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Evidence of the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 AD is currently being exposed in the City of David, Jerusalem Walls National Park. Some 2,000 years after the destruction of the Second Temple and