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 – Two remarkable ancient toys have been discovered in a child’s grave in Siberia. The Bronze Age artifacts from the Okunev culture, a southern Siberian ethnic group are believed to be some of the world’s oldest toys ever found. The
AncientPagers.com – A well-preserved and rare 1,900-year-old mirror has been found at the Nakashima archaeological site on the southern island of Kyushu, reports The Asahi Shimbun. It was unearthed at a depth of some 2 meters beneath a former village site,
AncientPages.com – Unraveling the secret of the quipu is by no means easy, but one student has successfully decoded an ancient Inca message. The Inca had no written language. To communicate they invented the quipu, a form of non-verbal communication written
AncientPages.com – A golden necklace – considered to be the oldest golden jewel in the Caucasus – was unearthed during excavations in one of the most ancient parts of Azerbaijan, Nakhchivan. The artifact was found in an ancient settlement situated in
AncientPages.com – The first-known example of a painted stone painted depicting a human face, has been discovered by Japanese archaeologists. The artifact is dated to the Jomon Pottery (8000 BC – 300B C) and was buried beneath the ground where a
AncientPages.com – Archaeologists excavating at a site in the town of Beit Shemesh, Israel have unearthed extraordinary ancient mosaics, precious crucifixes, beautiful jewelry and a long-lost church that was once part of a whole monastery complex. On June 13, 313 AD,
AncientPages.com – Hidden in the vaults of Saint Catherine’s famed monastery, located in southern Sinai, there are thousands of sacred ancient manuscripts. Some of these works are the oldest in Christianity. As Ancient Pages previously reported during the inauguration ceremony, Egypt
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Most agree today that Christopher Columbus was not the first person to discover America. Who exactly discovered America and when is still a subject of debate. It’s almost embarrassing, but Columbus was actually one of the
AncientPages.com – More than 300 small rocks – dubbed by archaeologists as ‘sun stones’ – carved in the Stone Age, were recently excavated in Vasagård in southern Bornholm, Denmark. Why did Stone Age people carve images of the sun, fields, and spider
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – In 1587, Urbano Monte (1544-1613), a little-known cartographer, created an amazing, hand-drawn, 10 feet by 10 feet map. Not only does the map depict the Earth as seen from space when directly looking down at
AncientPages.com – A decorative fitting from a book, originally from Ireland, has been unearthed during the expansion of Byneset Cemetery, nearby to the medieval Steine Church, built in the 1140s in Trondheim in mid-Norway. The find is probably a gold-plated, silver
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – More than 1,000 ancient sealings related to the Graeco-Roman pantheon have been discovered in a late antique building complex, which could be an unidentified church. The discovery was made by archaeologists from the Cluster of Excellence
AncientPages.com – Sometimes just one artifact is enough to change our understanding of history. This is exactly what has taken place when a student metal detectorist in UK literally struck gold discovering an object that forces us to reconsider certain historical events.
AncientPages.com – Our ancestors were familiar with meteoric iron much earlier than previously thought. Scientists have determined ancient civilizations constructed remarkable artifacts made of iron from meteorites thousands of years ago. There are iron artifacts dating back to the Bronze Age,
AncientPages.com – This beautiful 2,000-year-old vase is a true masterpiece of Iberian art. Discovered in Valencia, Spain in 134, the Iberian warrior still refuses to give up some of its ancient secrets. The vase depicts a battle scene. There are six
AncientPages.com – Biblical scholars have discovered the first known original Greek copy of a heretical Christian writing describing Jesus’ secret teachings to his brother James and include information about the First Apocalypse. Jesus reveals information about the heavenly realm and future
