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.
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 Kondrak and his graduate student Bradley Hauer – at the University of
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 hollow-bodied, small in size, sometimes larger, and always with their characteristic facial
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 University of York. The ochre crayon was discovered near an ancient lake,
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 writings: fragments of every book of the Old Testament (except the Book
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 the 8th or 9th century is the only such object known from
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 Relics and Archaeology Research Institute said on Monday. The bed was unearthed
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 periphery of Ile-Ife in southwestern Nigeria, archaeologists uncovered more than 12,000 glass
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. The artifact was found at the “wrong” place. It simply didn’t belong
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 Cheremshanka in Altai Republic, located at the Altai Mountains. Altai Mountains are
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Ancient Metroplis and its treasures has been brought to the light of day thanks to the continuous excavations in the ancient city of Metropolis in Torbali district, about 40 km southeast of İzmir, Turkey that
AncientPages.com – As many as 16 tiny but very interesting scraps of paper have been discovered during conservation work on artifacts recovered from the wreckage of ‘Queen Anne’s Revenge’ — the flagship of the famous pirate Blackbeard. The Salisbury Post writes that
AncientPages.com – An ancient wooden board game discovered in the 1,600-year-old tomb of a Germanic prince, is a unique archaeological treasure. According to experts the board game is a unique artifact that has no parallel in Slovakia and Europe as well.
AncientPages.com – The Canterbury Roll is a magnificent and unique ancient manuscript that traces the history of England from its mythical origins until the Wars of the Roses. A section of the Canterbury Roll. University of Canterbury Being in the
AncientPages.com – Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed remains of mud-brick walls and several artefacts, probably dated to different periods of the ancient Egyptian era. Additionally, four furnaces (664-332 BC) have been revealed, during excavation work carried out in Tel Al-Pharaeen archeological site
AncientPages.com – Huge jars (in Greek, called ‘pithoi’) were large storage containers, widely used among the civilizations that inhabited the regions of the Mediterranean Sea in the Neolithic, the Bronze Age and the succeeding Iron Age. One such very large jar
AncientPages.com – A 2,700-year-old clay seal impression which they said belonged to a biblical governor of Jerusalem has been uncovered by Israeli archaeologists. The Israel Antiquities Authority says this unique and important lump of clay, stamped and pre-fired, was discovered in
