Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A series of exciting inscriptions, almost invisible to the naked eye, have been discovered in the margins of an important eighth-century manuscript in the Bodleian Library, MS Selden Supra 30. Revealed through state-of-the-art 3D recording
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The remains of two medieval merchant vessels, known as cogs, were discovered over the summer in Varberg in Sweden, during an archaeological excavation. They have now been securely dated for the first time, and analyses
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The Louisiana State University (LSU) Campus Mounds sit on high ground overlooking the Mississippi River floodplain and have been a gathering place and destination for people for thousands of years. They are some of the
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Ever since Heinrich Schliemann discovered Priam’s Treasure in Troy in 1873, the origin of the gold has been a mystery, but a new study sheds light on this old riddle. The gold in objects from Troy,
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A well-preserved 3,000-year-old scarab seal was accidentally discovered during a school trip in Israel. The ancient Egyptian stone amulet depicts the bestowal of legitimacy to a ruler. The ancient amulet and impression seal was discovered during
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com -Ancient owl-shaped slate engraved plaques, dating from about 5,000 years ago in the Iberian Peninsula, may have been created by children as toys. About 4,000 engraved slate plaques resembling owls—with two engraved circles for eyes and a
AncientPages.com – A little over a year ago we reported on a large area at the foot of the Asperillo cliff, on the coast of the Doñana Natural Area in Huelva, Spain. There, along with numerous animal footprints, other footprints had
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists report they have made an exceptional discovery in Peru. An ancient fresco that has been lost for over a century has been rediscovered. Scientists have previously seen the fresco depicting mythological scenes in old black-and-white
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – New evidence, helping to form a 15th-century reconstruction of part of Westminster Abbey, demonstrates how a section of the building was once the focus for the royal family’s devotion to the cult of a disemboweled
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – More than 2,000 years before the Titanic sunk in the North Atlantic Ocean, another famous ship wrecked in the Mediterranean Sea off the eastern shores of Uluburun—in present-day Turkey— carrying tons of rare metal. Since
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Flint tools discovered over 50 years ago in Cave Tunel Wielki (Małopolska) are half a million years old and among the oldest man-made objects in today’s Poland. Flint artefacts from Cave Tunel Wielki, made half
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Based on ancient written sources it is known that Adrian von Bubenberg came on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1466. More than five centuries later, in a research project documenting pilgrims’ inscriptions, Michael
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The sustainable development of agriculture has laid a solid foundation for the birth of human civilization and countries. Early agriculture has long been a focus of archaeology. China is the only country in the world
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A 1000-year-old silver hoard containing several beautiful torque-style neck rings, arm rings, and coins has been discovered in Viggbyholm, Täby, outside Stockholm. “This is something you probably only experience once in a lifetime,” says Maria
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A humerus analyzed by the UPV/EHU’s Human Evolutionary Biology group belonged to a specimen that lived in the Paleolithic period, 17,000 years ago. Selection of different dog breeds from Johnson’s household book of nature. Credit:
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists report they have made more amazing finds at the Roman villa site in Rutland, UK. Dating back to the third or fourth century A.D., the villa complex was first discovered on farmland in 2020.
