Scripts, Paintings & Inscriptions Archive
Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - In a new study published in Hebrew University’s Jerusalem Journal of Archaeology, Dr. Daniel Vainstub deciphered a partially preserved inscription that was found on
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A text thought to be lost by the astronomer Claudius Ptolemy (2nd century BC) has been discovered thanks to multispectral imaging, then deciphered
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Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Rök Stone (in Swedish, Rökstenen') is the 9th-century memorial granite block covered with the longest runic inscription ever discovered. The 4-ton stone is located
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - In the Middle Ages, the Roman alphabet and runes lived side by side. A new doctoral thesis challenges the notion that runes represent
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Some years ago, scientists recorded a previously unknown feeding strategy in whales worldwide. Now, researchers in Australia think they may have found evidence
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Artifacts
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Inscribed with passages from the Egyptian Book of the Dead, the ancient Egyptian scroll known as the Waziri Papyrus I is over 16
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Researchers from the CNRS, Sorbonne Université and Tyndale House (affiliated with the University of Cambridge) have found fragments of the Star Catalogue composed
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Artifacts
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Curse tablets were popular and widely used in the ancient world. The corresponding incantations were often inscribed or carved on thin sheets of
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Secret, coded letters penned by Mary, Queen of Scots, while she was imprisoned in England by her cousin Queen Elizabeth I, have been
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Researchers have unraveled secrets from ancient Latin texts written on papyrus. This work could tell us a great deal about what Roman society
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - This magnificent artwork was discovered in a palace at Amarna, ancient Egypt's capital, during the reign of Pharaoh Akhenaten (1347–1332 B.C). The ancient
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A series of exciting inscriptions, almost invisible to the naked eye, have been discovered in the margins of an important eighth-century manuscript in
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Advanced techniques to analyze the Dead Sea Scrolls and Eastern papyri are revealing vibrant secrets about daily life in the ancient world. Around
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News
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A researcher at the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage of Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Dr. Matteo Cosci, has retrieved archival information which
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A rare English illuminated medieval prayer roll, believed to be among only a few dozen still in existence worldwide, has been analyzed in
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Linguistic Discoveries
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Abbey Library of St. Gall in Switzerland is home to approximately 160,000 volumes of literary and historical manuscripts dating back to the
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Humans have been always on the move, creating a complex history of languages and cultural traditions dispersed over the globe. An international team
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Featured Stories
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Mahabharata and Ramayana are two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India. These two literary masterworks contain a wealth of information and hold a
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Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Ogham is ancient writing, of which the earliest examples date back to 2200 BC. The language of the inscriptions is Irish, but many
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Proto-Elamite script is the world's oldest system of writing that has yet to be deciphered. This Early Bronze Age writing was briefly
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Ancient Traditions And Customs
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - If you have the patience and are not determined to compete with some of the world’s most talented artists, painting can be a
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News
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - This is really great news to anyone who appreciates art and culture. The Louvre Museum has announced it has put its entire collection
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The faces of two of the most famous people of ancient Egypt have been reconstructed with the use of artificial intelligence. Queen Nefertiti
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - In Japan, the suppression of Christianity increased from the end of the 16th century to the beginning of the 17th century, and many
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Depictions of animals are a common subject for the world’s oldest dated rock art, including lions in France’s Chauvet Cave and wild bovids in
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An inscribed animal dated to the seventh century proves that Germanic runes were the oldest script ever used by the ancient Slavs, according
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A 500-year-old copy of Leonardo da Vinci’s 16th century painting known as "Salvator Mundi" (Savior of the World) was found hidden in an
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists have presented a new, interesting interpretation of England’s famous Domesday Book. The “Domesday Book” is closely related to William The Conqueror (or “William the
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - While studying ancient paintings within Buddhist temples in northwestern China’s Mogao Caves, researchers detected ‘an ancient mistake’ in the artwork. The Mogao Grottoes, near
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Widely recognized as one of the most influential scientists of all time and a key figure in the scientific revolution Isaac Newton was
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Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Cambridge University Library has announced that two notebooks written by Charles Darwin, worth many millions of pounds are missing, believed to have
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Leonardo Da Vinci (1452 – 1519) was one of the greatest minds of the Renaissance. His inventions, paintings, and sculptures are today admired
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - This remarkable painting comes from the second century when Egypt was a Roman province, hence the portraits are more lifelike and less hieroglyphic-like
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - In medieval times, it was very expensive to make parchments, so leaves were regularly scraped or erased and re-used over and over again.
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Have you ever wondered what Europe smells like? Most likely it’s not something we think about on daily basis, but a group of
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