Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – A new type of analysis of a spectacular 120-million-year-old fossil skeleton of the extinct early bird Jeholornis from northeastern China has revealed
Conny Waters – MessageToEagle.com – The Medieval sword was found in the sea off the Carmel coast, and it probably fell into the water during a naval battle
Jan Bartek – MessageToEagle.com – A new DNA study reveals that Luzio, the oldest human skeleton found in São Paulo state (Brazil), was a descendant of the ancestral population
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Some admired and called him a hero, but some said he was a brutal bandit and cold-blooded murderer. His charisma, extraordinary leadership skills, and
Conny Waters – MessageToEagle.com – During a search for artifacts made of meteoritic iron, archaeologists accidentally found a Bronze Age arrowhead stored in the Bern History Museum’s collection. Fig.
MessageToEagle.com – Aztec and Maya civilizations are household names – but it’s the Olmecs who are the ‘mother culture’ of ancient Mesoamerica. Jade Olmec warriors mask from Tabasco
Jan Bartek – MessageToEagle.com – An extraordinary Medieval sundial has been discovered in the old town of Marburg, Germany. Students at Marburg University had been excavating the site
Jan Bartek – MessageToEagle.com – A team of Swiss and Greek archaeologists recently completed the third season of excavations on the wreck of Antikythera. The expedition, which took
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – In 1927, a team of archaeologists led by George A. Reisner excavated at Giza, Egypt, where they unearthed a remarkable ancient treasure. The scientists
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Many have tried to find the legendary ancient golden city of Vineta, but so far, the place’s location remains an unsolved mystery. Did Vineta
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – All across the world, there are still many mysterious ancient scripts, tablets, codes, and maps that, until this day, remain undeciphered. Multiple attempts to
Jan Bartek – MessageToEagle.com – A metal detectorist in Denmark has made an intriguing archaeological find. While being out on a rainy day and searching for anything of
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – An ancient city called Idu (now Satu Qala) was long hidden beneath a mound, and a few years ago, it was finally unearthed in
Jan Bartek – MessageToEagle.com – In Norse mythology, God Odin always has his two raven companions, Hugin (Huginn) and Munin (Munnin), on his shoulders. As explained earlier on Ancient
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – Along the prominent Gila River at Butte, Arizona, lies Cochran Ghost Town and there are five very well-preserved beehive-shaped ovens standing in a row.
Jan Bartek – MessageToEagle.com – The Kushan Empire in Central Asia was one of the most influential states of the ancient world. A research team at the University
Jan Bartek – MessageToEagle.com – Where and when the first people appeared in North America is a debated subject many cannot agree on. It has previously been said
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – As previously reported on Ancient Pages, the discovery of a mysterious Viking grave in the Swedish Mountains last year was hailed as one
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Fossils reveal how ancient birds molted their feathers. Every bird you’ve ever seen— every robin, every pigeon, every penguin at the zoo— is
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – When Mount Vesuvius erupted on the morning of August 24, 79 A.D., life ended in the ancient city of Pompeii. A great cloud of
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Extinct dwarf hippos that once roamed Madagascar lived in forests rather than open grasslands preferred by common hippos on mainland Africa, researchers
Jan Bartek – MessageToEagle.com – A 2,500-year-old Phoenician shipwreck has been discovered underwater in the southeastern Spanish region of Murcia. Spanish archaeologists are now working hard to recover
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – Forgotten for millennia, the Kingdom of Mitanni was discovered in the nineteenth century, and excavations revealed fascinating facts about this unusual kingdom, which
Ellen Lloyd – MessageToEagle.com – A man digging in his garden was more than surprised when he discovered a skeleton. A human jawbone with several teeth left turned
Jan Bartek – MessageToEagle.com – Archaeologists excavating in Armenia have discovered ruins of a 3,000-year-old bakery. A Polish-American archaeology team made the find in Metsamor, where the researchers
