Conny Waters – MessageToEagle.com – Archaeologists from the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia and the University of Münster have made a groundbreaking discovery of a previously unknown
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com –The ‘Valley of Thracian Kings’ is an extraordinary place with numerous burial mounds (tumuli) containing the Thracian rulers’ and high aristocrats’ tombs and graves.
Jan Bartek – MessageToEagle.com – A late medieval loop for hanging keys or a purse was found near Kamień Pomorski, a town in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship of
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 manuport
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – Modern navigation instruments were unknown to Vikings, and they relied on own senses, celestial bodies, birds, swells, whales, chants, and rhymes to navigate the seas
Jan Bartek – MessageToEagle.com – Recently declared a treasure, it takes one look to realize this Bronze Age ring is unusual. The ancient gold ring was found by
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – The so-called Nomoli figures were found in Sierra Leone, West Africa. The Nomoli are mysterious stone figures from 2,500 years to approximately 15,000 BC
Conny Waters – MessageToEagle.com – A unique 1,000-year-old medieval golden treasure was unearthed by a Dutch historian, who stumbled upon it while using a metal detector. Part of
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – A remarkable collection of religious items from diverse lands was unearthed during archaeological excavations on the Swedish island of Helgö in 1954. Located
Conny Waters – MessageToEagle.com – A surprising discovery was made in the Field Museum in Chicago, US. An ancient sword that sat inside the Field Museum for nearly 100
Jan Bartek – MessageToEagle.com – Dutch fishermen onboard the shrimp cutter Wieringer 22 were astonished, to say the least, when they fished up a strange wooden statue. The
Jan Bartek – MessageToEagle.com – One does not have to be a trained archaeologist to find something of great historical value. A young boy discovered a very rare
Conny Waters – MessageToEagle.com – One of the most magnificent and valuable ancient treasures of its time is the Bactrian Hoard. Discovered in the graves belonging to six
Jan Bartek – MessageToEagle.com – Hundreds of ancient finds, including rare bone and ivory artifacts from the biblical period, were seized during an operation by the Antiquities Authority’s
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – Many legendary weapons have been described in ancient documents and books. Some were authentic weapons, and others gained a mythical status that inspired
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – The Kanishka Casket (known as the Kanishka reliquary) is a beautiful Buddhist treasure of gilded copper. The relic dates back to the first
Conny Waters – MessageToEagle.com – Researchers at UCL have solved a major piece of the puzzle that makes up the ancient Greek astronomical calculator known as the Antikythera
Conny Waters – MessageToEagle.com – The world’s oldest example of a knotted-pile carpet and is the one kept at the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia. The
Conny Waters – MessageToEagle.com – An ancient idol of Vishnumurthy (or Janardhana, which is another name of Lord Vishnu) was found in an abandoned well in the vicinity of
Conny Waters – MessageToEagle.com – A rare and valuable collection of 651 silver coins belonging to the Roman period was discovered in the ancient city of Aizanoi, located
Jan Bartek – MessageToEagle.com – The rare, 2,700-year-old seal of Biblical King Jeroboam II’s servant has long been considered a forgery, but new chemical analysis proves the bulla’s
Conny Waters – MessageToEagle.com – A six-foot-tall statue of a female figure who may represent an elite woman rather than a goddess, or some mixture of the two,
Conny Waters – MessageToEagle.com – More than 12,000 years ago, people developed a sophisticated technique for making a play dough-like material from mammoth ivory. This prehistoric technique enabled
Jan Bartek – MessageToEagle.com – Many treasure hunters spend years searching for something valuable, but sometimes the most precious ancient objects can be discovered by those who don’t
