Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A huge prehistoric settlement was discovered on the banks of the Sorek stream, is located 5 km (three miles)  west of Jerusalem, according to the Israel Antiquities Authority, which supervises the excavations. Aerial view of

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The Sofia Globe reports  that archaeologists working at the Episcopal Basilica site in Bulgaria’s second city Plovdiv have found a large stone slab, inscribed in ancient Greek with the names of 44 members of the

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Ancient civilizations have always been interested in watching the skies. Solar observatories were built world-wide and astronomy played an important role is humans’ daily life. Much attention is given to scientific achievements in ancient Egypt,

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeology in Bulgaria reports that a huge 40-meter (130-foot) long tunnel for looting that fit large draft animals to pass through, was unearthed by a team of researchers led by Kostadin Kisyov of the Plovdiv Museum of

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A collection of newly found sarcophagi, some containing well-preserved mummies have been unveiled when Egypt opened two ancient pyramids located south of the capital Cairo. New discovery in Dahshur: funerary masks, anthropoid sarcophagi, mummies. source The

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Using non-invasively muon radiography, nuclear physicists in Russia may have just detected one of the oldest Christian churches in the world. This hidden subterranean structure is located in the medieval fortress of Naryn-Kala, in the ancient city

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – When and where did the first human appear? For years, archaeologists and scientists have tried to answer this troublesome question and new discoveries keep forcing us to re-evaluate our understanding of human beginnings. Now, a

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists excavating in the area of  Nangur village in Nagapattinam district, located in southern India, found evidence indicating the existence of human settlement dating back to the Sangam Age. Sangam Age was the period of

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The so-called “Sacred Road” has been unearthed between two ancient cities  Stratonikeia and Lagina, in what is today western Turkey’s Aegean Mugla province. Both towns have remained continuously inhabited throughout the Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, Ottoman and

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Thousands of coins dating back to the Roman era could be the work of First Century counterfeiters, researchers say. Archaeologists suspect, that up to one fourth of coins found in Poland could be fake, though

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The First News reports that about seventy Arab coins have been discovered on the graveyard near the town of Kamień Pomorskie in the north-west, not far from the German border. Archaeologists say the coins date

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Researchers analyzed the role of diet in the ability of the ancient Maya to withstand periods of severe climatic stress. An increase in the elite Maya’s preference for a maize-based diet may have made the population

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A  new study reports that ancient people in east Asia, were reshaping their skulls as early as 12,000 years ago. The so-called elongated skulls (having artificially elongated brain cases and flattened bones) was a prehistoric

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The Philistines – known for their biblical conflict with the Israelites – were an ancient people who were lived in south cost of Canaan between the 12th century BC to 604 BC when they exiled