AncientPages.com – Well-preserved human skeletons estimated to be about 4,500-years-old have been unearthed from a graveyard in southwest China’s Sichuan Province, according to the archaeological team working in the area. The graveyard was discovered on the site of a prehistoric city
AncientPages.com – On April 19, 1770, Captain James Cook spotted and claimed the East Coast of Australia. Cook was born in north-east England in 1728, and in his late teens, he worked on ships along the English coast and the
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 coming to arrest them. Paul Revere
AncientPages.com – A 400-meter stretch of unbroken castle wall–the largest intact example of such stone masonry from the feudal era –has been discovered during excavations at Okazaki Castle, the birthplace of the founder of the Tokugawa Shogunate (1543-1616), one of the most influential
AncientPages.com – A fragment of the Late Antiquity fortress wall of the Ancient Roman city of Sexaginta Prista (meaning “Port of the Sixty Ships”) has been discovered in the Danube city of Ruse in Northeast Bulgaria. The fortress wall that dates back
AncientPages.com – On April 16, 1457, BC (other sources propose May 9), the Battle of Megiddo took place during a rebellion against Pharaoh Thutmose III. On one side, there was a large Canaanite coalition under the King of Kadesh, and on
AncientPages.com – The Battle of Rain (also called the Battle of the River Lech or Battle of Lech) was fought on April 15, 1632, during the Thirty Years’ War. The forces involved in this encounter were 40,000 Swedish-Saxon troops under King Gustav II Adolf of Sweden and 25,000 Catholic League troops under Count
AncientPages.com – Archaeologists have been working to solve the mystery of five-ton lion sculptures recently found in a field in Sorgun, a town located in the Central Anatolia, Turkey. A preliminary investigation has been made in the area and it shows
AncientPages.com – Relics of an ancient six-thousand-year old village in the Sarvabad county in Kurdestan Province have been unearthed by Iranian archaeologists. The ancient village was unearthed in the Sarcham archeological site in the vicinity of Rowar Village, Excavation Head of the
AncientPages.com – For many years, scientists have debated the age of some of Europe’s oldest cave art. Many questions have remained without answers, among them, perhaps one probably the most important: Were the stunning images of cave lions, horses, and bulls
AncientPages.com – On April 12, 238 AD, Gordian II lost the Battle of Carthage against the forces of Numidia, an ancient Berber kingdom in what is now Algeria and a minor part of Tunisia in North Africa. The Numidians were
AncientPages.com – On April 11, 1814, Napoleon Bonaparte, emperor of France and one of the most outstanding military leaders in history, abdicated the throne and was banished to the Mediterranean island of Elba. Napoleon on Elba, an early 19th-century painting
AncientPages.com – A new William Shakespeare First Folio, part of the original collection of 36 plays published in 1623, has been discovered on Isle of Bute, Scotland. Emma Smith, professor of Shakespeare Studies at Oxford University, authenticated the First Folio as genuine,
AncientPages.com – Archaeologists from the Regional Museum of History in the city of Veliko Tarnovo in Northern Bulgaria are hoping to restart the archaeological excavations of a surviving 14-meter ancient Roman Obelisk near Lesicheri, located in North-Central region of Bulgaria, according
AncientPages.com – On April 8, 1820, the Greek farmer Yorgos Kentrotas stumbled upon a damaged statue in a buried niche within the ancient ruins of Milos, Greece. Venus de Milo on display at the Louvre. Image credit: Shonagon – CC0 1.0
AncientPages.com – An ancient tomb dating back to the late Eastern Han Dynasty (AD 25-220), nearly 2,000 years ago, has been found in South China’s Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, according to local authorities. Han Dynasty (206 BC-220 CE) was one of
