Ancient Artifacts
Thousands of intriguing ancient artifacts have been discovered world-wide. Some of these ancient artifacts give us a deeper understanding of our ancestors’ customs, traditions, beliefs, level of technology and scientific achievements. Many of the artifacts are also mysterious and puzzling because we haven’t yet been able to determine their true purpose.
Artifacts Archive
Ancient Mysteries
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Their religion was banned, and their monasteries were closed. Their precious ancient manuscripts were destroyed and those who practiced the forbidden religion faced death
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Several mysterious scrolls and artifacts have been found inside a 700-year-old Buddha statue, in the ancient Japanese capital of Nara. It’s an astonishing discovery and researchers report
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Ancient Mysteries
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Our journey through North America and quest for ancient lost civilizations continues. This time, we visit Cincinnati, where we encounter several remarkable artifacts and
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Scientists continue to examine the interesting Dead Sea Scrolls that were discovered in West Jordan in 1947, near the ruins of Qumran. Infrared imaging has revealed a
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Pulled from a peat bog in in the Ural Mountains, Russia back in 1890, the Shigir Idol is believed to be twice as old as Stonehenge and
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Artifacts
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - An extraordinary Viking treasure connected to King Harald Bluetooth has been found on the island of Rügen in the Baltic Sea in northern Germany.
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Artifacts
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Stele of Ankh-ef-en-Khonsu is an ancient Egyptian artifact that is also known as the "Stele of Revealing". Made of wood and covered with a
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating in Dublin have discovered 11th-century Viking village with graffiti and unique artifacts. According to researchers, the discovery is an “extraordinary find”. As previously mentioned on
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Artifacts
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Are the incisions discovered on the puzzling McClelland Sherd only decorative symbols, an early Bronze Age writing or perhaps the oldest alphabetic writing
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Artifacts
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Over the years, archaeologists have discovered many precious Viking Age artifacts, such as unique Viking jewelry, weapons, ritual objects, pieces of clothes, and even ships. Gjermundbu
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating in Peru have found thousands of stone objects that could offer more information about the first people who inhabited Peru. Based on the preliminary examination
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Artifacts
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The Tuxtla statuette is a strange ancient artifact left by a culture we still know very little about. Who was this bullet-shaped being with
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - A set of five Ancient Roman mirror frames have been unearthed in the ruins of an intriguing Roman villa that belonged to a Roman military veteran, and is located
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Artifacts
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The history of ancient Egypt may sometimes seem very distant, but people living thousands of years ago had many problems and feelings that trouble
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - About 60 years ago, archaeologists excavating in Czermno, Poland discovered a unique spindle whorl. At the time scientists did not notice the object was covered with seemingly
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - A 132-year-old message in a bottle was discovered on a remote Australian beach, Wedge Island and turned out to be part of an important worldwide experiment, reports
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - A pot containing some 500 silver and gold coins was found during water works conducted near the city of Vianen, in the province of Utrecht, central Netherlands.
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - A rare, intact 700-year-old bronze ring bearing the image of St. Nicholas was accidentally discovered work in the garden of a home in the Jezreel Valley, Israel.
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Unfortunately, sometimes something must be destroyed so that another discovery can be brought to light. Seven clay tablets, found in a palace hidden under the Tomb of
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - While excavating south of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, Israel, archaeologists have discovered an ancient seal that could offer first solid proof of the Biblical prophet Isaiah.
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Artifacts
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Almost 200 years ago, seventeen concealed miniature coffins were discovered in a cave in Edinburgh's Arthur's Seat, Scotland. It's a curious find that, to
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - About 1,300 years ago, a teenage girl was buried on the outskirts of Cambridge, UK. She received a highly unusual 'bed burial,' and
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Finding ancient well-persevered clothes is not something that happens daily. This is why this particular 1,700-year-old tunic is so special. It is Norway’s
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Ancient Romans loved boxing. The sport kept their soldiers fit and it was good entertainment the public enjoyed watching. There are many boxing scenes depicted on Roman
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Precious ancient manuscript M.910 was originally recorded by Coptic monks in Egypt roughly 1,500 years ago. Today, the badly managed manuscript is kept at the Morgan Library
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Ancient Mysteries
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Thousands of ancient ceremonial pipes have been found in North America. What makes the spider pipes unearthed in Tennessee unusual is not only their
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Thousands of years ago, there was a mysterious European culture known as the Vinca culture. These people left a legacy in form of valuable artifacts covered with
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - It took months to write a book during the Middle Ages. Most medieval manuscripts, illuminated or not, were written on parchment. Paper wasn't available in Europe until
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Ancient Technology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Dutch archaeologists have studied two fascinating Ice Age finds found at the bottom of the North Sea. One of them is a rare
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Artifacts
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - One of the most important monuments of Irish Christianity and works of Irish-Saxon art is the famous Book of Kells (now in the
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Researchers at University of California, Davis have centered their study on how dice were made and changed over the last 2000 years. The dice accompanied people very
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Many skilled cryptographers have studied the Voynich Manuscript and many attempts have been made to crack the ancient code and they have failed. Now, computing scientists - Greg
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Ancient Mysteries
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Ancient ‘smiling faces’ are small figurines of reddish clay, associated with ancient cultures of Maya and Aztec. Usually these ceramic sculptures were solid or
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - One of the earliest examples of a ‘crayon’, which was probably used by our ancestors 10,000 years ago is an interesting discovery made by archaeologists from the
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Artifacts
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Battle of Anghiari is one of the legendary artworks of the Renaissance period. Painted in the early 16th century by Leonardo da Vinci, the
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - The Dead Sea Scrolls still remain a great ancient puzzle. Discovered back in 1947 near the ruins of Qumran, Israel. The scrolls contain a large variety of
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - A unique knife that belonged to an early medieval scribe has been discovered in the Pasym Castle located at Pasym, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, Poland. The knife dated to
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - A lacquered "dragon bed" that dates back t aboput 2,500 years has been now restored by archaeologists in southwest China after a 17-year effort, the Chengdu Cultural
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Artifacts
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The ancient Maya created many books, but almost all of them were burned by conquistadors and clergy. One of those who significantly contributed
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Ancient Technology
AncientPages.com - Scientists have found evidence people in Sahara were familiar with glass technology centuries before the arrival of Europeans. During excavations at Igbo Olokun, located on the northern
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Ancient Mysteries
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - When scientists examined a mysterious ancient jade artifact it quickly became clear that the object didn’t match anything that anyone knew about jadeite jade.
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Ancient musical instruments made of the splintered ribs of cows or horses and known as the Jew's harps were discovered at archaeological sites Chultukov Log 9 and
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