AncientPages.com – A remarkable, resourceful people lived in southern part of Bolivia between the 13th and 15th centuries. They left a legacy of countless fields of ‘quinoa’, a plant grown as a grain crop, which was used 3,000 to 4,000 years
AncientPages.com – A huge, more than 4,000-year-old military complex in northern Syria has been discovered by the Franco-Syrian mission “Marges arides de Syrie du Nord”. The complex – a vast structured surveillance and communication network – is located to the east
AncientPages.com – A skull of a young Scottish soldier who was imprisoned and died in Durham following the Battle of Dunbar in 1650, has been re-assembled and reconstructed by experts at Face Lab, based at Liverpool John Moores University. Durham University researchers
AncientPages.com – At first sight, these large circles discovered in a field near Oława, a town in south-western Poland remind us of a crop circle. However, what we are seeing are actually contours of a giant monumental structure. Archaeologists estimate our ancestors
AncietPages.com – Analysis of giant stone hats found on Rapa Nui, Chile (Easter Island) provides evidence contrary to the widely held belief that the ancient civilization had a warrior culture. Widely accepted belief that Rapa Nui inhabitants of Easter Island, located
AncientPages.com – A unique ancient monument built during, the late Second Ancient Turkic Qaghanate, has been discovered in eastern Mongolia by archeologists from Osaka University, Japan and the Institute of History and Archaeology of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences. The excavations,
AncientPages.com – Archaeologists excavating at a site in the town of Beit Shemesh, Israel have unearthed extraordinary ancient mosaics, precious crucifixes, beautiful jewelry and a long-lost church that was once part of a whole monastery complex. On June 13, 313 AD,
AncientPages.com – Nepali art history will have to be revised after the recent discovery of rock paintings in Upper Mustang, researchers say. Recently discovered ancient rock art could shed more light on history of the people of Upper Mustang, Nepal, according
AncientPages.com – Hidden in the vaults of Saint Catherine’s famed monastery, located in southern Sinai, there are thousands of sacred ancient manuscripts. Some of these works are the oldest in Christianity. As Ancient Pages previously reported during the inauguration ceremony, Egypt
AncientPages.com – More than 300 small rocks – dubbed by archaeologists as ‘sun stones’ – carved in the Stone Age, were recently excavated in Vasagård in southern Bornholm, Denmark. Why did Stone Age people carve images of the sun, fields, and spider
AncientPages.com – An astronomical observatory, massive stone walls and a great variety of pottery have been revealed during excavations at Espiritu Pampa archaeological site in Southern Cusco region, Peru. Experts believe that the structure served as an astronomical observatory for Wari’s
AncientPages.com – The ancient settlement area with the rock tombs, a temple area and a 50-meter-deep water tunnel have been discovered in Erzurum’s Dumlu neighborhood, located in eastern Anatolia, Turkey. Archaeologists say it may belong to the time of the Urartu
AncientPages.com – Archaeologists have discovered ruins of the lost town of Lechaion, the harbor from the ancient Greek city of Corinth. Many of the ancient underwater ruins are extremely well-preserved and among the monuments built of 5 ton blocks there are
AncientPages.com – We cannot rely on one theory, which suggests that modern humans evolved in Africa and then dispersed across Asia and reached Australia in a single wave about 60,000 years ago. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for the Science
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – In 1587, Urbano Monte (1544-1613), a little-known cartographer, created an amazing, hand-drawn, 10 feet by 10 feet map. Not only does the map depict the Earth as seen from space when directly looking down at
AncientPages.com – During the inauguration ceremony, Egypt officially reopened the 6th century Library and Mosaic in St. Catherine Monastery in Sinai. The famed monastery, located in southern Sinai, has an ancient priceless library that contains thousands of unique historical and religious
