AncientPages.com – A mysterious 300-year-old time capsule has been discovered during restoration works at the church of Santa Agueda in Sotillo de la Ribera, Burgos, northern Spain. The document was hidden inside a hollow wooden statue of Jesus Christ. Written with

AncientPages.com – Discovered back in 1947 near the ruins of Qumran – also known as Khirbet Qumran, the Dead Sea Scrolls still remain a great ancient puzzle. The scrolls contain a large variety of writings: fragments of every book of the

AncientPages.com – Archaeologists excavating in the Roman town of Interamna Lirenas, near Monte Cassino, in Italy have unearthed a rare 2,00-year-old sundial. It’s still intact and has a Latin inscription that can reveal information about the man who commissioned it. Lying face down,

AncientPages.com – An unfinished portrait of a woman believed to be Mary, Queen of Scots has been found hidden beneath another 16th-century portrait during a significant research project recently conducted at the National Galleries of Scotland (NGS) and The Courtauld Institute

AncientPages.com – Archaeologists have a made a sensational find that could re-write our ancient history. A huge cuneiform archive consisting of 93 ancient clay tablets was unearthed on in the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq. What the tablets record remains a

AncientPages.com – An astrolabe was not only a very a beautiful ancient object. It was also a sophisticated very old astronomical computer especially created for solving problems relating to time and the position of the Sun and stars in the sky.

Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Scientists are confronted with an intriguing Medieval puzzle. It’s the first time ever such sculptures have been found in India, but who made them and why? Image credit: Scfhu.ru While excavating in the Himalayas on the

AncientPages.com – Queen Ankhesenpepi II was the important Egyptian queen of the 6th Dynasty, Old Kingdom, around 2350 BC. A French-Swiss archaeological team reports have unearthed the head of a wooden statute of Queen Ankhesenpepi II near her pyramid in the

AncientPages.com – A beautiful and unique hoard of ancient Roman bronze artifacts has been discovered in Gloucestershire. The hoard includes a remarkable sculpture of a ‘licking’ dog, never found before in Britain – and archaeologists have a fascinating theory about its

AncientPages.com – A cache of religious objects, commonly known as ‘favissa’, is considered to be difficult to date and document. One of such intriguing collections was unearthed in 2014 and the place of this important discovery is the temple of Ptah

AncientPages.com – We are all familiar with the symbol “0”, but when and where zero first appeared is far from certain. There is evidence of counting that stretches back five millennia in Egypt, Mesopotamia and Persia. The concept of zero, initially banned

AncientPages.com – If you are interested in the power of magic, then a huge collection of ancient spells discovered in Germany may interest you. Some of these Abracadabra spells are up to 1,600-year-old. The topics vary from anything how to summon

AncientPages.com – Researchers are scratching their heads trying to decipher a set of mysterious carvings and script on a 1,700-year-old stone relic. Known as the Stela of Montoro, the artifact was discovered in a farmer’s field in Spain. Stela of Montora