AncientPages.com – Many famous artists had hidden secrets messages or other details beneath their paintings. One of them was world famous painter and sculptor Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) who deliberately changed certain things during the painting process. Using an X-ray fluorescence imaging
AncientPages.com – Excavations near Old Deer have unearthed a hearth and a thick layer of charcoal, with carbon testing dating the objects to between 1147 and 1260, which chimes with the later monastic period. The discovery of a layer of stone
AncientPages.com – Nepali art history will have to be revised after the recent discovery of rock paintings in Upper Mustang, researchers say. Recently discovered ancient rock art could shed more light on history of the people of Upper Mustang, Nepal, according
AncientPages.com – Totally 28 rock art sites dating from at least 2,500 years ago have been discovered by researchers from The Australian National University (ANU). The discovery was made on a small Indonesian island of Kisar which measures just 81 square
AncientPages.com – A team of archaeologists led by professor Rubina Raja at Aarhus University, Denmark, have used CT scanning and advanced 3D-modelling to virtually ‘unfold’ the silver plate found in Jerash. “It’s the first time that it’s ever been done
AncientPages.com – Prehistoric rock paintings have been discovered near Kadiri of Anantapur district of Andhra Pradesh. The rock, locally known as Rukalagundu in Kadiri mandal, was found to have prehistoric paintings dated to Mesolithic times. Dr E. Siva Nagireddy, CEO of
AncientPages.com – 13,000 year-old engraving uncovered in Spain may depict a hunter-gatherer campsite, according to researchers Marcos García-Diez from University of the Basque Country, Spain, and Manuel Vaquero from Catalan Institute of Human Palaeoecology and Social Evolution – IPHES, Spain. It’s a
AncientPages.com – A rare medieval painting depicting Judas’ betrayal of Christ may have survived destruction at the hands of 16th century iconoclasts after being ‘recycled’ to list the Ten Commandments instead. The brightly-painted wooden panel, with details picked out in silver
AncientPages.com – Leiden Egyptologist Ben Haring has deciphered a list of words engraved on a shard of pottery from the 15th century B.C. and determined that it is an alphabetically ordered word list. The discovery has been published in the Journal of
AncientPages.com – An inscription of Vijayanagara King Bukkaraya I has been discovered near Kollur in Udupi district. This is said to be the earliest inscription of Bukkaraya found in Udupi till date. The 24 line epigraph written in Kannada script
The oldest Egyptian leather manuscript has been found in the shelves of the Egyptian museum in Cairo, where it was stored and forgotten for more than 70 years. Dating from the late Old Kingdom to the early Middle Kingdom (2300-2000
The world’s oldest bible, The Codex Sinaiticus, will be lent by the British Library to the British Museum for an exhibition covering 1,200 years of Christian, Islamic and Jewish faith in Egypt after the Pharaohs. The world’s oldest bible dates
Recent discovery of a marble slab with an important inscription about the Odrysian Kingdom will shed light on the past of the most powerful of the ancient Thracian states. The marble slab was unearthed at the site of Aquae Calidae,
Mourning rings honouring post-medieval dead, emblazoned with skulls and crosses, have been declared archaeological treasure in Wales. Post-medieval mourning is revealed in skulls and inscriptions on three rings found by archaeologists. “The skull or death’s head is a motif
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Nearly a year ago, a sacrificial altar dedicated to an unknown Pagan god, Porobonus, was discovered in Bulgaria. The limestone artifact, dating back to the first half of the 3rd century AD, was unearthed at
Previously unknown rock paintings, covering rock shelters in the Kondoa district in central Tanzania, have been discovered by Maciej Grzelczyck, archaeologist from A. Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland and winner of the Ministry of Science programme “Diamond Grant”. Grzelczyck also
