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Excavations at Urartu fortress to unearth mysteries of ancient temple in Van,Turkey

Excavations At Urartu Fortress Will Shed Light On Mysteries Of Ancient Temple

AncientPages.com | July 31, 2019

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Excavations at the ancient Urartu fortress in eastern Turkey's Van province will help to solve the mysteries of a 2,700-year-old temple. For the

Archaeology

Almost 3,000 Year-Old Burial Site Of Urartian Royals Discovered In Turkey’s Famous Van

AncientPages.com | July 31, 2019

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com -The lost kingdom of Urartu is shrouded in mystery and still very little is known about this ancient place and the origin of its

Mysteries Of Ancient Magnetic Potbelly Statues In Mesoamerica Revealed – But Something Is Still Wrong

Archaeology

Mystery Of Ancient Magnetic Potbelly Statues In Mesoamerica Revealed – But Something Is Still Wrong

AncientPages.com | July 30, 2019

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers have long tried to explain purpose of Mesoamerican potbelly statues. Are they depictions of the ruling elite? Perhaps they were made to honor

Granite columns and a Greek temple were found during recent dives and studies in the ancient sunken harbour city Heracleion, off Egypt 's north coast. Image credit: Ministry of Antiquities

Archaeology

New Discoveries In Underwater Excavations Of Sunken Cities Of Canopus and Heracleion

AncientPages.com | July 29, 2019

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Ahram Online reports that underwater archaeologists discovered more secrets of the sunken cities of Heracleion and Canopus in Abu Qir Bay, in Alexandria. Archaeologists

Ancient Roman Joke Discovered Inscribed On A 2,000-Year-Old Pen

Archaeology

Ancient Roman Joke Inscribed On A 2,000-Year-Old Pen – Discovered

AncientPages.com | July 29, 2019

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Ancient Romans had humor, no doubt about it. While vising London about 2,000 years ago they brought back a pen as a gift.

The finds also include inscribed clay tablets and unrolled seals. In this way the LMU archaeologists learn a lot about the lives of the residents of the house, such as what the landlord and mistress of the house were called and that they also taught reading and writing in their house. Credit: A. Otto/LMU; Berthold Einwag

Archaeology

Old Babylonian Residential Building In Ur Dated To 1835 BC – Investigated

AncientPages.com | July 24, 2019

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Ur is one of the world’s oldest cities. What was life like for its inhabitants some 4000 years ago? During this year's season

Photogrammetric model of the ship's stern. Credit: Deep Sea Productions/MMT

Archaeology

Still Intact Renaissance Shipwreck Discovered On The Baltic Seabed

AncientPages.com | July 24, 2019

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An international team of scientists report a discovery of the remains of an intact and astonishingly preserved Early Modern Period (Late 15th –

Beware Of The Night Marchers – Deadly Ghosts Of Warriors Who Kill With Just One Look

AncientPages.com | July 23, 2019

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - When darkness falls, they rise from burial places and the ocean. They start to march in large groups, and they move until just

The fragment above an artist’s impression of how the fish bottle would have looked. Photograph: National Trust/Rod Kirkpatrick/F Stop Press

Archaeology

Rare 1,800-Year-Old Fragment From Fish-Shaped Roman Bottle Unearthed In Gloucestershire

AncientPages.com | July 23, 2019

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A fragment from 1,800 year-old glass fish at the National Trust’s Chedworth Roman Villa in Gloucestershire, has been discovered by archaeology student Peter

A new mosaic was found in Alexandria by Polish archaeologists

Archaeology

Beautiful Mosaic Dated To Graeco-Roman Times Discovered In Alexandria, Egypt

AncientPages.com | July 22, 2019

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The ancient urban complex of Kom el-Dikka has been excavated by Poland’s Centre for Mediterranean Archaeology (CAS since 1960. Polish archaeologists work in

Archaeology

Oldest Footprints In Europe Belonged To A Mysterious 950,000-Year-Old Ancestor

AncientPages.com | July 22, 2019

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - It’s the second time we encounter footprints in Europe of unknown beings who walked along the beach at Happisburgh, Norfolk, United. Kingdom. The

The gilded coffin of Tutankhamun is at the Grand Egyptian Museum for restoration for the first time ever. The coffin was transported from his tomb in Luxor

Archaeology

King Tutankhamun’s Large Golden Coffin Was Moved For Restoration

AncientPages.com | July 18, 2019

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Large coffin of King Tutankhamun is now under restoration for first time since 1922. Almost a century after its discovery, the largest gilded coffin

Archaeology

Portus: History Of Ancient Roman Hub Of Commerce – Reconstructed With New Methods

AncientPages.com | July 17, 2019

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An international team of researchers for the first time applied marine geology techniques at an ancient harbor archaeological site to uncover ancient harbor

Aerial view of the huge settlement from the Neolithic Period that was discovered in the archaeological excavations. Copyright: Eyal Marco, Israel Antiquities Authority

Archaeology

9,000-Year-Old Settlement Unearthed Near Jerusalem Sheds New Light On Stone Age Civilization

AncientPages.com | July 17, 2019

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A huge prehistoric settlement was discovered on the banks of the Sorek stream, is located 5 km (three miles) west of Jerusalem, according

