Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The riddle to solve the purpose of Stonehenge continues. It had long been thought that the famous site of Stonehenge served as an ancient calendar, given its alignment with the solstices. Now, research has identified

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – For the first time ever archaeologists have discovered water wells dating back to the Pharaonic times. The discovery was made by scientists who are part of the Egyptian Archaeological Mission working in the Tel-Kadwa region

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – An international team of scientists has discovered the existence of a long-forgotten continent they have dubbed Balkanatolia, which today covers the present-day Balkans and Anatolia. Formerly inhabited by a highly specific fauna, they believe that

 Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Cave 53, in the Qumran region delivers new surprises. A whole pottery vessel from the Early Bronze Age, one of the few ever discovered in the Judean Desert, was unexpectedly uncovered by a tourist in

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Historical buildings and relics dating back to the Middle Iron Age through to the Roman period have been unearthed by archaeologists working on National Highways A428 Black Cat to Caxton Gibbet improvement scheme in Bedfordshire,

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A young woman walks Trondheim’s streets 800 years ago, carrying a secret in her body. It’s 150 years before the plague—the Black Death—but this young women is sick with a disease that no one thought

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com –  Ancient Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun, commonly referred to as King Tut, had several cosmic jewels placed in his tomb when he died, being only 18 years. When Egyptologist Howard Carter and his team found steps that led

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A new analysis of human remains that were buried in African archaeological sites has produced the earliest DNA from the continent, telling a fascinating tale of how early humans lived, traveled and even found their

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com  – A site, Horvat Qeiyafa in the Valley of Elah, which is linked to one of the most famous biblical stories – the story of David and Goliath – has been visited by President Isaac Herzog

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – An African man who lived just 350 years ago was buried in a prehistoric shell midden in Amoreira in Portugal. This was very surprising because Amoreira and other midden sites in the Muge region are

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Mesopotamia and the Indus civilization were both urban civilizations with large, densely populated and planned cities, 6000–1990 BCE. A new thesis in archaeology points out that the ancient Indus society showed complex patterns of urbanity that

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – During routine excavations at the site of Abusir 30 km north of the Giza Plateau, excavators from the Czech Institute of Egyptology at the Charles University in Prague have discovered the largest cachette of ancient

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A new study examining the chemical makeup of iron artifacts from the Viking age aims to uncover new insights into where they came from that could reveal previously unknown information about historic events. Credit: University

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – New research released today finds that while the Knights of the Round Table have won global fame, most medieval English heroic or chivalric stories have been lost. Meanwhile, more than three-quarters of medieval stories in