AncientPages.com – Researchers have examined a relief, which was accidentally unearthed in the Elazig province, in eastern Anatolia, Turkey, almost a year ago. The relief dubbed “Harput Relief” is now dated back to 4,000 years ago, which meeans that the region’s history is also
AncientPages.com – On March 22, 871, the Battle of Marton (or Meretun) was fought at a place recorded as Marton, possibly in Wiltshire or Dorset, England. Miniature of Æthelred of Wessex in a royal genealogy of the fourteenth century. Image
AncientPages.com – According to a centuries-old legend, a great treasure belonging to the leader of a Chinese peasants uprising was lying at the bottom of a river. This ancient tale of Zhang Xianzhong and his sunken treasure, dating back to
AncientPages.com – On March 21, 1916, Frank James Marshall (1877-1944) played 105 boards simultaneously during an exhibition held at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. It was a world record, and Marshall was the first master to play over
AncientPages.com – An ancient burial box, inscribed with the name of Jesus in Hebrew, was recently discovered in an old cavernous warehouse in Israel. Archaeologists in Israel say that ancient box is not necessarily related to Jesus Christ, because the name
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Using 3D scanning technology, a team of experts and amateur archaeologists will study and create a new digital database of mysterious rock carvings left millennia ago by inhabitants of Argyll, an ancient shire of western
AncientPages.com – During excavations in the ancient city of Munigua in southern Spain, archaeologists have unearthed an immense copper mining operation built on an older older mine and dated back thousands of years ago. The Turdetani were original inhabitants of Munigua
AncientPages.com – Buhen was an ancient Egyptian settlement situated on the West bank of the Nile below the Second Cataract and between Lower and Upper Nubia and capital of Egyptian Nubia. The town Buhen is mainly associated with a massive fortress,
AncientPages.com – On March 20, 1916, Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955) submitted his “Foundation of the General Theory of Relativity” for publication in the journal Annals of Physics’ (Annelen Der Physik), one of the oldest scientific journals on physics and
AncientPages.com – On March 19, 1697, Tsar Peter the Great left Moscow to travel to Western Europe. He was the first Tsar to leave his country in peacetime and ‘opened a window into Europe.’ Russia would never be the same on his return,
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – Saraswati River is not a legend. It really existed when great civilizations flourished in the northwestern part of India. It has been richly described and celebrated in the Vedas and Puranic literature. Cities thrived on
AncientPages.com – On March 18 (or 19), 1314, Jacques de Molay, the last grandmaster of the Knights Templars, an order of knighthood founded during the Crusades, was burned at stake. Jacques de Molay, born in 1243, failed to exercise effective leadership when the suppression
AncientPages.com – The royal colossus unearthed a week ago in Matariya district, Cairo is probably a statue of 26 dynasty king Psammetich I and not King Ramses II as was earlier believed, reports Ahram Online. Preliminary analysis of fragments of the
AncientPages.com – On March 17, 1880, Captain Lawrence “Titus” Oates, an English cavalry officer with the 6th Dragoons and later an Antarctic explorer, was born in London. He died during the Terra Nova Expedition on the same day in 1912. Antarctic explorers: standing, (L-R)
AncientPages.com – An ancient observatory from the 3rd or 4th century has been discovered by a team of researchers during excavations carried out in the south of Iran. Traces of the ancient observatory were found during the excavation of the Paregan mound in the province of Khormozgan
AncientPages.com – On March 16, 1485, Anne Neville, the daughter of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, and Anne Beauchamp, died mysteriously at the age of twenty-eight. Did tuberculosis cause her death, or was she poisoned? Anne Neville spent most of
