Conny Waters – AncientPages.com -The ancient city of Carchemish (Karkamış), which was in the past, the most important administration center for the Hittite Empire in the region, will soon be opened to visitors. Carchemish (now located in the southeastern Turkish

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com  – A new study shows that before arrival of Europeans, climate change had significant impact on people living in the region of Amazon forest, home to dozens of sophisticated communities who lived in flourishing towns and

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists excavating in eastern North Carolina were surprised when they came across an ancient tavern along with several mysterious tools that were buried beneath the building. For reasons unknown, the tavern was burned to the ground.

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Some 9,000 years ago, residents of Çatalhöyük (on modern Turkey,) one of the world’s first large farming communities experienced overcrowding, infectious diseases, violence and environmental problems. Researchers report new findings built on 25 years of

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists in Rome, Italy have unearthed a magnificent 2,000-year-old marble head of God Dionysus, also known as Bacchus, the ancient god of wine and theater. The well-preserved head was found near the Roman forum. The

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Stonehenge in England is world famous and a major tourist attraction. It is widely believed that the stone circle was constructed in the late Neolithic period, about 2500 B.C. Everyone has heard about Stonehenge, but

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The Egyptian ministries of antiquities and foreign affairs have called on Christie’s auction house and UNESCO to stop the sale of a quartzite head from a 3,000-year-old stone statue of King Tutankhamun, and return it to Egypt

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists in Maine have reason to feel excited. They have just excavated what is believed to be the oldest dugout canoe ever found in the state of Maine. The canoe was discovered while scientists conducting

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – During the Iron Age around 300 AD something extraordinary was initiated in Levänluhta area in Isokyrö, SW Finland. People were buried in a lake but it’s unknown why the deceased were placed underwater. Researchers have

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Adelasius Ebalchus lived in what is now northern Switzerland some 1,300 years ago, centuries after the collapse of the Roman Empire. Who was he and what can he tell us about life during the Early

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – An underground city partly submerged underwater and estimated to be around 5,000 years old was discovered by municipality crews trying to determine the cause of flooding in several houses in the Avanos district of Turkey’s

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Long before farming appeared, humans were cooking, roasting and eating plant roots and this habit is 120,000 years old, according a new study. A team of archaeologists from South African and British universities discovered charred

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com  – A 2,300-year-old tablet with the ancient Greek alphabet was accidentally discovered inside the garden wall of a school in Turkey’s southwestern Mugla province during road construction works, reports Daily Sabah. The tablet, which was safely

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com  – A new study suggests that northern and central Asia’s wetter climates may have allowed Homo sapiens to expand across the deserts of Central Asia by 50-30,000 years ago. In fact, humans may have moved through these extreme settings

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The causes of disappearance of the Neanderthals, the only human population living in Europe before the arrival of Homo sapiens, have been debated for decades by the scientific community. Different hypotheses have been advanced to explain

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Nauka w Polsce reports that  one of Egypt’s oldest churches dating back to the 4th century was found hidden behind ancient basilica wall by Polish archaeologists. Archaeologists say this church could be one of the