AncientPages.com – Archaeologists began the first round of excavation on Sunday of a much-sought sunken warship that was confirmed late last month to be the Zhiyuan, a famous vessel of the Beiyang Fleet that sank on Sept 17, 1894 during
AncientPages.com – The ruins of a 2,400 year-old shrine beneath Cairo’s modern district of Mataria, have been discovered by Egyptian and German archaeologists, according to Antiquities Minister Mamdouh el-Damaty announced Monday. The mission also unearthed remains of a limestone colonnade
AncientPages.com – The accuracy of the Old Testament is a controversial topic among scientists. Many regard the ancient text as inaccurate and untrue. Needless to say that Christian people are of a different opinion. The discovery of 15,000 ancient Ebla tablets
AncientPages.com – Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) extremists have blown up the famous Arch of Triumph in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra, the country’s head of antiquities said Oct.5, as the jihadists press their campaign to
AncientPages.com – A two-year meticulous investigation into the mystery of an Edinburgh crypt has finally cast important new light on the turbulent and little-known history of the Dark Ages in Scotland. Researchers carried out forensic tests on the skeletons of
AncientPages.com – 60 million years ago, two asteroids struck Earth in what is now Sweden. It is the only proven example of such a double strike. The only known evidence of two asteroids simultaneously crashing to earth has been unearthed
AncientPages.com – A massive ancient tomb recently opened in northern Greece was likely a monument to Hephaestion, the close companion of Alexander the Great, experts working on the monument said Wednesday. “We surmise it was a funerary heroon (hero worship
AncientPages.com – Aboriginal society has preserved memories of Australia’s coastline dating back more than 7,000 years, researchers say. After three years of painstaking research, University of the Sunshine Coast Professor of Geography Patrick Nunn and collaborator Nick Reid, a University of
AncientPages.com – A 1,500 year old mosaic, depicting a map with streets and buildings, was uncovered on the floor of an early Christian church in Kiryat Gat, about two years ago. This extraordinary mosaic served as the floor of a church
AncientPages.com – The 1st century AD inscription printed on an ancient clay vessel in an ancient Thracian burial mound near the town of Tatarevo in Southern Bulgaria is a verse from the poem “Prayer to the Muses” by Ancient Greek
AncientPages.com – Ornate ancient Thracian marble steles from a Thracian shrine dedicated to the sun have been restored with a permanent open-air exhibition of replicas of the steles. The ancient Thracian shrine is located in the area known as Stolovatets,
AncientPages.com – Research into human fossils dating back to approximately two million years ago reveals that the hearing pattern resembles chimpanzees, but with some slight differences in the direction of humans. An international team of scientists led by Rolf Quam
AncientPages.com – Archaeologists from Odense City Museums have opened a stone coffin beneath the city’s smal timber church of St. Alban’s Priory in Odense, Denmark The coffin with the remains had remained untouched for about 1,000 years, reports DR.dk. The
AncientPages.com – Three massive, mysterious amphoras have been unearthed during excavations in the Kaniş-Kültepe-Karum archaeological field in Kayseri. While still unsure as to their use, experts said it would be difficult to produce such amphoras, even with today’s technology. The
AncientPages.com – There are many reasons why we should treat the wisdom of the past seriously. Many of our so-called modern inventions are in fact nothing more than re-inventions of technology our ancestors were familiar with thousands of years ago. Giving
AncientPages.com – A unique belt made of pure silver dating back to the 2nd-4th centuries AD is among several other precious items discovered by archaeologists during the construction of a sewage system in Rusovce, a suburb of Bratislava,’ reports The
