Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Today, two ancient scientists, Eratosthenes Of Cyrene and Posidonius of Rhodes are famous for their attempts to calculate the circumference of the Earth. As previously

AncientPages.com - The discovery of Czarist officer's corpse in Turkey has led to a dispute between Russia and Poland. Both countries claim the body and Turkey is busy trying

AncientPages.com - Egyptian coffins have indeed a long history. The oldest ones are more than 5000 years old and and they originate from the times, the state of the

AncientPages.com - Remains of a Graeco-Roman temple dated to the Greco-Roman period (332 BC - 395 AD) have  been unearthed  at the Al-Salam archaeological site, about 50km east of the

AncientPages.com - Researchers have discovered 400-year-old documents that reveal Tadatoshi Hosokawa, a 17th-century lord of Kyusyu, Japan, ordered his people to produce opium for medical purposes. A description of

AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have unearthed the ruins of a 4,000-year-old Sumerian port in Mesopotamia, modern Iraq. It’s a major discovery that could shed more light on the great climate

AncientPages.com - Nicknamed the ‘Robin Hood of the Seas’, legendary English pirate Black Sam operated in the early 18th century. As Ancient Pages reported earlier, in February this year, researchers

AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating in Dublin have discovered 11th-century Viking village with graffiti and unique artifacts. According to researchers, the discovery is an “extraordinary find”.  As previously mentioned on

AncientPages.com - It’s not easy to find footprints from the last Ice Age in an area that is today covered by dense forest, but archaeologists have discovered as many

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Fenrir (the Wolf) is the oldest of three terrible children of Loki, according to the literary works Poetic Edda (the Icelandic medieval manuscript known

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The Völuspá, the first poem in the Codex Regius of the Poetic Edda, is one of the most outstanding literary achievements in the

AncientPages.com - A 6th century hidden medical text from a book by the Greek-Roman doctor Galen, has been found with the help of X-ray technology. The words had been

AncientPages.com - In 2003, a tiny, mummified skeleton was discovered in the Atacama Desert behind a Church. It was so unusual that the discovery sparked international interest. The six-inch

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com -  Modern humans co-existed and interbred not only with Neanderthals, but also with a related archaic population, we known today as Denisovans. Researchers unexpectedly

AncientPages.com - The history of Malta has been re-written. Scientists have evidence that the first people to inhabit Malta arrived 700 years earlier than previously thought. Analysis of ancient