Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The catastrophic Minoan eruption – one of the largest volcanic outbreaks in recorded history of mankind and known as the ‘Thera eruption’ – took place around 1650 BC. It buried the major port city of
AncientPages.com – On March 4, 1852, the prominent Russian writer, playwright, poet, critic, and publicist of the 19th century, Nikolay Gogol, died. The story of Nikolay Gogol’s death has always been shrouded in mystery. Monument of young Gogol on Andreevsky
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Two amateur treasure hunters have discovered remarkable gold artifacts decorated with ancient Celtic art. It is an incredible discovery because examination revealed the precious artifacts are the earliest example of Iron Age gold ever found in
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A shipwreck sunk 2,600 years ago, off the coast of Gela in southern Sicily and the story of this ship is still fascinating today. The ship – dated to the first half of the sixth
AncientPages.com – New discoveries made by archaeologists in Timna Valley, Israel shed light on complexity of Iron Age copper production. Recent excavations At Timna revealed the astonishing well-preserved of 3,000-year-old remains of advanced military fortification and a gatehouse complex including donkey
AncientPages.com – On Mar 3, 1847, Alexander Graham Bell was born. Bell was an eminent Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer, and innovator credited with inventing the first practical telephone. Bell had long been fascinated by the idea of transmitting speech and by
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Everyone living outside of Africa today has a small amount of Neanderthal in them. The last Neanderthal died 40,000 years ago, but much of their genome lives and contribute to certain traits in modern humans.
AncientPages.com – Working in the area of the ruins of the Tomb of the Prophet Jonah, destroyed by Isil, archaeologists made a surprising discovery of a previously undiscovered and untouched 600 B.C palace, reports the Telegraph. The Nebi Yunus shrine is
AncientPages.com – On March 2, 537, during the Gothic War, the First Siege of Rome began and lasted for a year and nine days, from March 2, 537, to March 12, 538. The Ostrogothic army was under King Vitiges, an
AncientPages.com – A sanctuary dedicated to the god Mithra, the Indo-Iranian deity Mithra, has been just unearthed at a Roman site of Mariana, created around 100 BC and located on the Island of Corsica. A team of archaeologists led by Philippe
AncientPages.com – On March 1, 1854, Inman Line’s SS City of Glasgow left Liverpool harbor bound for Philadelphia just like she had for the last four years. It had 480 onboard, including 293 emigrants. SS City of Glasgow – the first Atlantic steamship that was
AncientPages.com – It was long believed that Egyptian temple culture was declining in the Ptolemaic era, after the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC. Egyptologist Carina van den Hoven who studied the ritual scenes depicted on the walls of
AncientPages.com – Archaeologists have found a carefully carved toy in form of a wooden boat with a raised prow like a proud Viking ship, and a hole in the middle where a mast could have been stepped. The artifact was
AncientPages.com – Two fat woman figurines unearthed in the 9,000-year-old Neolithic settlement of Çatalhöyük represent elderly women, not the Anatolian mother goddess Cybele as was earlier believed. “These figurines symbolize old women that have high status in the society instead of
AncientPages.com – On February 28, 1838, Robert Nelson, leader of the Patriotes, proclaimed the independence of Lower Canada (today Quebec). Nelson was born in Sorel (near Montreal) to William Nelson, an immigrant to Colonial America from Newsham, North Yorkshire. He
AncientPages.com – The 2,700-year-old ceramic sculpture of a Cypriot goddess was discovered off the coast of the Bozburun, in the western province of Muğla’s Marmaris, Turkey. The sculpture is probably the biggest one in the history of Turkish underwater history. Researchers
