Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – For the first time, now, archaeologists have been able to resume restoration and excavation works at the site of the Monastery of St. Simon Stylites the Younger. The site is vast but unfortunately, the monastery
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeological excavations carried out in the 3,000-year-old ancient city of Stratonikeia, have revealed 10 more masks decorating the stone blocks that are believed to date back 2,200 years. Works in the ancient city, located in
Jan Bartek- AncientPages.com – On the morning of August 24, 79 A.D. Mount Vesuvius in southern Italy erupted. It was one of the largest volcanic explosions in recorded history. In a surviving document left by only some surviving witnesses, the
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists unearthed two ancient statues of deities in the ancient city of Kibyra in Turkey’s southwestern Burdur province. Kibyra,(or Cibyra Magna), was the main city of the Cibyratis region whose core was formed in the
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – When you’re an archaeologist you may have to wait a long time before you find something of historical value. Norwegian archaeologists had been excavating for weeks without discovering anything but post holes and cooking pits.
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A 1,500-year-old holy well of the Early Christian monastery on the St. Ivan Island was discovered at a depth of almost 5 meters by a team of archaeologists led by Prof. Kazimir Popkonstantinov, an expert
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Unfortunately, there is not enough money for the restoration and conservation of one of the most valuable ancient archaeological sites known as the mounds of Tepe Ozbaki (Ozbaki Tappeh), a key Chalcolithic site situated in
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Cambridge University Library has announced that two notebooks written by Charles Darwin, worth many millions of pounds are missing, believed to have been stolen. Both of these notebooks contain his pioneering ideas on evolution
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Leonardo Da Vinci (1452 – 1519) was one of the greatest minds of the Renaissance. His inventions, paintings, and sculptures are today admired by millions, but by now it’s well-known he had many secrets he
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – This remarkable painting comes from the second century when Egypt was a Roman province, hence the portraits are more lifelike and less hieroglyphic-like than Egyptian art of previous eras. Known as “Portrait of a Bearded
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – In medieval times, it was very expensive to make parchments, so leaves were regularly scraped or erased and re-used over and over again. In the process, many valuable writings were lost. Now, students from Rochester
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Fear, frustration, anger, and sadness are just some of the many emotions we can experience during a pandemic outbreak. How a person handles a pandemic is a psychological question but many of us feel helpless
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Scientists have discovered the oldest known human-made nanomaterials in the “unique black coatings” of ancient pottery shards — dated to 600 BC — unearthed from an archeological site in Keeladi, Tamil Nadu. These are “the
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A Hindu temple, believed to have been constructed 1,300 years ago, has been discovered by Pakistani and Italian archaeological experts at a mountain in northwest Pakistan’s Swat district. The discovery was made during an excavation
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A bizarre prehistoric clay mask or a figurine, lacking a mouth but featuring human and animal traits, has been discovered during the latest archaeological excavations of the Provadiya – Solnitsata (“The Salt Pit”) Settlement Mound
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Scientists have studied five drought periods over an 800-year period during which Ancestral Puebloans had to fight for their survival, and they succeeded. For more than 10,000 years, the people who lived on the arid
