AncientPages.com – The ‘Standard of Ur’ is a Sumerian artifact excavated from what had been the Royal Cemetery in the ancient city of Ur (located in modern-day Iraq south of Baghdad). This enigmatic artifact is a small trapezoidal box (8.5
A Shiva temple, said to be at least 500 years old, lies abandoned and on the verge of disintegration. It is built on an acre of land over a a rock formation inside a scrub forest at Chinnaariyapatti near here.
Stone monoliths found buried near Stonehenge could have been part of the largest neolithic monument built in Britain, archaeologists believe. The 4,500-year-old stones, some measuring 15ft (4.5m) in length, were discovered under 3ft of earth at Durrington Walls “superhenge”. The
An early Christian crypt, among the largest in the Balkans, has been discovered by archaeologists near the Zaldapa Fortress close to the village of Krushari in Bulgaria’s Dobrich municipality, it was announced on September 4 2015. The crypt was found
One of the most important and beautiful sarcophagus has been improperly removed from the ground, the Israel Antiquities Authority said. A unique and extremely impressive stone sarcophagus, about 1,800 years old, was exposed at a building site in the new
In this interesting ancient history documentary we are sailing together with the Phoenicians and view the world through their eyes. These people were a great maritime people, known for their mighty ships and great experience as sea traders, traveling across
An international team of researchers has sequenced the first complete genome of an Iberian farmer. It is also the first ancient genome from the Mediterranean. This new genome provides the distinctive genetic changes of Neolithic migration in southern Europe that
AncientPages.com – Reconstruction of roads has led to the destruction of the unique, gigantic geoglyphs located in Torgay district (Kostanay region), Kazakhstan. In 2007, a sensational discovery of 9 unique and gigantic geoglyphs in the south of Kostanay (Kostanai) region,
A few decades ago, five wax tablets from the Second Century were found by Albanian archeologist Fatos Tartari who excavated the ancient necropolis of Dyrrhachium or Epidamnos (today Durres, Albania). The artifacts – discovered in the Roman concrete basement of
AncientPages.com – On September 5, 394 AD – the Battle of the Frigidus, was fought along the Frigid River (probably Vipava, in the Alps). Theodosius I the Great, Roman emperor who established Christianity as the official religion and persecuted the
Using satellite technology, USM archaeological team detected the wrecks of ancient ships embedded in the mud of an ancient river which once flowed through the oldest civilisation in Southeast Asia, “Kedah Tua”, thousands of years ago. “The archaeologists stumbled on
Siberian scientists make discovery of 2,500 year old Saka settlement in up to 23 metres of water in Kyrgyzstan. The new find at the lake is separate from the discovery in 2007 of the ruins of an ancient metropolis of
On Sep 4, 626 – Li Shimin, a founding father of the Tang Dynasty, a skilled Chinese politician, a master strategist and even an excellent calligrapher – assumed the throne over theTang dynasty of China. Li Shimin (598 AD—died 649
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Teams digging in an ancient city on Turkey’s Mediterranean coast that was once home to pirates discover a variety of artifacts, including anchors and a bath. Once a hub for pirate activity, the ancient city
An archaeologist has 3D-printed a replica of an iron-age artefact to revive a rich musical culture in ancient Ireland. Billy Ó Foghlú, from ANU College of Asia-Pacific, has found evidence that the artefact may have been a mouthpiece from an
A University of Otago-led research team has unexpectedly discovered the first evidence that the ancestors of Polynesians did not bypass New Guinea on their way from Southeast Asia to colonize remote areas of the Pacific, as was previously thought. Archaeologists
