AncientPages.com – Few manuscripts have caused as much controversy and debate as the mysterious Voynich manuscript. Is it a hoax or a genuine book? It seems the verdict is still out on this puzzling manuscript. This ancient medieval text is a
AncientPages.com – Etzanoa, a Native American city has been missing for 400 years and not it has finally been found! The long-lost city was the size of Cahokia, a prehistoric metropolis north of Mexico. When the Spaniards entered Etzanoa, they were
AncientPages.com – While examining ancient astronomical symbols, scientists found evidence that confirm a comet swarm struck the Earth around 11,000 B.C. During this event, many large animal species were killed and a mini Ice Age was triggered. Remains at the site
AncientPages.com – Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was a great scientist and a man ahead of his time. His vast knowledge and scientific curiosity resulted in a number of incredible inventions. Although some of his inventions were re-inventions based on ancient knowledge, his
AncientPages.com – The discovery in 2013 in Indonesia of a tiny species known as the Hobbit, named Homo floresiensis caused a sensation among scientists. Who were these mysterious beings? Were they another species of human, like us but mysteriously different? One
AncientPages.com – On April 20, 1535, an atmospheric optical phenomenon known as the “Sun Dog” was observed over Stockholm. 17th-century painting of Stockholm, a copy of the so-called Vädersolstavlan, depicting a halo display event in 1535. Image via wikipedia The painting
AncientPages.com – If you are a fan of Jules Verne, then you’ll find this news exciting. A metal bow belonging to Jules Verne has been discovered in the vicinity of the French Pyrenees in the Occitaine region. The contents of this
AncientPages.com – On April 19, 1770, Captain James Cook spotted and claimed the East Coast of Australia Cook was born in northeast England in 1728, and in his late teens, he worked on ships along the English coast and the Baltic
AncientPages.com – On the evening of April 18, 1775, Dr. Joseph Warren instructed Paul Revere, a Boston silversmith, to ride to Lexington, Massachusetts, to warn Sam Adams and John Hancock that the British troops were approaching to arrest them and
AncientPages.com – On April 17, 1397, Geoffrey Chaucer (1343 – 1400) was recorded to have given the first presentation of his Canterbury Tales at the English royal court of Richard II. Left: Geoffrey Chaucer (17th century); Right: title page of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury
AncientPages.com – Still much is buried under the sands in many places across the world. Recently, a strong sand storm in Kerman province in southern Iran has contributed to an important discovery of a lost ancient city. For now some of
AncientPages.com – Archaeologists continue to analyze the old remains of the Danish medieval warship “Gribshunden” (Griffin-Hound), discovered at the bottom of the sea off the Swedish coast. In 2016, a group of divers transported parts of the ship, including the colorful figurehead, back
AncientPages.com – Christiaan Huygens was born in Hague on April 14, 1629. He was a Dutch mathematician, astronomer, and physicist best known for his contributions to mathematics and physics. Huygens was the first to recognize the rings of Saturn, made
AncientPages.com – People in Switzerland were running high alpine pastures much earlier than previously assumed, according to a study that combines archeological knowledge with findings from paleoecology. Scientists from the Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research at Bern University say there’s
AncientPages.com – Archaeologists have recently discovered a range of Roman objects through a major road improvement scheme in North Yorkshire. The artifacts including Roman shoes, keys, a rare silver ring, a plumb bob used to build straight roads and a rare
AncientPages.com – Last year, archaeologists discovered the original shrine belonging to Viking King Olaf Haraldsson who was declared a saint in 1031. St. Olaf, as he is now known, conquered and consolidated Norway in 1016 but held on to rule for
