AncientPages.com – Armenia is one of the oldest countries in the world. Scientific researches, archaeological findings, old cuneiform inscriptions, ancient maps and even the Holy Bible provide lots of evidence that the Armenian Highland is the craddle of human civilization. In
AncientPages.com – The International Symposium “Cycladica in Crete: Cycladic and Cycladicizing figurines within their archaeological context” will take place on Thursday 1st and Friday 2nd October 2015 at the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens. The purpose of the Symposium on the Cycladic and
AncientPages.com – Remains of at least 50 people, all believed to date from 11th and early 12th century, have beeen discovered during demolition work to make space for new tower. The bones of men who may have witnessed the tumultuous
AncientPages.com – A Bronze Age burial site has recently been discovered in Azerbaijan. Parviz Gasimov, an official at the Archeology and Ethnography Institute of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences confirmed that the “Karabakh” archaeological expedition headed by Hidayet Jafarov
AncientPages.com – An international team of researchers led by André Strauss of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, presents evidence for a 9,000 year-old case of human decapitation that has been found in the rock shelter
AncientPages.com – A British archaeological team from the Field Museum and Oxford University conducted excavations between 1923 and 1929 in Kish City, 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of Baghdad. Since then, no other excavations have been made in the city, which
AncientPages.com – Nearly 50 people living in a cave and living off passing travellers by robbing, killing, butchering and eating them. The legend of Alexander Sawney Bean, and his clan of 48, has been a staple of Scottish folklore since the
AncientPages.com – The Egyptian Antiquities Ministry granted preliminary approval for the use of a non-invasive radar to verify a theory that Queen Nefertiti’s crypt may be hidden behind King Tutankhamun’s 3,300-year-old tomb in the famous Valley of the Kings, a
AncientPages.com – Archaeologists may have finally uncovered the lost tomb of the Maccabees – Matityahu the Hasmonean and his five sons, from the ancient city of Modi’in – who led a successful rebellion against Greek rule in the second century
AncientPages.com – On Sep 23, 1459 – the first major battle in the English Wars of the Roses was at Blore Heath, two miles east of Market Drayton in Shropshire, England. The Wars of the Roses refers to a conflict
AncientPages.com – On Sep 22, 480 BC the battle in the Greco-Persian Wars was fought. In this battle a Greek fleet defeated much larger Persian naval forces in the straits at Salamis, between the island of Salamis and the Athenian
AncientPages.com – Work is continuing to open a previously hidden tunnel that was discovered during the restoration of Tokat Castle, known as the dungeon of Dracula. The tunnel in the northern province of Tokat, known as Ceylanyolu, is estimated to
