AncientPages.com – Tom Garrison was four hours away from camp — headed into the city down a bumpy jungle road to get treated for poisonwood exposure — when he got a call from his co-director Edwin Román. “You need to get back
AncientPages.com – Archaeological evidence shows that despite hygienic innovations introduced by the Romans, intestinal parasites such as whipworm, roundworm and Entamoeba histolytica dysentery did not decrease as expected in Roman times compared with the preceding Iron Age. Instead, they gradually increased.
AncientPages.com – An international team of scientists working with paleopathologist Albert Zink and microbiologist Frank Maixner from the European Academy (EURAC) in Bozen/Bolzano have now identified the presence of Helicobacter pylori in Ötzi’s stomach contents, a bacterium found in half of all humans
AncientPages.com – Scientists once again try to restore the chronology of the Homeric epics Iliad and Odyssey. They compare the natural phenomena the epic describes with astronomically ascertained ones, thus verifying the historical truth of the narrative. As a result, the
AncientPages.com – The remains of a 3,400-year-old citadel the citadel that once served the needs of mariners, who often visited the ancient port city, was recently uncovered in Nahariya, Israel, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced on Wednesday. The large excavation was
AncientPages.com – An international study based on DNA from Anatolian remains and coordinated from Stockholm shows importance of the role Anatolia played, when farming spread throughout Europe some 8000 years ago. Human material from the Anatolian site Kumtepe, excavated in 1994,
AncientPages.com – Archaeologists digging in Newhaven, a historic fishing village in Scotland, discovered poorly preserved human bones dated to the sixteenth or seventeenth century. The team was looking for traces of the original ancient harbor and possible artifacts related to shipbuilding.
AncientPages.com – An ancient road built using the polygonal technique has been accidentally discovered during drainage works conducted at an archaeological site in the southern province of Mersin’s historical Tarsus district. Tarsus is a Turkish city 27 kilometers east of Mersin, best known
AncientPages.com – Archaeologists have found new evidence that suggests date of origin of Tel Al-Dafna site, located at the Al-Qantara West area in Ismailiya, 11 kilometres west of the Suez Canal,informed Antiquities Ministry Mamdouh al Damaty. The team found lava remains
AncientPages.com – The Asclepieion also known as the Asclepius sanctuary is located at the southern slope of Acropolis but it was unknown until a few years ago. Asclepius was the god of medicine and healing in ancient Greek religion and mythology. His cult became extremely popular
AncientPages.com – Ivan IV “the Terrible” of Russia (1530-1584) was a cruel tyrant, who never knew the meaning of moderation; he drank too much, laughed too loudly and hated and loved too fiercely. And he never forgot anything. Ivan was definitely
AncientPages.com – A black granite statue of King Amenhotep III was found by chance in a residential house in Al-Nakhl village in Edfu, Aswan. In collaboration with Edfu police, Egypt’s Antiquities Ministry has succeeded in recovering a black granite colossus of
AncientPages.com – It wasn’t any easy task to restore the seventh-century Baekje-era stone pagoda at the UNESCO-registered Mireuksa Temple site in Iksan, North Jeolla Province. The 1,300-year-old pagoda is indeed, an important project in Korea, but no proven historical records could guide
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A few years back, Rosh Ha‘ayin unveiled some remarkable historical treasures. Photo credit: Assaf Peretz, Israel Antiquities Authority, and Griffin Higher Photography. An imposing farmstead from First Temple era, a monastery, and a church adorned with
AncientPages.com – An impressive 2,700 year old farmhouse and a 1,500 year old church with colorful mosaics and inscriptions in it were uncovered in the excavations in Rosh Ha-Ayin, the Israel Antiquities Authority spokesperson, informed. The farmhouse (30 × 50 meters had
AncientPages.com – The wreck of an ancient ship has been discovered off the coast of Salento. It is believed the wreck dates back to either the 12th or 13th century. The sunken ship, made almost entirely of wood and measuring 18 metres by
