AncientPages.com – A team of geneticists from Trinity College Dublin and archaeologists from Queen’s University Belfast have sequenced the genomes of an early farmer woman, who lived near Belfast some 5,200 years ago, and three men from a later period, around
AncientPages.com – An impressive marble statue of a ram, an ancient Christian symbol for Jesus, was discovered on Christmas Eve during the excavation of a Byzantine-period church in Caesarea, the Israel Antiquities Authority spokesperson, informed. The discovery was made last Thursday morning
AncientPages.com – Mosaics were a common feature of private homes and public buildings across the Roman empire. They were beautiful works of art depicting food, tools they used, clothes, animals and flowers. They also constitute invaluable records of the Romans daily
AncientPages.com – Archaeologists discovered two niches with six figures cut in rock inside two New Kingdom chapels in the Gebel Al-Silsila area, Egypt’s largest sandstone quarries located to the north of Aswan. The discovery was made during a survey carried out by
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists of the University of West Florida recently identified the archaeological site of the Luna settlement – the first multi-year European settlement in the United States – in a developed neighborhood in Pensacola. The artifacts discovered
AncientPages.com – A team of archaeologists led by professor Rubina Raja at Aarhus University, Denmark, have used CT scanning and advanced 3D-modelling to virtually ‘unfold’ the silver plate found in Jerash. “It’s the first time that it’s ever been done
![Photo taken on Dec 20, 2015 shows hoof-shaped gold ware unearthed from the main coffin in the Haihunhou (Marquis of Haihun) cemetery, East China's Jiangxi province. [Photo/Xinhua]](https://www.ancientpages.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/MarquisofHaihuntomb1.jpg "Does A 2,000-Year-Old Tomb Belong To Marquis of Haihun? - Search For His Seal Continues")
AncientPages.com – Chinese archaeologists on Sunday opened the lid of the external coffin of a 2,000-year-old tomb, which they believe belong to a marquis of the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC – 24 AD). They found a large number of gold
AncientPages.com – Archaeologists have been unable to determine the use or purpose of an 8.5 kilogram gold tool discovered in a Jerusalem cemetery. The Antiquities Authority turned to the public Tuesday to understand the purpose for a mysterious artifact that was
AncientPages.com – In Greece, underwater excavations of Lechaion, ancient Corinth’s partially submerged harbour town, reveal the infrastructure of more than a thousand years of flourishing maritime trade. Researchers from the Greek Ministry of Culture and Sports and the University of
AncientPages.com – A new Macedonian tomb with four chambers have been dicovered within the modern settlement of Pella. Pella Macedonian Tombs’ comlex is one of about 100 similar tomb complexes found in northern Greece. The Macedonian tomb was studied by archaeologists of Ephorate of Antiquities
AncientPages.com – One of the largest cache of ammunition has been unearthed in four pits, during the last eleven days of excavation works at the Fort St Angelo, informed the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI). Until now, as many as 35950
AncientPages.com – For the first time since its discovery in 1996, the tomb of Maia, the wet nurse of King Tutankhamun in Saqqara, opens to public, according to announcement made by Egypt’s Antiquities Minister Mamdouh El-Damaty. The New Kingdom rock-hewn tomb
AncientPages.com – Fifteen ancient tree species that grew 4,500 years ago in Alacahöyük, one of the most important centers of the Hittite civilization will be planted in order to create a “Hittite Forest” in the central Anatolian province of Çorum.
AncientPages.com – A cult area built for the god Zeus is considered the most important discovery during this year’s excavations in the ancient city of Metropolis, located in Aegean Izmir province’s Torbali district. Pieces of columns, which indicate the area was
AncientPages.com – An ancient necropolis believed to be the ‘cradle of the Scythians’ located in the vicinity of Mangerok in the North Altai in Russia has been studied by Russian-Polish team of archaeologists. The necropolis, in which Great Steppe nomads were buried 2500
AncientPages.com – Chinese archaeologists discovered an ancient tomb belonging to the Tuyuhun Huihua Princess during the early Chinese Northern Zhou Dynasty (557-581. The ancient tomb is located in Chang’an district of Xi’an, capital of Northwest China’s Shaanxi province. According to Shaanxi
