Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Mendik Tepe, with its earliest Neolithic layers, is located in the rural Payamli area of Eyyubiye, Sanliurfa Province, and was discovered by Fatma Sahin, the excavation director of Cakmaktepe, where excavation efforts at Çakmaktepe began in

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – At the archaeological site of Huaca Yolanda, situated 500 miles north of Lima, the capital of Peru, researchers have unearthed a three-dimensional multicolored mural believed to be between 3,000 and 4,000 years old. The polychrome mural

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A team of researchers has uncovered the history of Hunacti, a 16th-century mission town featuring stone streets and a Spanish-style church. However, behind its appearance lies another story of this small town. It’s a story

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Egyptian archaeologists have discovered a sunken city off the coast of Egypt and are now recovering its 2,000-year-old remnants from the seabed of Abu Qir Bay, near Alexandria. Divers and cranes helped to recover massive relics

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – There are many secrets surrounding Stonehenge that remain to be uncovered. A compelling study from the 2010s revealed that Stonehenge’s standing bluestones were quarried approximately 140 miles away from the iconic monument, at two distinct sites

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – For more than a year, archaeologists have been conducting excavations at a multi-hectare site in Holzwickede, which is planned to become part of the Eco Port Süd business park near Dortmund Airport. Aerial photograph of the

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Researchers from the University of Oxford have recently resolved a long-standing archaeological mystery by re-examining the molecular composition of a curious orange residue found in bronze jars unearthed from a 6th-century BCE underground Greek shrine

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Scents played a pivotal role in shaping identity, memory culture, and intercultural exchanges during the Iron Age Mediterranean. Carthage, Rue Ibn Chabâat (Dido Quarter): Levantine-imported oil bottle with a black-painted Phoenician inscription, reportedly including the

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A team of archaeologists has discovered the remains of a large Roman mausoleum dedicated to an important figure in the Roman Empire. However, the identification of this person has yet to be determined, researchers say. The

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Recent research conducted by archaeologists from Tulane University has uncovered that the ancient Maya civilization supported a significantly larger population than previously estimated, with up to 16 million people inhabiting areas of modern-day Guatemala, southern

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The transition to agriculture in Europe involved a period of coexistence between hunter-gatherers and the early farmers from Anatolia. New findings indicate a gradual increase in local population mixing as these early farmers progressed towards Central

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The rise of Sumer was driven by the dynamic interplay of rivers, tides, and sediments at the head of the Persian Gulf, according to new research that challenges long-held theories about the origin of urban