Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Ostrów Lednicki, the largest of five islands on Lake Lednica, located between Gniezno and Poznan in Poland, is of significant historical importance and has been a central focus of researchers. Archaeological findings indicate that the
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Easter Island (Rapa Nui), situated in the heart of the South Pacific and thousands of miles from the nearest continent, is renowned as one of the world’s most remote inhabited locations. Traditionally, visiting this unique island
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Between 750 and 900 CE, the Maya lowlands in Central America underwent a significant demographic and political decline. Scientific studies have long linked this collapse to repeated episodes of intense drought during that period. For
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Peruvian archaeologists have uncovered an astronomical structure in the Casma Valley, Ancash region, that predates the renowned Chankillo solar observatory—previously considered the oldest of its kind in the Americas. View of the new excavated structure
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – An analysis of a unique looping trail of ancient footprints in the United States reveals the dinosaur that made it may have been limping. The site near Ouray in Colorado is one of the
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Finally, excavation work has begun at Lystra, a site of profound importance not just for Konya and Anatolian history, but also for world heritage, religious traditions, and Christian history. The archaeologists work under the supervision
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The story begins in 1915, when archaeologists excavating the Dominican monastery on Margaret Island in Budapest, Hungary, uncovered the bones of a young man in the sacristy. Through careful analysis of the burial context, historical
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Shoshenq III was a Pharaoh of ancient Egypt who ruled during the Third Intermediate Period, specifically during the 22nd Dynasty. His reign is generally dated to around 837 BCE to 798 BCE, though there is scholarly
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Ix Ch’ak Ch’een was a powerful Maya queen who ruled the ancient city of Cobá, located on the Yucatán Peninsula in present-day Quintana Roo, Mexico. Until recently, her story remained largely unknown. Cobá Archeological Area.
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The Jordan Codices are a set of sealed books discovered in Jordan that have captivated scientists and historians alike. Some scholars have proposed that these lead “books” could date back to the early Christian era, a
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The five-meter-tall and solitary stone structure atop a hill near Kars, Turkey, has long caught people’s attention. However, not for what is known about it, but rather for all that remains unknown. Overlooking Bulanik village,
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A recent international study published in Scientific Reports has identified a previously unknown Neanderthal site on Portugal’s Algarve coast. This site features the first fossilized Neanderthal footprints ever found in the region, offering new evidence of
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A significant archaeological discovery has recently been made on the Eurasian Steppe, where researchers have uncovered a large Bronze Age city known as Semiyarka. Nicknamed the “City of Seven Ravines” due to its strategic location
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – An ancient Roman sculpted portrait of an unidentified woman was discovered in a residential house in the western section of Chersonesos Taurica, located in the southwestern region of the Crimean Peninsula, present-day Sevastopol, Ukraine. The
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Hallie Meredith, an art history professor and glassblower at Washington State University, made a significant discovery about ancient Roman glasswork while examining a private collection of Roman glass cage cups at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A recent study conducted by the Yale Ancient Pharmacology Program (YAPP) has identified traces of opiates in an ancient alabaster vase from the Yale Peabody Museum’s Babylonian Collection. This discovery provides the most substantial evidence
