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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The medieval treasures including coins and jewelry that could possibly belong to a Ruthenian princess and sister-in-law of 12-century Polish king Bolesław the Wrymouth

AncientPages.com - Archaeologists unearthed a four-century-old ship wreck that used to belong to King Gustav II Adolf of Sweden has been uncovered in central Stockholm. Swedish archaeologists believe the

AncientPages.com - A 1,700-year-old Roman-era underground Mithras temple has been discovered at the at the Zerzevan Castle located in Diyarbakır's Çınar district of Turkey. Earlier, archaeologists also unearthed an underground church, an

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 - During underwater excavations near the Ak-Burun Cape, a place related to the Crimean bridge construction site, divers discovered a part of a unique,  ancient Greek terra-cotta statue,

AncientPages.com - A unique statue, possibly of Queen Tiye, the wife of King Amenhotep III and grandmother of King Tutankhamun, has been unearthed at her husband's funerary temple in

AncientPages.com - The long-lost wreck of a crusader ship and sunken cargos dating to the 13th century CE have been found in the bay of the crusader stronghold city

AncientPages.com - Rare ancient human footprints discovered on the Welsh coastline are 7,000 years old, say Cardiff University researchers. The ancient footprints of both children and adults, discovered at

AncientPages.com - A sanctuary dedicated to the god Mithra, the Indo-Iranian deity Mithra, has been just unearthed at a Roman site of Mariana, created around 100 BC and located

AncientPages.com - A large collection of boat coffin tombs dating back 2,200 years has been discovered by Chinese archeologists at a construction site in Feihu Village, Pujiang County in

AncientPages.com - On January 18, 1778,  Captain James Cook, the English explorer, became the first European to discover the Hawaiian Islands. He arrived on the Islands on his third

AncientPages.com - On 5 January 1896, an Austrian newspaper reported a discovery of a new type of radiation known today as X-rays. Wilhelm Roentgen, a German professor of physics,

AncientPages.com - On October 23, 1919, Manolis Andronikos, a Greek archaeologist, was born. Andronikos discovered the tomb of Philip II of Macedon, the father of Alexander III the Great.

AncientPages.com - Prehistoric pits, two Neolithic monuments and an Anglo-Saxon cemetery of 150 graves containing spears, knives, jewellery and bone combs have been discovered at an army site where

AncientPages.com - A new William Shakespeare First Folio, part of the original collection of 36 plays published in 1623, has been discovered on Isle of Bute, Scotland. Emma Smith, professor

AncientPages.com -  The remains of an Anglo-Saxon island - home to a Middle Saxon settlement - have been uncovered at Little Carlton near Louth, Lincolnshire by archaeologists from the

AncientPages.com - British Museum presents a Viking Hoard dating from the time of the ‘Last Kingdom’, when the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of Mercia and Wessex were fighting for their survival against

AncientPages.com - A suspected shrine that dates back to late Edo Period (1603-1867) has been discovered by underwater archaeology research group working in the area of Lake Biwako, Japan's