Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com –  A rare and well-preserved bone flute has been unearthed in Kent, UK. Scientists discovered the flute dating back to the 13th-15th Century while excavating at an archaeological site near Herne Bay. The Medieval musical instrument

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A new analysis of several Roman coins unearthed in 1713—long thought to be forgeries—suggests that they are authentic, providing evidence that the leader portrayed on one of the coins was indeed in power during the

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Submerged below the waves of the English Channel lies an important scientific record of undiscovered Neanderthal artifacts dating back to the last ice age. Collecting them from beneath the channel’s cold waters is no easy

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The well-preserved remains of an ancient winepress have been found near the Roman fort Apsaros (today’s Gonio near Batumi, Georgia). The Polish-Georgian team of archaeologists said that the installation almost certainly formed part of a

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Scientists report sonar images reveal an intriguing shipwreck resting at the bottom of Lake Mjøsa in Norway. Though this is Norway’s largest lake marine archaeologists say the lake is more like a miní-ocean or large

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com –  A rather incredible discovery occurred in Edinburgh, Scotland, where a woman found a 135-year-old message in a bottle under her floorboards. Everything started in October 1877 when two local workers left a note under the

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – On the 81st anniversary of the sinking of the Australian warship HMAS Sydney (II) and the disguised German raider HSK Kormoran following a battle off the coast of Western Australia during WWII, Curtin University has

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The world’s first urban state societies developed in Mesopotamia, modern-day Iraq, some 5,500 years ago. No other artifact type is more symbolic of this development than the so-called beveled rim bowl (BRB), the first mass

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – In the beliefs of ancient Greeks, there is a well-known myth of Hades, a shadowy place where the dead lived. The deceased entered Hades with the help of Charon, the ferryman and a psychopomp of Hades

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The results of the archaeological studies at the Acropolis of Falasarna in Crete, Greece, are complete. While excavating at the site, scientists have unraveled some exciting secrets of the ancient Temple of Dimitra and discovered

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Researchers of the University of Malaga (UMA) and the University of Jaen (UJA) have discovered Egypt’s oldest tomb oriented to the winter solstice. Located in the necropolis of Qubbet el-Hawa (Aswan), it is precisely oriented

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com –  An Egyptian team of archaeologists working for the Supreme Council of Antiquities has uncovered the remains of a colonnaded hall at the ancient Buto Temple, Kafr El-Sheikh,  in the northern Nile Delta. Ruins of the

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists excavating in Saqqara, Egypt, have discovered a pyramid dedicated to an unknown ancient Egyptian queen. Who was the mysterious Queen, and why is she unfamiliar to historians and Egyptologists? Could another ancient structure nearby

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Researchers from a Basque research institute, the Aranzadi Science Society,  say that they found the earliest document written in Basque language, which is considered as one of Europe’s most mysterious tongues. Image credit: Aranzadi Science Society