Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Underwater archaeologists report they have discovered the remains of an ancient sunken ship at a site in the Mediterranean Sea, roughly 650 meters from the beach of el-Alamein, Egypt. Image credit: Supreme Council of Antiquities
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Earlier this year, a massive and horrifying earthquake struck southern and central Turkey and northern and western Syria. Almost 60,000 people died in the deadliest earthquake in present-day Turkey since the 526 Antioch earthquake and
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – In February 2022, the journal Scientific Reports published a paper with the claim that a comet exploded over what is now Cincinnati around 1,500 years ago, raining fire over the area and destroying villages and
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A luxurious artifact carved out ivory dating from the time of the Kingdom of Judah period (9th–8th centuries BCE) was uncovered during an archaeological excavation carried out in the City of David National Park in
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Around 150 so-called circular enclosures are known from the Central and Eastern European Middle Neolithic (first half of the 5th millennium BCE). Only a few of them have been extensively and systematically archaeologically examined. Aerial view
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Many ancient cultures used so-called ‘magical mirrors’ to ward off evil forces. The belief in the power of the Evil Eye goes thousands of years back in time. As previously discussed on Ancient Pages, the
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A new DNA study has nuanced the picture of how different groups intermingled during the European Stone Age and how certain groups of people were actually isolated. The study was carried out by researchers at
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – A new type of analysis of a spectacular 120-million-year-old fossil skeleton of the extinct early bird Jeholornis from northeastern China has revealed the oldest evidence for birds eating leaves, marking the earliest known evolution
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A Roman road network that spanned Devon and Cornwall and connected significant settlements with military forts across the two counties as well as wider Britannia has been discovered for the first time. Archaeologists at the
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Coal miners have discovered remnants of a Roman ship in Serbia. The find occurred when mining works were carried out in the Drmno open-pit mine (north-eastern Serbia), located near the Danube. Scientists are doing their
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com -Excavations in Hualongdong (HLD), East China, have revealed abundant hominin fossils dating back 300,000 years. The fossils from a late Middle Pleistocene were excavated by an international team of researchers in Hualongdong (HLD), East China. Anterior
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Evidence of the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 AD is currently being exposed in the City of David, Jerusalem Walls National Park. Some 2,000 years after the destruction of the Second Temple and
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – When excavating in the La Noguera region of the Pyrenean foothills, Spain scientists discovered bony remains of a 14,000-year-old skeleton of a small adult woman. She was nicknamed dubbed Linya, the Lady of La Noguera.
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A rare 2,500-year-old marble disc, designed to protect ancient ships and ward off the evil eye, was discovered by a lifeguard diving at sea and handed over to the Israel Antiquities Authority. Image credit: Israel
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – One of the first finds in new excavation reveals a glimpse of Roman life at Milecastle 46 on Hadrian’s Wall. Steelyard beam. Image credit: The Vindolanda Trust The top layers of the Hadrian’s Wall Milecastle
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – While 21st-century water companies struggle to maintain clean, fresh supplies, a new study reveals that, some 2,000 years ago, Roman water engineers were keeping up a regular program of managing and maintaining the ancient water
