Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – An enigmatic object in form of the earliest known lunar calendar, dating from the Upper Paleolithic, has been found on a pebble found in the Alban Hills near Rome, Italy. It is also one of

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A skull with marks indicating that neurosurgery existed 2,200 years ago, has been unearthed during excavations carried out in the ancient city of Euromus, dated back to the fifth century BC  and located in Turkey’s southern

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists excavating in Israel’s Galilee have unearthed remains of an ancient church said to mark the home of the apostles Peter and Andrew. Mordechai Aviam of Kinneret Academic College, on the shore of the Sea

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Excavations at the ancient Urartu fortress in eastern Turkey’s Van province will help to solve the mysteries of a 2,700-year-old temple. For the past three decades, archaeologists led by archaeology Professor Mehmet Işıklı from Erzurum

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com -The lost kingdom of Urartu is shrouded in mystery and still very little is known about this ancient place  and the origin of its people. A new archaeological discovery will shed more light on the Urartian

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Researchers have long tried to explain purpose of Mesoamerican potbelly statues. Are they depictions of the ruling elite? Perhaps they were made to honor dead ancestors, or maybe they are portrayals of women giving birth? Magnetic

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Ahram Online reports that underwater archaeologists discovered more secrets of the sunken cities of Heracleion and Canopus in Abu Qir Bay, in Alexandria. Archaeologists from the Egyptian-European archaeological mission led by Frank Goddio, Head of the

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Ancient Romans had humor, no doubt about it. While vising London about 2,000 years ago they brought back a pen as a gift. The pen had a joke inscribed onto it, but was the gift

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Ur is one of the world’s oldest cities. What was life like for its inhabitants some 4000 years ago? During this year’s season at Ur, archaeologists focused on a residential building that was located on

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – An international team of scientists report a discovery of the remains of an intact and astonishingly preserved Early Modern Period  (Late 15th – early 16th Century) shipwreck in the Baltic. The unknown shipwreck – probably

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A fragment from 1,800 year-old glass fish at the National Trust’s Chedworth Roman Villa in Gloucestershire, has been discovered by archaeology student Peter Moore, while part of a team carrying out a dig at the

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The ancient urban complex of Kom el-Dikka has been excavated by Poland’s Centre for Mediterranean Archaeology (CAS since 1960. Polish archaeologists work in cooperation with the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities. Kom el-Dikka is a neighborhood

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – It’s the second time we encounter footprints in Europe of unknown beings who walked along the beach at Happisburgh, Norfolk, United. Kingdom. The tracks are said to belong to a mysterious 950,000-year-old ancestor and they

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Large coffin of King Tutankhamun is now under restoration for first time since 1922. Almost a century after its discovery, the largest gilded coffin of King Tutankhamun has been transported from the tomb in Luxor’s west

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – An international team of researchers for the first time applied marine geology techniques at an ancient harbor archaeological site to uncover ancient harbor technologies dated to the first centuries AD. The subject of their research