Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – While conducting salvage works of Section 7 of the Mayan Train, a team of archaeologists from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) unearthed a funerary urn representing the god of corn. Funerary urn depicting
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – During archaeological excavations in Tenea, an ancient Greek town near Corinth, built by Trojan prisoners of war, scientists unearthed a wonderful treasure and intriguing ancient ruins. Credit: Ministry of Culture The excavations at the site, located
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Rock-hewn Ptolemaic and Roman tombs with intriguing golden masks, mummies, coffins, and terracotta statues have been unearthed in the historic city of Al Bahnasa in the Minya governorate, Egypt. Credit: Supreme Council of Antiquities Al-Bahnasa is
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A vast fortification, which is one of the longest known going back 4,000 years was just discovered by a team of scientists from the CNRS1 and the Royal Commission for AlUla (RCU). Location map of
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists were baffled, to say the least, when they discovered an ancient Roman necropolis containing 67 dressed skeletons buried in 57 ornate tombs. Unearthing ancient Roman tombs is not remarkable, but this particular find is
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Coal miners in North Dakota have discovered a 7-foot-long (2.1 meters) mammoth tusk that had been buried for thousands of years. A shovel operator at the Freedom Mine near Beulah was working the overnight shift
AncientPages.com – All human beings age. It is part of our biology and limits our lifespan to slightly over 120 years. Not all animals experience ageing during their lives. Some animals’ bodies do not gradually degenerate as they get older the way our bodies
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Scientists have unearthed an ancient Roman temple that adds significant insights into the social change from pagan gods to Christianity within the Roman Empire. The discovery was made by Douglas Boin, Ph.D., a professor of
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A new study scientifically corroborates an event described in the Second Book of Kings – the conquest of the Philistine city of Gath by Hazael King of Aram. The method is based on measuring the
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists have discovered a peculiar stone disk while investigating an ancient hill fort in Rupinpiccolo, northeastern Italy. The 50 cm in diameter and 30 cm thick stone disk features 29 curious human-made engravings. Archaeologist Federico
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Researchers at Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany have carried out the first comprehensive analysis of some 20 mummy fragments from collections in the University’s archives and have presented their findings in Annals of the History and
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists are investigating a rather peculiar Medieval cemetery located in a field not far from Fonmon Castle in Wales, UK. The fortified Medieval castle was built by Oliver St John of Fonmon, one of the
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Central features of human evolution may stop our species from resolving global environmental problems like climate change, says a recent study led by the University of Maine. Credit: Adobe Stock – Zahid Humans have come
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A centuries-old mystery may finally have been solved. Cerne Abbas Giant, the 180ft (55-meter) tall club-wielding man in Dorset, UK, has long been considered a fertility sign due to his large, erect phallus. The Cerne
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – In eastern Mongolia, a 405 km long previously unexplored wall system has been largely overlooked in existing academic discourse. Named the “Mongolian Arc,” the structure consists of an earthen wall, a trench, and 34 structures.
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – On 12 September 1901, Denis Peyrony, a local schoolmaster, stepped inside the Font-De-Gaume Cave. He discovered marvelous prehistoric cave paintings that our ancient ancestors created during the Magdalenian period. Cro-Magnon artists painting in Font-de-Gaume, by