The 3rd century inscription, in Ancient Greek with the names of 44 members of the Dionysus religious society

Archaeology

Third-Century Inscription Related To Dionysus Cult – Discovered

AncientPages.com | July 16, 2019

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Sofia Globe reports that archaeologists working at the Episcopal Basilica site in Bulgaria’s second city Plovdiv have found a large stone slab,

Archaeology

Aboriginal Australians Were World’s First Astronomers Who Discovered Variable Stars – Astrophysicist Says

AncientPages.com | July 16, 2019

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Ancient civilizations have always been interested in watching the skies. Solar observatories were built world-wide and astronomy played an important role is humans’

The 40-meter-long looting tunnel from the time of Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent inside the 3rd century AD Roman – Thracian tower tomb was wide and tall enough to fit hinnies and mules used for extracting the demolished construction materials. Photos: Photo: Plovdiv Museum of Archaeology/Plamen Kurtev via Plovdiv Time

Archaeology

Huge 40-Meter Long 16th Century Tunnel For Looting Was Exposed Inside Tower Tomb

AncientPages.com | July 15, 2019

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeology in Bulgaria reports that a huge 40-meter (130-foot) long tunnel for looting that fit large draft animals to pass through, was unearthed by a

Archaeology

Egypt Opens Two Ancient Pyramids And Unveils Newly Found Sarcophagi And Mummies

AncientPages.com | July 15, 2019

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A collection of newly found sarcophagi, some containing well-preserved mummies have been unveiled when Egypt opened two ancient pyramids located south of the capital

Archaeology

Subterranean Structure In Medieval Naryn-Kala Citadel: Was It The Christian Temple?

AncientPages.com | July 12, 2019

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Using non-invasively muon radiography, nuclear physicists in Russia may have just detected one of the oldest Christian churches in the world. This hidden subterranean structure

Mysterious 210,000-Year-Old Apidima Skull May Have Re-Written Human History

Archaeology

Mysterious 210,000-Year-Old Apidima Skull Could Re-Write Human History

AncientPages.com | July 11, 2019

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - When and where did the first human appear? For years, archaeologists and scientists have tried to answer this troublesome question and new discoveries

Airavatesvara Temple, a Hindu temple of Dravidian architecture located in the town of Darasuram, near Kumbakonam in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It was built by Rajaraja Chola II in the 12th century CE.

Archaeology

Evidence Of Sangam Age Settlement Unearthed At Nangur, Tamil Nadu

AncientPages.com | July 11, 2019

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating in the area of Nangur village in Nagapattinam district, located in southern India, found evidence indicating the existence of human settlement

Archaeology

Lagina Sanctuary Of Goddess Hekate: Archaeologists Found Ceremonial ‘Sacred Road’

AncientPages.com | July 10, 2019

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The so-called "Sacred Road" has been unearthed between two ancient cities Stratonikeia and Lagina, in what is today western Turkey’s Aegean Mugla province. Both

Archaeology

Thousands Of Roman Coins Found Across Europe Are Fake – Archaeologists Say

AncientPages.com | July 9, 2019

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Thousands of coins dating back to the Roman era could be the work of First Century counterfeiters, researchers say. Archaeologists suspect, that up

Arabic silver coins discovered in an old German cemetery near the Baltic coast.

Archaeology

Treasure Trove Of Arabic Coins Dated Back 1,000 Years Unearthed In Graveyard In Poland

AncientPages.com | July 9, 2019

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The First News reports that about seventy Arab coins have been discovered on the graveyard near the town of Kamień Pomorskie in the

Archaeology

Maize-Based Diet Of Ancient Maya, Vulnerability To Drought And Collapse Of Society

AncientPages.com | July 8, 2019

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers analyzed the role of diet in the ability of the ancient Maya to withstand periods of severe climatic stress. An increase in the

UNESCO Declares Ancient City Of Babylon A World Heritage Site

Archaeology

Ancient City Of Babylon Finally Declared A World Heritage Site By UNESCO

AncientPages.com | July 8, 2019

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – What many people think should have happened long ago, has now happened, but it's better late than never. The ancient city of Babylon

The skeleton of a horse found in one of the graves. Photo: Arkeologerna Statens historiska museer

Archaeology

Two Rare Full-Sized Viking Burial Ships Uncovered In Sweden

AncientPages.com | July 5, 2019

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Two full-sized Viking burial ships have been discovered in the Swedish municipality of Uppsala, located in the central part of the country. According

Ancient tombs in China have revealed what may be some of the oldest known human skulls to be intentionally reshaped.

Archaeology

Elongated Skulls: Did Intentional And Intriguing Ancient Tradition Originate In China?

AncientPages.com | July 5, 2019

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A new study reports that ancient people in east Asia, were reshaping their skulls as early as 12,000 years ago. The so-called elongated

Mystery Of The Philistines - Biblical Goliath People - New Clues Shed Light On An Ancient Enigma

Archaeology

Mysterious Philistines: They Migrated Across Mediterranean – DNA Testing Shows

AncientPages.com | July 4, 2019

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Philistines - known for their biblical conflict with the Israelites - were an ancient people who were lived in south cost of

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