Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The collection of more than 25,000 fragments of ancient manuscripts known as the Dead Sea Scrolls include, among other ancient texts, the oldest copies of books of the Hebrew Bible. But finding a way to
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Analysis of the material on two Iron Age altars discovered at the entrance to the “holy of holies” of a shrine at Tel Arad in the Beer-sheba Valley, Israel reveals Biblical people used cannabis and
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The Canaanites are mentioned in Biblical texts, but the origin of the term is disputed. In Genesis they are described as descendants of Canaan, a son of Ham and grandson of Noah. It is said
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Scientists have discovered an ancient giant skeleton and huge snake bones. It’s an extraordinary discovery, and if it’s genuine it offers evidence giants roamed the Earth in the past and. It also confirms the ancient
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – It all started in 2008 when archaeologists excavated a fascinating ancient archaeological site Guachimontones (‘Los Guachimontones’) is located just outside the modest little town of Teuchitlán, Jalisco, 43 kilometers (26 miles) west of Guadalajara, Mexico.
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A tomb decorated with frescos dating back about 1,000 years ago, was accidentally discovered by a group of farmers in north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Farmers discover Ancient tomb decorated with frescoes discovered in
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A large number of artifacts discovered in rescue excavations of a Thracian burial mound include an ostrich egg turned into a vessel and a gold-plated silver fibula featuring the Thracian Horseman deity. The ostrich egg
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A secret tunnel was accidentally discovered during construction works at the Østerport light rail station in Copenhagen. According to archaeologists from the Museum of Copenhagen the wooden remnants, located six meters beneath Østbanegade, are part of a secret escape tunnel dating
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Because of its ability to capture extraordinarily accurate, high-resolution, 3D data LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) has become an appreciated tool among archaeologists. LIDAR has been used to find lost ancient cities, pyramids in the
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – People living in the southern areas of today’s Poland over 4,000 years ago were genetically similar to earlier communities from this area. Researchers from the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań have now analyzed the DNA
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Many have claimed the Justinianic Plague (c. 541-750 CE) killed half of the population of the Roman Empire. Now, historical research and mathematical modeling challenge the death rate and severity of this first plague pandemic.
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Ancient people continued their centuries-long tradition of socializing and feasts, even after an unknown crisis around A.D. 650. More than a thousand years ago, people from across the Southeast regularly traveled to a small island
AncientPages.com – Columbus famously reached the Americas in 1492. Other Europeans had made the journey before, but the century from then until 1609 marks the creation of the modern globalized world. This period brought extraordinary riches to Europe, and genocide and disease
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Five centuries after Charles I of Spain authorized the transport of the first African slaves to the Viceroyalty of New Spain, the ancestry of the hundreds of thousands of abducted and enslaved people forms an
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Remains of an Avar warrior and a belt set that can be dated to the turn of the 7th to the 8th century, have been accidentally unearthed at the city cemetery in Vinkovci, a city
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Istrian archaeologists have excavated an ancient wooden boat dating back two thousand years from under the Poreč waterfront, located on the western coast of the Istrian peninsula, in Istria County, Croatia. The ancient wooden boat was
