AncientPages.com – On February 29, 1576 – Antonio Neri , a Florentine priest, was born in Florence, Italy. Neri was a glass maker, who conducted experiments with colored glass and imitations of precious stones. His results were published in 1612 in
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A 5,000-year-old Anatolian sword was identified in a monastery on the island of San Lazzaro degli Armeni in the Lagoon City. A small sword – placed among several medieval items in a display cabinet – was
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Originally erected in 1158 to 1160, the magnificent Dormition Cathedral is currently undergoing restoration work. It’s not the first time the church has been reconstructed, but this time workers discovered beautiful, never before seen ancient
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – More than 8,000 tree-shrouded structures of varying sizes along the sacbe (white road) – with enough total volume to fill approximately 2,900 Olympic swimming pools – have been identified by researchers using lidar technology. Built
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Ancient Egypt never ceases to amaze the world. This time archaeologists report the discovery of a beautiful, rare ancient leopard painting found on a wooden lid of a sarcophagus in the Aswan necropolis. To ancient
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – History of the ancient city of Asyut goes back about 4,000 years ago. Thousands of tombs carved into the rock and dating back from the Ancient Kingdom to the Roman Era attest to the rich
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Neanderthal-Denisovan ancestors interbred with a distantly related hominin 700,000 years ago. For three years, anthropologist Alan Rogers, professor of anthropology at the University of Utah has attempted to solve an evolutionary puzzle. Ancient Human Populations.
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A lost ancient kingdom dating to 1400 B.C. to 600 B.C., which may have defeated Phrygia, the kingdom ruled by King Midas, was discovered by archaeologists from the Oriental Institute. King Midas was the most
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Nefertiti’s tomb has never been found, but there is now new hope scientists can finally locate the burial place of the lost ancient Egyptian queen. Using ground-penetrating radar (GPR), researchers have scanned the area around
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Hebrew University team unearths Canaanite temple at Lachish; find gold artifacts, cultic figurines, and oldest known etching of Hebrew letter ‘Samech’. “And the Lord delivered Lachish into the hand of Israel, which took it on
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Researchers have just unearthed the well-preserved upper body skeleton of an adult Neanderthal who lived about 70,000 years ago. The place of this fascinating discovery is Shanidar Cave in the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region of northern
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – This stunning silver Roman dagger decorated with ornate foliage patterns is an extraordinary artifact. It was found by a teenager and the 2,000 weapon is despite its age in very good condition. Nico Calman, 19, found
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The downfall of Cahokia, one of the most sophisticated civilizations in North America has been debated for a long time. During its peak, the Pre-Columbian metropolis, located in what is now southern Illinois was home
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The society that built the famous monuments on Easter Island did not collapse before Europeans arrived in the 1700s, as researchers have long believed. “The general thinking has been that the society that Europeans saw
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Scientists are investigating a new skeleton discovered in the underwater Chan Hol caves at Tulum, Mexico. Examination of a skull belonging to a woman who died at least 9,000 years ago reveals early American settlers
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – During the first excavation of the year 2020, archaeologists have unearthed 16 ancient Egyptian tombs containing 20 sarcophagi (some of them decorated with hieroglyphics), coffins and other artifacts from a vast burial ground. The coffins
