AncientPages.com – Amerigo Vespucci was born in Florence on March 9, 1451. He was an Italian explorer, financier, navigator, and cartographer. He played a prominent role in exploring the New World, demonstrating that it was not Asia but an unknown new
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – By studying ancient DNA we can get a good glimpse into the distant past and learn about our ancestors. Scientists have now examined DNA in hair samples collected from Aboriginal people across Australia and the
AncientPages.com – On March 8, 1576, Diego García de Palacio explored the city of Copan. Palacio was a Spanish explorer sent to investigate new lands. Diego García de Palacio was one of the first anthropologists because, unlike the conquistadors, he actually
AncientPages.com – Rare ancient human footprints discovered on the Welsh coastline are 7,000 years old, say Cardiff University researchers. The ancient footprints of both children and adults, discovered at Port Eynon on the Gower Peninsula in 2014, were primarily dated to
AncientPages.com – Two 1.82-meter-high statues have been found in the grotto in Shimenshan area in the Dazu Rock Carvings in Chongqing, China. Shimenshan Rock Carvings are located to the east of Dazu County, during the Song dynasty. The name Shimen literally
AncientPages.com – An underground cache of bronze wares has been unearthed from a tomb site dating back 2,300 years in the city of Chengdu, a large city located n Sichuan, China. Chengdu – the earliest settlement in Southwest China – is a
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists excavating in Arene Candide Cave have discovered evidence humans may have ritualistically “killed” pebbles to remove their symbolic power about 12,000 years ago. Skeleton of a man discovered at Arene Candide. The man’s head
AncientPages.com – On March 7, 321 AD., Emperor Constantine (ruled 306 – 337 AD) passed his famous national Sunday law. It was ‘dies Solis’—the day of the sun, “Sunday”—as the Roman day of rest. Modern bronze statue of Constantine I
AncientPages.com – Using a combination of radiocarbon dating and ancient DNA, researchers show that a maternal dynasty ruled Pueblo Bonito in New Mexico’s Chaco Canyon, for more than 300 years. Researchers extracted DNA from nine skeletal remains of people buried inside
AncientPages.com – Two partial archaic human skulls, from the Lingjing site, Xuchang, central China, provide a new window into the biology and populations patterns of the immediate predecessors of modern humans in eastern Eurasia. The study of these skull fragments found in
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Israeli archaeologists have unearthed a table-like structure, dating back about 4,000 years in the Galilee Hills, Israel. A huge Bronze Age dolmen is inscribed with unique mysterious art and according to Uri Berger, an archaeologist
AncientPages.com – Ferdinand Magellan landed in Guam on March 6, 1521, during his fateful trip worldwide. It was the first contact Europeans made with the islands and an important stop during the expedition in Spain in 1519. Victoria, the sole
AncientPages.com – Archaeologists have discovered16 engraved limestone blocks, created 38,000 years ago, during an expedition in France’s Vézère Valley, Vézère Valley was used as a shelter by the Aurignacian people who are considered Europe’s earliest human culture. The discovery gives evidence
AncientPages.com – A team of international archaeologists has just begun exploring a mysterious ancient staircase in the Phnom Kulen in Siem Reap province, near the Angkor World Heritage Site in northwestern Cambodia. Phnom Kulen (its name means “mountain of the lychees”) is
AncientPages.com – On March 5, 1616, the Catholic Church banned Nicolaus Copernicus’s book “On the revolutions of the heavenly spheres” (De revolutionibus orbium coelestium). Copernicus’s conversation with God. Painting by Jan Matejko. Credit: Public Domain In the book, first published in
AncientPages.com – Excavation of the royal tombs of the Marquis of Haihun State of China’s Western Han Dynasty (206 BC-8 AD) revealed many relics and among them, there is the earliest portrait of Chinese philosopher Confucius, found in a tomb that
