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AncientPages.com – It couldn’t have been a case of better timing. Egyptologists celebrating the centenary of the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun now have a promising new archaeological discovery that appears to have been made in Egypt. Excavators have
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – Norway’s stave churches were built on remarkable technology that contributed to their uniqueness. The structures are impressive and highly unique examples of medieval architecture. This technology was remarkable and required knowledge of geometry and the
AncientPages.com – Imagine that you have an unhealthy interest in your neighbors’ lives. Unable to ask them directly, you rifle through their rubbish bins. You find the bones of cooked chickens and try and work out what else they eat.
AncientPages.com – When you imagine life for ordinary people in ancient Britain, you’d be forgiven for picturing quaint villages where everyone looked and spoke the same way. But a recent study could change the way historians think about early medieval
AncientPages.com – In many popular accounts of human prehistory, civilization emerged in a linear fashion. Our ancestors started as Paleolithic hunter-gatherers living in small, nomadic and egalitarian bands. Later, they discovered farming and domesticated animals for food and service. Before
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – When the bell begins to toll, Lord, have mercy on the soul.’ – wrote The Venerable Bede (672-735). In days past, when good and evil were known to be two sides of the same coin,
AncientPages.com – It was a well-kept secret among historians during the late 19th and early 20th centuries that the practice of magic was widespread in the ancient Mediterranean. Historians wanted to keep the activity low-key because it did not support
AncientPages.com – During the autumn of 1660, colonists in and around Québec started to report some very strange occurrences. In the sky they saw a man enveloped in flame and a canoe of fire. In the air they heard lamentable
AncientPages.com – Scientific breakthroughs can happen in the strangest ways and places. Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin because of mold growing on a Petri dish left out while he was on holiday. Chinese monks in the 9th century wanted to make a potion
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – The Sarcophagus of the Amazons is a large Etruscan sarcophagus of an unknown artist, dated back to the third quarter of the 4th century BC, and preserved in the National Archaeological Museum of Florence. It is
AncientPages.com – When most people think about fairies, they perhaps picture the sparkling Tinker Bell from Peter Pan or the other heartwarming and cute fairies and fairy god mothers that populate many Disney movies and children’s cartoons. But these creatures
AncientPages.com – The Nobel prize in physiology or medicine for 2022 has been awarded to Svante Pääbo from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, “for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution.” Credit: Adobe
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – Many years ago, several statues depicting unusually looking people were discovered in a remote corner of the world. Some said the statues were raised by a no vanished race and made in the image of
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Pyramids are considered anonymous structures. Pharaohs built huge, well-constructed pyramids, tombs, and temples to glorify themselves and be forever remembered after death, but their bodies were never inside these structures. The Pyramid of Menkaure is the
AncientPages.com – Sixty six million years ago, sea monsters really existed. They were mosasaurs, huge marine lizards that lived at the same time as the last dinosaurs. Growing up to 12 meters long, mosasaurs looked like a Komodo dragon with
AncientPages.com – Sexuality was central to life in ancient Mesopotamia, an area of the Ancient Near East often described as the cradle of western civilisation roughly corresponding to modern-day Iraq, Kuwait, and parts of Syria, Iran and Turkey. It was not only
