Ancient Artifacts
Thousands of intriguing ancient artifacts have been discovered world-wide. Some of these ancient artifacts give us a deeper understanding of our ancestors’ customs, traditions, beliefs, level of technology and scientific achievements. Many of the artifacts are also mysterious and puzzling because we haven’t yet been able to determine their true purpose.
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The enigmatic tale of the "Lost Colony" of Roanoke and Sir Walter Raleigh's early explorers remains one of American history's most captivating unsolved
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have made a remarkable discovery during their research at the Camerimage film center construction site in Toruń, Poland. The excavation team has
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Stone of Destiny, more commonly referred to as the Stone of Scone, is an enigmatic block of sandstone that has played a
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The discovery of this captivating miniature clay token has remained unpublished for over a decade since its unearthing by the Temple Mount Sifting Project.
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The carbonized Herculaneum papyrus has yielded a remarkable discovery, with over 1000 words, constituting 30% of the text that emerged from this ancient
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Recent archaeological excavations in Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt, Germany, have yielded a significant discovery – a stone figure depicting a Roman deity, which represents a
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Children are often curious by nature, and they tend to pay attention to things adults would not even bother looking at. The world
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating on Jiigurru/Lizard Island off the Queensland coast have unearthed the oldest pottery ever found in Australia. The find is highly significant
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Two amateur archaeologists in Denmark have made a remarkable discovery. While surveying with a metal detector in a field near Ringsted, located on
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have recently focused their study on a beautiful artifact dated to the ancient Etruscan civilization that inhabited Etruria in ancient Italy. Underside
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Vindelev treasure is remarkable in many ways. The more scientists investigate it, the more surprised they are. With 800 grams of real
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - During an excavation in Oxfordshire, England, archaeologists discovered the remains of a significant Roman villa complex. The site is situated in the village
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Examining historical books, manuscripts, and rare scrolls provides a distinctive insight into the lives and beliefs of our ancestors. Occasionally, these ancient documents can
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Some of the earliest evidence of ice skating comes from Scandinavia. About 4,000 years ago, people in southern Finland used bone skates to
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A late medieval loop for hanging keys or a purse was found near Kamień Pomorski, a town in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship of
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A pair of beautiful bracelets, now declared Roman treasure, has been discovered on the Isle of Anglesey, Wales, United Kingdom. The two copper alloy
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists are interested in so-called manuports for several reasons. Derived from the Latin words "manus," meaning "hand," and "portare," meaning "to carry," a
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - During a field search in the Borki forest in Masuria, Poland, local history enthusiasts discovered intriguing Roman-era artifacts. The society Wendrusz Historical and
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - More than 100 ornaments buried in ancient graves dated to about 11,000 years have been unearthed by archaeologists from Ankara University. These artifacts
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - While excavating on excavation the banks of the Brazos River in southeastern Texas, archaeologists have uncovered more than 10,000 artifacts from Washington-on-the-Brazos, a
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Trevor Penny, an amateur fisherman from Oxfordshire, UK, had quite the surprise when he pulled up a rusty metal object from the River
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - For the past two years, archaeologists have excavated in the Old Town of Kalmar, Sweden. Recently, at a press conference held at Kalmar
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A medieval pilgrim's badge depicting a basilisk dragon in a circle enclosed was found in Wólka Nieliska, Zamość district, in southeastern Poland. Image credit:
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A remarkable discovery was made using a metal detector during an archaeological expedition in Vilnius castle in Lithuania. The archaeologists unearthed a rectangular
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Erez Avrahamov, a 45-year-old inhabitant of Peduel, made an incredible discovery while hiking in the Tabor Stream Nature Reserve located in Lower Galilee.
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A few years ago, archaeologists excavating an Iron Age site known as Irulegi in northern Spain discovered a flat bronze artifact shaped like
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The beautiful Treasure of Villenna was discovered in 1963 by archaeologist José María Soler in the sands of a dry riverbed in Villena,
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The exploration of caves and hidden underground tunnels offers an experience similar to stepping into a mysterious realm. One never knows what can
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The rope is one of the oldest human tools, and it played a crucial role in the daily lives of many ancient civilizations.
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Long considered impossible to decipher, we can now finally learn the truth about the mysterious code found hidden in an old silk dress
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Ulfberht swords were famous for their strength, flexibility, and high-tech blades. Viking warriors highly prized these weapons, which were extraordinarily valuable because of
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - When museum inspector and archaeologist Jakob Bonde dug up a 2,000-year-old knife with a runic inscription from a burial ground near Odense on
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - For the first time in almost 2,000 years, the public will have an opportunity to see an incredible Roman arm guard. This ancient
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The centaur head was given to the Danish King Christian V as a gift in 1688. The Danish Captain who served in the
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - It often takes patience and time to solve ancient enigmas. Scientists have tried for over a century to decipher a mysterious inscription etched
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists have investigated one of the most unusual late-Roman metalware ever discovered in the British Isles. The Knaresborough Hoard was discovered about 1864,
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers of China's Tsinghua University have published the results of new research focused on five sets of bamboo slips, in which the rites
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists from Masaryk University in Brno, a city in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic, have made an extraordinary discovery. The
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com -A metal detectorist found a rare gold coin in the mountains in Vestre Slidre municipality depicting two emperors and Jesus Christ. Archaeologists are now
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Our long-gone ancestors, the Neanderthals, did not differ that much from modern humans. Like us, the Neanderthals were curious about the world around
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A beautiful small Roman copper-alloy tortoise figurine has been recovered by a local metal detector user near Wickham Skeith, Suffolk, UK. Tortoises or
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Found in a field, near Horsham St Faith north of Norwich, UK, by a metal detectorist this beautiful seal matrix has been hailed
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