AncientPages.com – Pulled from a peat bog in in the Ural Mountains, Russia back in 1890, the Shigir Idol is believed to be twice as old as Stonehenge and the Egyptian pyramids. Estimated to be about 11,600 years old, it is
AncientPages.com – We have seen on many occasions that ancient people were fascinated with tattoos. Archaeologists have discovered a 3,600-year-old tattoo kit in a burial west of Nashville, Tennessee, at a riverside campsite called the Fernvale site. According to scientists it’s
AncientPages.com – For the first time ever, scientists have examined a 1,500-year-old Egyptian papyrus discovered near the pyramid of Pharaoh Senusret I in 1934. The ancient papyrus contains descriptions of several Biblical events as well as formulas for prayers for people
AncientPages.com – Egypt, the land of the pyramids keeps delivering archaeological marvels. This time researchers announced they have unearthed an ancient shrine and a bust of the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius in southern Egypt. Located to the south of the Temple
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Symbols have always played an important role in human history, but when and where did the first symbols appear? How do we know if ancient etchings were symbolic in nature? These are questions scientists are
AncientPages.com – Constructed from 3,2 million stone blocks, each weighting an average of 2.5 tons, the Pyramid of Cheops reached a height of was 146.7 m (481.4 ft) when completed. It remained the tallest man-made structure in the world for over 3,800 years. Not
AncientPages.com – A showdown with religious dogmas, an early scientific approach, and diligent use of plants were some of the ingredients of ancient medicine. Welcome aboard a historic journey to Greek temples, body fluids, and Roman hygiene. We usually regard the
AncientPages.com – The Stonehenge mystery continues. This time an archaeologist has put forward a “different” theory suggesting that Stonehenge, located on Salisbury Plain in UK is older than mankind and the largest rocks at megalithic monument were not moved there by
AncientPages.com – The discovery of Czarist officer’s corpse in Turkey has led to a dispute between Russia and Poland. Both countries claim the body and Turkey is busy trying to solve the issue without creating a problem between the two countries.
AncientPages.com – There seems to be no ending to the amount of Nazca geoglyphs. As many as 50 giants figures have been unearthed by drones, Peruvian archaeologists report. Stretching across nearly 200 square miles of high arid plateau the Nazca
AncientPages.com – Egyptian coffins have indeed a long history. The oldest ones are more than 5000 years old and and they originate from the times, the state of the pharaohs was formed. One of the oldest Egyptian coffins at Tell el-Murra
AncientPages.com – A team of archaeologists working near the Swiss city of Basel are trying to figure out the purpose of ancient deep shafts built by ancient Romans at Augusta Raurica, an archaeological site located on the Rhine River in northern
AncientPages.com – Remains of a Graeco-Roman temple dated to the Greco-Roman period (332 BC – 395 AD) have been unearthed at the Al-Salam archaeological site, about 50km east of the Siwa Oasis. The discovery was made by an Egyptian team of archaeologists
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – The Norse creation myth in the Poetic Edda tells how the gods were born and how the earth was created. It is said that there was nothing, only an empty void without any existence at
AncientPages.com – Researchers have discovered 400-year-old documents that reveal Tadatoshi Hosokawa, a 17th-century lord of Kyusyu, Japan, ordered his people to produce opium for medical purposes. A description of opium imports was found in the historical record from 1628 was a
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Mysterious crystal sunstones are mentioned in many Icelandic Sagas. Long considered mythological objects, there is reason to believe that legendary Viking Sunstones did exist and Viking Sagas were more truthful than we realized. A special crystal
