Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A 2,700-year-old Urartian castle will be soon an open-air museum. During the last three decades, archaeologists in Eastern Anatolia have been working hard with the excavations and restoring of the ruins and carvings of the
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Ramses II (1304 B.C – 1214 B.C), the third Pharaoh of the Nineteenth dynasty was a powerful ruler who achieved much, but he had plenty of enemies. On the list of those who wanted him
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Found in the 1950s by workmen digging pipe trenches in Chapel Yard, Yarm, near the River Tees, in the UK, this ancient helmet seems rather unexciting at first sight, but don’t let it looks fool
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – There are not many Viking ship burials in Sweden, or anywhere else for that matter. Viking ship burials are rare finds and whenever archaeologists discover one, they are always excited. Last year, two full-sized Viking
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A man, living in the Central Anatolian province of Çorum, has been engraving symbols and figures unique to the Hittites on stones, with the help of knives and saws he collects from the ancient city
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Now, a new analysis of ancient genomes by a team of researchers – Melissa Hubisz and Amy Williams of Cornell University and Adam Siepel of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory – suggests that different branches of
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – During the Renaissance great painters like Da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, Donatello, and many others produced extraordinary art. Their famous and beautiful paintings are as fascinating as their personality. These artists lived during one of the
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A team of Iranian archaeologists has found further evidence to unearth the enigmatic Laodicea Temple in the city of Nahavand, west-central Hamedan province. “The fifth season of excavation for possibly unearthing the Laodicea Temple from
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeological excavations in the Perdigões complex, in the Évora district, have identified “a unique structure in the Prehistory of the Iberian Peninsula”. It is a “ceremonial construction”, a type of structure only known in Central
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The recovery of distinctive fluted points from both America and Arabia provides one of the best examples of ‘independent invention’ across continents. Researchers from the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), The Ohio State
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The discovery of the temple and a number of relics took place in Nauni village of Jagner block, 70 km from Agra city, in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. An 11th-century Pratihara-era temple was accidentally discovered by
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Greek archaeologists examined an ancient Egyptian mummy (AIG. 3343) and found that ancient Egyptians used dental filling. The study suggests that the filling was practiced as a sort of therapy and not as part of
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Researchers from (National Institute of Anthropology and History ) INAH confirm for the first time, the use of cinnabar, a mercury sulfide, applied directly to the mural painting of the Quetzalpapálotl Complex. Researchers detected use
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – No matter which language you use, it is certain the history of your language goes far back in time. Historians think the first language emerged approximately between 200,000 years ago and 60,000 years ago, but
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Vikings were masters of the oceans. They traveled far and reached new lands because their longships were fast and could sail in shallow water. Vikings’ fearless dragonships were the greatest technical and artistic achievement of
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Amorium was a Byzantine city in western Asia Minor (today, modern Anatolia). It was one of Byzantine’s largest and most prestigious cities. Seven great civilizations – Hittite, Phrygian, Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Seljuk, and Ottoman –
