Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Once, a long time ago, there was a very precious herb in the ancient city of Cyrene, a Greek city on the North African
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – Ogham is very old writing of which the earliest examples date back to 2200 BC. The language of the inscriptions is Irish, but
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – One of the most mysterious Biblical passages deals with the story of the witch of Endor. It’s a fascinating story that can be
Conny Waters – MessageToEagle.com – No matter what place or time, people have always studied the stars and other celestial objects. Archaeologists have discovered thousands of years old
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – The ancient city of Kussara has never been found, but there is no reason to doubt its existence. Located somewhere in Anatolia, the
Conny Waters – MessageToEagle.com – The great Renaissance genius Leonardo da Vinci (1452 -1519) is long gone, but a new DNA study reveals he has 14 living male
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – There is a fascinating and entirely different megalithic site known as Namoratunga. The site is located on the west side of Lake Turkana,
Jan Bartek – MessageToEagle.com – A 51,000-ear-old bone carving engraved with symbols offers evidence the Neanderthals were not as primitive as previously thought and it is time to
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Located in the heart of Baku, Azerbaijan, the Maiden Tower is the city’s most mysterious and impressive ancient structure. Being 29.5 meters (97
Conny Waters – MessageToEagle.com – Scientists have reconstructed the Eastern Mediterranean silver trade, over a period including the traditional dates of the Trojan War, the founding of Rome,
Conny Waters – MessageToEagle.com – A cache of fossilized shark teeth unearthed in a 2900-year-old site in the City of David in Jerusalem is an ancient puzzle to
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – Among the fabled objects in Greek mythology, a precious piece of jewelry is known to bring misfortune to all its owners or wearers.
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The beautiful Golosov Lavine has always been a strange and mysterious place. It is said a puzzling time-warping mist occasionally appears over the
Jan Bartek – MessageToEagle.com – Archaeologists excavating in Mississippi report unearthing a rare trove of ancient metal objects that may have been left by the Spaniards when the
Conny Waters – MessageToEagle.com – The Hittites studied the night sky with the same interest as any other ancient civilization. As previously reported on Ancient Pages, scientists suggested
Conny Waters – MessageToEagle.com – Several years ago, two amateur archaeologists from Brabant discovered over a hundred Roman coins near Berlicum in the north of the province. Berlicum
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – The Barabar Caves are the oldest surviving rock-cut caves in India. Mostly dated to the Maurya Empire (322-185 BC), they were carved out
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Researchers studied the movement of people at a Bronze Age city Alalakh (Tell Atchana) in present-day southeastern Turkey, during the period from 1600-1200 BC,
Jan Bartek – MessageToEagle.com -The horrible global epidemic of the bubonic plague known as the Black Death struck Europe and Asia from 1347 to 1352 C.E and caused the
Conny Waters – MessageToEagle.com – Archaeologists working at an excavation site near Järvensuo in southwest Finland have discovered a 4,000-year-old wooden stick shaped like a snake. The sculpture
Conny Waters – MessageToEagle.com – Knowing the weight of a commodity provides an objective way to value goods in the marketplace. But did a self-regulating market even exist
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Being a Pharaoh in ancient Egypt could be as honorable, prestigious, as dangerous. At the end of his rule, everything went wrong for
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The world is full of wonderful, beautiful, and mysterious places. One of them is a lake called Llyn Y Dywarchen. Located in Gwynedd,
Conny Waters – MessageToEagle.com – Researchers have identified remains of a new, previously unknown type of ‘Homo’ who lived in the region at the Nesher Ramla site side
Conny Waters – MessageToEagle.com – When saber-toothed tigers, woolly mammoths, and giant sloths roamed North America during the last Ice Age about 18,000 to 80,000 years ago, the