Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists are investigating a mysterious 5000-year-old mass grave in Poland that could shed light on a particularly violent era in European prehistory of which little is known. Ancient DNA reveals a large family was brutally murdered,

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A study of ancient DNA samples reveals some Northern Europeans came from Siberia. Researchers extracted DNA from the tooth roots of 56 individuals, 33 of which yielded enough DNA to include in the analysis. Most Europeans

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Stone tools ranging in age from 500,000 to 60,000 years old in gold mines in eastern Sudan, have been discovered by an international team of archaeologists. The discovery is a proof of existence of an unknown

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A stunning Sphinx Room at Emperor Nero’s famed Domus Aurea (Golden House) in Rome has been rediscovered after 2,000 years. The room is decorated with magnificent images of panthers, centaurs and a beautiful sphinx. Experts found the

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Ancient Bazira, also known as the city of Alexander the Great was established after the destruction of the lower city in the third century by a catastrophic earthquake. The city was abandoned in the third century

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com  – One thousand years ago, Native Americans in South America used multiple psychotropic plants — possibly simultaneously — to induce hallucinations and altered consciousness, according to an international team of anthropologists. The researchers were searching for

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists report they have discovered an ancient cemetery near the Giza pyramids in Egypt. At the site, scientists found a fine limestone statue of one of the tomb’s owners, his wife and son from the Old

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The biblical King Balak may have been a historical figure, according to a new reading of the Mesha Stele, an inscribed stone dating from the second half of the 9th century BCE. A name in Line

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Egyptologists have long wondered who ruled ancient Egypt before pharaoh Tutankhamun ascended the throne. Many theories have been put forward, but the ancient mystery has not been solved. Some scholars suggest Nefertiti, the sister and wife

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com  – The largest known figurine workshop in the Mayan world, has been discovered by archaeologists working in Guatemala. The workshop dated to between 750 and 900 AD, made intricate, mass-produced figurines that likely figured heavily in

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – An ancient painted vase, which bears one of the longest hieroglyphic texts unearthed in Belize of the Central America , is offering new clues into the mysterious breakdown of ancient Maya civilization, researchers say. The

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A Greco-Roman era rock-cut tomb was unearthed in Aswan West Bank by an Egyptian-Italian archaeological mission working at the Aga Khan Mausoleum area, a senior official in the Antiquities Ministry told Ahram Online. The tomb, which was

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A fascinating discovery has been made in Utah. A hiker accidentally found a pair of ancient Roman coins. The big question is – how did ancient Roman coins end up in Utah? A pair of ancient