Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Using modern scanning technology, scientists have located a long, mysterious, never-before-seen tunnel in the Khufu Pyramid in Egypt. Named after its builder, a Fourth Dynasty pharaoh who reigned from 2509 to 2483 B.C.  they Pyramid

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – While visiting the Tel Lachish National Park in south-central Israel, a hiker and his friend found a 2,500-year-old pottery shard, known as an ostracon inscribed with some letters. The potsherd discovered in Tel Lachish with

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A study by an international and interdisciplinary team headed by University of Freiburg archaeologist Dr. Ralph Araque Gonzalez from the Faculty of Humanities has proven that steel tools were already in use in Europe around

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Easter Island’s large and impressive stone-carved statues have long intrigued scientists and the public in general. Many have long wondered how the ancient people who inhabited this tiny remote volcanic island in Polynesia built such

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Scientists who study the origins and evolution of the plague have examined hundreds of ancient human teeth from Denmark, seeking to address longstanding questions about its arrival, persistence and spread within Scandinavia. In the first

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Two Scottish researchers are trying to piece together part of Scotland’s religious past by combining hi-tech science with historical knowledge. A combination of scientific and historical research is shedding light on the physical and chemical properties of

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – How could a 3300-year-old story be commemorated and published millennia before televisions, radios, or posts were invented? The Egyptian Pharaoh Seti I provides a concise guide. The large stele in the picture depicts King Seti

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com –More than 100 years ago, Charles Doolittle Walcott from the Smithsonian Institution was asked to examine strange star-shaped fossils with lobes hailing from the ~ 514-million-year-old Conasauga Formation in Alabama. Walcott described these odd fossils

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Britain’s oldest shoe has been found on a beach in Kent. The shoe, made of leather, is 3,000 years old and was discovered by archaeologist Steve Tomlinson. When Tomlinson found the shoe, he did not

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The saying “there is nothing new under the Sun” seems appropriate when we learn that sanitary hardware was invented long ago. Scientists have unearthed fragments of a 2,400-year-old flush toilet and a bent flush pipe

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The pre-Hispanic Wari culture Wari flourished from about 500 A.D. to 1000 A.D., in the region of Ayacucho region and stretched over Cusco’s rainforest in Peru. The Wari people spoke their own language and produced

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – In their search for silver ore, the Romans established two military camps in the Bad Ems area near Koblenz in the 1st century AD. This is the result of research carried out as part of a

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A fascinating quest to discover the identity of a prolific early-20th-century Indigenous painter has led a Griffith directed research team to the top and bottom of Australia—and to Paris—and has finally given the artist recognition