Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – In Norse mythology, there are many stories about female warriors called shield-maidens. Historians have debated for years whether these powerful women did really exist and it seems now we have the answer to this question. Archaeologists

AncientPages.com – More than 800 years ago, a teenaged soldier named Laurentius Loricatus accidentally killed a man. He spent the next 34 years repenting alone in an Italian cave atoning for his crime, burning his face with a hot iron and

AncientPages.com – Archaeologists have found a massive complex of underwater ruins off the northeastern coast of Tunisia, proving that an ancient Roman city that once stood there was devastated by a tsunami 1,600 years ago and was partially lost beneath the

AncientPages.com – More than 2,000 years ago people in the Amazon forest constructed hundreds of mysterious earthworks, but for what purpose? Some theories have been put forward, but the truth is the ancient earthworks remain an unsolved puzzle. The earthwork ditches

AncientPages.com – A set of controversial, newly discovered human-like footprints from Crete are now putting theory of human evolution to the test. The footprints are about 5.7 million years old from Trachilos in western Crete, have an unmistakably human-like form. This

AncientPages.com – A 1.9-meter statue of a guard and part of a Medicine Buddha represent some of the finds revealed after 13 days of archaeological excavations conducted in Angkor Archaeological Park. Now, one of the most important tasks for archaeologists is

AncientPages.com – Archaeologists hope they have finally found the long-lost tomb of Tang Xianzu who has often been described as “China’s Shakespeare. While excavating in Fuzhou, east China’s Jiangxi Province scientists discovered 42 tombs including 40 from the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644).

AncientPages.com – While chronicling Saint Catherine’s Monastery’s library on the Sinai Peninsula, scientists discovered several scriptures with ancient lost languages. In ancient times monks often wrote copies of the Bible on top of old texts, meaning many ancient texts have been

AncientPages.com – Five ancient Roman tombs with different architectural style have been discovered in Egypt’s Dakhla Oasis. The tombs, unearthed in Beir Al-Shaghala necropolis in the Western Desert are built in mud brick and contain several artifacts, including the remains of a funerary

AncientPages.com – Plimpton 322 is a 3,700-year-old Babylonian clay tablets that has puzzled mathematicians for more than 70 years. The small tablet was discovered in the early 1900s in what is now southern Iraq and many attempts were made to understand

AncientPages.com – When Mount Vesuvius erupted on the morning of August 24, 79 A.D.  its great cloud of hot ash, stones and poisonous gases completely buried the whole Roman city of Pompeii. At the time of the destruction Pompeii was a