Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Ancient Assyrians were brilliant astronomers who studied the sky with great interest. Scientists have discovered evidence of unusual solar activity 2,700 years ago that has been documented on cuneiform tablets, one of the earliest writing
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – By studying antique artifacts researchers were able to reveal previously unknown use of yellow colors in ancient Egypt. It has long been known that ancient artifacts displayed far more colors than one would think when
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – At least 20 ancient wooden coffins have been discovered in the southern city of Luxor, Egypt, according to Egypt’s Antiquities Ministry, reports Yahoo. The coffins which are considered one of the “biggest and most important” discoveries
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A precious sandstone head of a Bodhisattva has been unearthed near Ta Nei, a late 12th century stone temple in Angkor, Cambodia. The Apsara National Authority technical team was attempting to find the temple’s roof
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Excavations that were carried out at the site of Pyla-Vigla on the southeastern coast of Cyprus, revealed the presence of a previously unknown early-Hellenistic fortification, reports In-Cyprus. Vigla is located on a steep plateau overlooking
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – In the 1950s, archaeologists found a mysterious ancient tablet in the ruins of the theatre in Caesarea Maritima, Israel, built by King Herod the Great around the year 22 B.C. The 1,500-year-old Greek tablet, known
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Egyptian archaeologists have discovered 30 workshops in the industrial area. At the site, there are houses for storage and the cleaning of the funerary furniture and many potteries dated to the 18th Dynasty. Artifacts are
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – There is a mysterious ancient carving on a jade cylinder kept in the Zhejiang Provincial Museum in the city of Hangzhou. The strange figure is incised on a jade cong, one of the most perplexing
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists in Israel have uncovered an incredible 5,000-year-old metropolis near the new city of Harish in Israel. The 160-acre city dubbed “Early Bronze Age New York” was once home to 6,000 people. Archaeologists are now
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Scientists at Britain’s national synchrotron facility have harnessed powerful light beams to virtually unwrap and decipher fragile scrolls dating back some 2,000 years in a process they hope will provide new insights into the ancient
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Three 400-year-old shipwrecks have been found during building work in central Gothenburg, Sweden. The wrecks were found during archaeological diggings in connection with building work for Gothenburg’s new railway line Västlänken, and the finds were
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Located in the Baltic Sea, Saaremaa is the largest Estonian island. Archaeologists can now investigate two large hoards of silver coin that will offer new light on Vikings’ presence on the island. The archaeological discovery was
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Fragments of some 100 Viking swords (and a few spearheads), have been unearthed in two closely located sites in a coastal area of northern Estonia, in the territory of the ancient Estonian county of Ravala,
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – School children in Sweden have accomplished what adults failed to do. A group of fifth-grade students deciphered runes that were previously impossible to read. The information we now gain from these mysterious runes can contribute
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The origin of the tin used in the Bronze Age has long been one of the greatest enigmas in archaeological research. Now researchers have solved part of the mystery. They were able to prove that
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – For three weeks the royal warship Gribshunden (1495) has been excavated on the seabed of the Baltic Sea off the coast of southern Sweden. Among others things, a very early firearm – one of the
