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AncientPages.com - On September 20, 1066, the Battle of Fulford, near York, Yorkshire (then capital of Northumbria) was fought. Saxon troops of Mercia and Northumbria commanded by brothers

Mexico has restored a series of colorful 2,500-year-old cave paintings with help from the American archaeologist who first registered them almost 50 years ago. Paintings are concentrated in

AncientPages.com - An ancient aqueduct system, which is estimated to belong to the historical castle of the city, has been uncovered in Borujerd in Lorestan Province during construction

AncientPages.com - Enormous and impressive structure of Derawar Fort is located at the edge of the Cholistan desert. It's a famed hallmark of Bahawalpur, the eleventh largest city

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Many fascinating archaeological findings have been reported by Polish archaeologists excavating at Old Dongola, the capital of a lost medieval kingdom that flourished

Thieving monks and cathedral tombs: Rediscovered cast skull of "father of English history" could solve medieval burial mystery. Cast skull discovery could answer questions about missing Venerable Bede's

We travel to the eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea Anatolia called Asia Minor, present-day Turkey. Today there are only ruins of that what once was the capital

Maya activity more than 2,000 years ago not only contributed to the decline of their environment but continues to influence today's environmental conditions, researchers at The University of

AncientPages.com - Archeologists working in Turkey’s eastern province of Van have uncovered 2,800-year-old pithos, or large ceramic storage containers, that once contained grain, oil and wine in the

Cacao and holly beverages, which were both high in caffeine - were really valued by the people in the eighth century, living in what is now the Southwestern

AncientPages.com - The ‘Standard of Ur’ is a Sumerian artifact excavated from what had been the Royal Cemetery in the ancient city of Ur (located in modern-day Iraq

Stone monoliths found buried near Stonehenge could have been part of the largest neolithic monument built in Britain, archaeologists believe. The 4,500-year-old stones, some measuring 15ft (4.5m) in

One of the most important and beautiful sarcophagus has been improperly removed from the ground, the Israel Antiquities Authority said. A unique and extremely impressive stone sarcophagus, about

An international team of researchers has sequenced the first complete genome of an Iberian farmer. It is also the first ancient genome from the Mediterranean. This new genome

A few decades ago, five wax tablets from the Second Century were found by Albanian archeologist Fatos Tartari who excavated the ancient necropolis of Dyrrhachium or Epidamnos (today