graves Archive

Neolithic Megalithic Graves In Central And Northern Europe Of The Wartberg Culture Are Not Plague Victims

Megalithic Structures Are Not Mass Graves For Neolithic Plague Victims

AncientPages.com | September 9, 2024

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Since the catastrophic pandemics of the Middle Ages, one disease has almost proverbially symbolized contagion and death: the plague. It is now established

Archaeology

Forgotten Graves Of The Knights Templar In Staffordshire Discovered By A Historian?

AncientPages.com | August 19, 2023

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A historian says he has discovered several graves belonging to members of the Knights Templar at a village church in Staffordshire, UK. Historian

Archaeology

Ancient People In Peru Had A Unique Response To The Looting And Destruction Of Their Ancestors’ Graves

AncientPages.com | February 3, 2022

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Ancient Indigenous people in Peru had a unique response to the looting and destruction of their ancestors’ graves during the European colonial period,

Archaeology

Magnificent Chamber Graves Of Four Scandinavian Warriors Discovered In Poland – The Piast Dynasty In New Light

AncientPages.com | January 22, 2020

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Chamber graves filled with precious artifacts belonging to four Scandinavian warriors have been discovered in Poland. The finding is of great historical importance

Archaeology

Medieval Cemetery Unearthed By Polish Archaeologists In Sicily Belonged To The Normans

AncientPages.com | July 18, 2018

AncientPages.com - Several over 800 year-old graves that could belong to the Normans, have been unearthed by Polish archaeologists excavating a medieval cemetery near the medieval church of San

Three smaller stone chambers typical of this period that were used to bury people. Photo: Julie Gloppe Solem, NTNU

Archaeology

3,000-Year-Old Graves With Some Oldest Burial Sites Discovered in Central Norway

AncientPages.com | December 8, 2017

AncientPages.com - 3,000-year-old graves have been unearthed in central Norway by archaeologists from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology Museum. Archaeologists consider them some of the oldest burial sites

Archaeology

Surprising Discovery Reveals Why Medieval Graves Were Re-Opened – Stealing Was Not The Purpose

AncientPages.com | May 24, 2017

AncientPages.com - During the Middle Ages, many graves were re-opened. It has previously been assumed that this was because thieves wanted to steal valuable items such as jewellery and

Representation of Khety in his tomb (tomb 17)

Civilizations

Rock-Cut Tombs Of Beni Hasan With Spells, Prayers To Osiris And Anubis And Map To Underworld

AncientPages.com | February 3, 2017

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The rock-cut tombs of an ancient Egyptian cemetery, Beni Hasan, were mainly used during the Middle Kingdom, from 21st to 17th century BC. Entrance to

Graves of men are shaped pointy like viking ships or as a triangle, while women's graves are round or oval.

Lindholm Høje Burial Site With 700 Graves Dated To The Iron And Viking Ages

AncientPages.com | November 17, 2016

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Lindholm Høje is an Iron Age and Viking Age burial site just North of Aalborg and Nørresundby on the South slope of Voerbjerg Hill

Archaeology

Ancient Graves That Date Back To Pre-Vijaya Era Discovered In Sri Lanka

AncientPages.com | October 21, 2015

AncientPages.com - In the ancient cemetery at Ibbankatuwa in Dambulla, located in the Matale District, Central Province of Sri Lanka, archaeologists unearthed graves that date back to the

Civilizations

Fascinating Millennia Old Natufian Culture: Funerals With Flowers, Food And Pounding Sound Of Mortars

AncientPages.com | August 22, 2015

AncientPages.com - The Natufians, who existed 15,000 – 11,500 years ago, represented a fascinating ancient culture. These people lived in there region known as the Levant (modern Palestine, Israel,