AncientPages.com – Skeletal and crematory graves from the mid-1st millennium, and the remains of representatives of megafauna, living in the present Polish territory during the last Ice Age, have been discovered by archaeologists during the study of the Hanged Man
AncientPages.com – An ancient aqueduct system, which is estimated to belong to the historical castle of the city, has been uncovered in Borujerd in Lorestan Province during construction work. Pottery crocks were used in this system to clean up and
AncientPages.com – The oldest example of stone wall in the history of construction in the Polish lands, more than two and a half thousand years older than Romanesque architecture, has been discovered by archaeologists from Kraków on Zyndram’s Hill in
AncientPages.com – Enormous and impressive structure of Derawar Fort is located at the edge of the Cholistan desert. It’s a famed hallmark of Bahawalpur, the eleventh largest city in Pakistan and the capital of Bahawalpur District. The whole area around
The oldest Egyptian leather manuscript has been found in the shelves of the Egyptian museum in Cairo, where it was stored and forgotten for more than 70 years. Dating from the late Old Kingdom to the early Middle Kingdom (2300-2000
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Many fascinating archaeological findings have been reported by Polish archaeologists excavating at Old Dongola, the capital of a lost medieval kingdom that flourished in the Nile Valley. Among them is an enigmatic 900-year-old crypt covered
Ancient Pages.com – Researchers work with the layout of Tell el-Amarna, ancient Egypt’s capital during the reign of pharaoh Akhenaten (1353B.C–1336B.C using remote sensing techniques. Based on images obtained from those of Google Maps after some processing to enhance their
Thieving monks and cathedral tombs: Rediscovered cast skull of “father of English history” could solve medieval burial mystery. Cast skull discovery could answer questions about missing Venerable Bede’s bones and celebration of medieval cult. A Leicester academic says she has
“Chac Mool” (chacmool) is one of the most famous ancient statues throughout Mexico. The ancient name for these type of sculptures is unknown. It is also uncertain what or who the statue represents or what its purpose might have been.
We travel to the eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea Anatolia called Asia Minor, present-day Turkey. Today there are only ruins of that what once was the capital of the Hittite Empire in the late Bronze Age – Hattusa. Its
Maya activity more than 2,000 years ago not only contributed to the decline of their environment but continues to influence today’s environmental conditions, researchers at The University of Texas at Austin say. Synthesizing old and new data, researchers have for
Last fragment of early Christian christogram dated to the 6th century AD, has been discovered in the so-called Bishop’s Basilica in the ancient city of Parthicopolis in southwestern Bulgaria. It consists of a monogram of letters standing for the name
AncientPages.com – Archeologists working in Turkey’s eastern province of Van have uncovered 2,800-year-old pithos, or large ceramic storage containers, that once contained grain, oil and wine in the ruins of Çavustepe Castle built by Urartu King Sarduri II. “The storeroom
AncientPages.com -Dr Martin Bates from the University of Wales Trinity Saint David will take deep sea core samples to find the DNA of Doggerland, where humans lived in Doggerland from around 10,000 BC until it was flooded at the end
Cacao and holly beverages, which were both high in caffeine – were really valued by the people in the eighth century, living in what is now the Southwestern United States and Northwestern Mexico. A new paper published in the Proceedings
AncientPages.com – A treasure of 2,976 silver Roman coins from the 1st-2nd century AD has been discovered by archaeologists during the excavations of the ruins of the Ancient Thracian and Roman city of Serdica in the downtown of the Bulgarian
