Conny Waters – MessageToEagle.com – The Hittites lived in Anatolia some 3,500 years ago. They used clay tablets to keep records of state treaties and decrees, prayers, myths,
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Named after Alexander the Great this legendary place remains as mysterious as fascinating. Locals call it Zendan-e Eskandar and the original purpose of
Conny Waters – MessageToEagle.com – Today many modern parents visit shops to buy toys for children. Ancient people also wanted their kids to have something fun to play
Conny Waters – MessageToEagle.com – The fragments of various storage jars of different types and sizes had been uncovered over the years, and they played an important role
Conny Waters – MessageToEagle.com – A Canadian woman has sent back to Italy five artifacts she stole from Pompeii in 2005, during her visit to Pompeii, the ancient
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Iranian archaeologists have found an ancient settlement in the northwestern part of the country, near Beygush Tepe, an archaeological site in Chaldoran county,
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – All Maya regulated their lives by the sacred calendar and their belief that supernatural beings had the power to intervene in human affairs
Conny Waters – MessageToEagle.com – Ball games are one of the most popular leisure activities in the world. Not only are ball games an important form of mass
Conny Waters – MessageToEagle.com – An ancient gold earring was found during excavations at the site of the Ancient Roman colony Deultum near the town of Debelt, Burgas
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Vikings are often portrayed as lawless individuals who did whatever they wished whether it was wrong or not. It’s true there were troublemakers
Conny Waters – MessageToEagle.com – The loss of tropical rainforests and grasslands that once dominated Southeast Asia caused the extinction of many of the region’s megafauna, and probably
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The Great Sphinx of Giza, Machu Picchu, Stonehenge, Moai statues, Petra, Ephesus, and many, many other magnificent ancient sites can be added to
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – Sinaloa’s rocks covered with a variety of figures are true history rocks, a legacy of mythological traditions with roots in the Pre-columbian times
Jan Bartek – MessageToEagle.com – Ancient Romans understood the value of salt. Salt was a scarce and expensive commodity, and its value was legendary. In fact, “the word
Conny Waters – MessageToEagle.com – In a careful interdisciplinary study of rare shields finds, researchers are finally able to reveal the last piece of the puzzle of how
Conny Waters – MessageToEagle.com – Throughout its history, the ancient city of Patara on Turkey’s Mediterranean coast, was a region combining various nations and cultures. Image credit: AA
Conny Waters – MessageToEagle.com – Archaeologists have found a burial of an Anglo-Saxon warlord in Berkshire that could redraw the map of post-Roman Britain. It could also change
Conny Waters – MessageToEagle.com – More than 2,000-year-old burial complex has been excavated in the south of Khakassia by a team of Siberian archaeologists. Left: Individual burial of
Conny Waters – MessageToEagle.com – A workshop for smelting copper ore once operated in the Neveh Noy neighborhood of Beer Sheva, the capital of the Negev Desert, according
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – The role of cupbearer goes back many thousands of years, and many prominent figures held it. At the royal courts and in the
Conny Waters – MessageToEagle.com – The cathedral in Odense, Denmark, has for nine centuries held the relics of the Danish King St. Canute the Holy and his brother
Conny Waters – MessageToEagle.com – An Egyptian archaeological mission uncovered an impressive collection of 59 intact and sealed coffins at Saqqara Necropolis south of Cairo. Image credit: Reuters
Conny Waters – MessageToEagle.com – A carved statue of the god Nefertum was unearthed in Saqqara necropolis alongside a group of intact wooden coffins. The Egyptian archaeologists excavating
Conny Waters – MessageToEagle.com – Egyptian archaeologists have uncovered a number of ancient Egyptian artifacts in a burial well in Minya Governorate. The findings include a limestone coffin,
Conny Waters – MessageToEagle.com – Stone animals such as stone lions and stone rams were placed on top of the tombstones of brave and courageous people as a
