AncientPages.com - Last year, archaeologists discovered the original shrine belonging to Viking King Olaf Haraldsson who was declared a saint in 1031. St. Olaf, as he is now known,

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists from the University of Bonn are working to restore valuable 4th-century tunics attributed to St. Ambrose. In a few days they will return

AncientPages.com - Skrydstrup Woman was found on the Skrydstrup field, one kilometer sourthwest of Vojens in southern Denmark. The discovery was made in 1935. She was buried around 1300

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - It is said that prehistoric Skara Brae, which is older than Stonehenge and the Great Pyramids of Egypt, was home to the “little people.”

AncientPages.com - Excavations carried out  at the ancient site of Çatalhöyük in Central Anatolia, Turkey, have revealed many interesting finds. “Last year, we carried out works with a core

AncientPages.com - A new study of the DNA reveals that the indigenous groups living today in the region of southern Alaska, are descendants of the first humans who came

AncientPages.com - During excavations in the ancient Italian city of Poseidonia, archaeologists have discovered the remains of a massive building and invaluable ceramics imported from Greece. Haaretz reports that

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Sacsayhuamán is undoubtedly one of the most impressive and mysterious fortresses of the Andes. The stonework of Sacsayhuamán was created by extremely skilled stonemasons and we

AncientPages.com - On April 10-11, 1815, more than 13,000 feet high, Tambora Mount in Indonesia exploded, killing about 92000 people and changing the global climate. Tambora's powerful eruption

AncientPages.com - On April 9, 1747, the Scottish Jacobite Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat, became the last man in Britain to be publicly beheaded at Tower Hill, London. The last

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - These artifacts are very controversial because they appear to be much too advanced for their time. Approximately 200 metallic spheres in size from 2.2

AncientPages.com - While excavating in British Columbia, archaeologists have unearthed a 14-year-old settlement that is only much older than the Roman Empire and the Egyptian pyramids, but also confirms

AncientPages.com - Two interesting anomalies have been discovered in Rapa, Poland’s most famous pyramid. Identical to the Egyptian pyramids, but much younger, the pyramid is located in the small

AncientPages.com - On April 7, 451, Attila the Hun, who reigned 434-453 CE, captured and plundered the city of Metz - Roman's stronghold. Without any opposition, he massacred the

AncientPages.com - Michelangelo (1475 – 1564), painter, sculptor and one of the greatest artists of all time, often secretly inserted pagan symbols into his works of art. Many of them were

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Many ancient civilizations believed spirits lived in sacred places such as trees, mountains, and stones. One such place is the mysterious Vottovarra Mountain

AncientPages.com - The oldest aqueduct in Rome has been discovered during constructions works in the center of the city. The aqueduct dates back to the 3rd century BC and

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Valkyries are essential in poems and stories about legendary hero-warriors in Norse mythology. Riding on horses to battlefields and escorting the souls of dead

AncientPages.com - Several chamber-graves have been unearthed in the hamlet of Hørning near Skanderborg in Jutland, Denmark. “The artefacts that we’ve already found are exquisite gilded fittings from a

AncientPages.com - The remains of a 13th Dynasty pyramid have been unearthed by an Egyptian archaeological mission excavating in an area to the north of King Snefru's Bent Pyramid

AncientPages.com - On May 3, 752, Bird Jaguar IV (also called Yaxun B’alam IV) was a Mayan king from Yaxchilan (modern-day Chiapas), located on the banks of the river Usumacinta,