AncientPages.com – Archaeologists have unearthed the ruins of a 4,000-year-old Sumerian port in Mesopotamia, modern Iraq. It’s a major discovery that could shed more light on the great climate change shock of around 2,200 BC that is presumed to have caused

AncientPages.com – Nicknamed the ‘Robin Hood of the Seas’, legendary English pirate Black Sam operated in the early 18th century. As Ancient Pages reported earlier, in February this year, researchers discovered a shipwreck near Wellfleet, just outside the coast off Cape Cod,

AncientPages.com – A 2,500-year old mummy has been found in an ancient Egyptian coffin that was mistakenly classified as empty 150 years ago. The sarcophagus was one of four ancient and intricately designed Egyptian coffins acquired around 1860 by Charles Nicholson,

AncientPages.com – For the first time, the origin and trajectories of clay pottery created by Corded Ware culture dated c. 2900 BC – 2350 BC have been established by researchers from the University of Helsinki’s archaeology laboratory. During the Corded Ware Culture

AncientPages.com – It has long been assumed that large many parts of the Amazon were uninhabited because people didn’t want to live far from major rivers. However, a startling discovery reveals that there were hundreds of villages in the rainforest and

AncientPages.com – A depiction of Hatshepsut, one of the most prominent pharaohs in history has been accidentally found by Egyptology Dr Ken Griffin lecturer at Swansea University’s Egypt Center. Among many objects, particularly this ancient relief sculpture was much more interesting

AncientPages.com – In 2003, a tiny, mummified skeleton was discovered in the Atacama Desert behind a Church. It was so unusual that the discovery sparked international interest. The six-inch humanoid seemed to have an alien-like head and many people speculated it was

AncientPages.com – The history of Malta has been re-written. Scientists have evidence that the first people to inhabit Malta arrived 700 years earlier than previously thought. Analysis of ancient soils and DNA revealed that Malta’s first inhabitants came from different parts

AncientPages.com – Today, Sahara is a desert, but about 10,000 years ago this region of the world was green and fertile grassland. While excavating at a site named Takarkori in south-western Libya, archaeologists found as many as 200,000 seeds in small

AncientPages.com – Researchers in Argentina report they have discovered remains of a giant bear of the late Pleistocene, near Buenos Aires. It’s an extraordinary find and the skull and jaw of this giant bear are still almost complete. The discovery was made