AncientPages.com – The International Symposium “Cycladica in Crete: Cycladic and Cycladicizing figurines within their archaeological context” will take place on Thursday 1st and Friday 2nd October 2015 at the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens. The purpose of the Symposium on the Cycladic and
AncientPages.com – Remains of at least 50 people, all believed to date from 11th and early 12th century, have beeen discovered during demolition work to make space for new tower. The bones of men who may have witnessed the tumultuous
AncientPages.com – An international team of researchers led by André Strauss of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, presents evidence for a 9,000 year-old case of human decapitation that has been found in the rock shelter
AncientPages.com – A British archaeological team from the Field Museum and Oxford University conducted excavations between 1923 and 1929 in Kish City, 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of Baghdad. Since then, no other excavations have been made in the city, which
AncientPages.com – Nearly 50 people living in a cave and living off passing travellers by robbing, killing, butchering and eating them. The legend of Alexander Sawney Bean, and his clan of 48, has been a staple of Scottish folklore since the
AncientPages.com – The Egyptian Antiquities Ministry granted preliminary approval for the use of a non-invasive radar to verify a theory that Queen Nefertiti’s crypt may be hidden behind King Tutankhamun’s 3,300-year-old tomb in the famous Valley of the Kings, a
AncientPages.com – On Sep 23, 1459 – the first major battle in the English Wars of the Roses was at Blore Heath, two miles east of Market Drayton in Shropshire, England. The Wars of the Roses refers to a conflict
AncientPages.com – On Sep 22, 480 BC the battle in the Greco-Persian Wars was fought. In this battle a Greek fleet defeated much larger Persian naval forces in the straits at Salamis, between the island of Salamis and the Athenian
AncientPages.com – Work is continuing to open a previously hidden tunnel that was discovered during the restoration of Tokat Castle, known as the dungeon of Dracula. The tunnel in the northern province of Tokat, known as Ceylanyolu, is estimated to
A rare pre-Roman tomb has been unearthed in Pompeii, shedding new light on life at the site in the fourth century BC. The rare archaeological finding confirms that ancient Pompeii is still an inexhaustible source of scientific discoveries. The tomb
AncientPages.com – One of the richest Bronze Age cemeteries in the Polish lands has been discovered by archaeologists near the village Dunino in the commune Krotoszyce (Lower Silesia). Archaeologists found about 200 burials richly equipped with bronze and clay items
AncientPages.com – For more than a century and a half after the Mountain Meadows Massacre, no one knew exactly where the bodies were buried. A California-based archaeologist now says he has solved the mystery, and that it was surprisingly easy.
AncientPages.com – On Sep 21, 1780, General Benedict Arnold (1740 – 1801) committed treason. During the American Revolution, General Benedict Arnold (1740 – 1801) met with British Major John Andre and made a traitorous pact, giving to him plans to West
AncientPages.com – On September 20, 1066, the Battle of Fulford, near York, Yorkshire (then capital of Northumbria) was fought. Saxon troops of Mercia and Northumbria commanded by brothers Earl Edwin and Earl Morcar, met a Norse army under command of
AncientPages.com – Vikramashila was one of the two most important centers of Buddhist learning in India during the Pala Empire, along with Nalanda University. Vikramashila is a town situated in the state of Bihar, India. It lies at a distance
Mexico has restored a series of colorful 2,500-year-old cave paintings with help from the American archaeologist who first registered them almost 50 years ago. Paintings are concentrated in the area of Oxtotitlán, a natural rock shelter and archaeological site in
