Maya activity more than 2,000 years ago not only contributed to the decline of their environment but continues to influence today’s environmental conditions, researchers at The University of Texas at Austin say. Synthesizing old and new data, researchers have for
Last fragment of early Christian christogram dated to the 6th century AD, has been discovered in the so-called Bishop’s Basilica in the ancient city of Parthicopolis in southwestern Bulgaria. It consists of a monogram of letters standing for the name
AncientPages.com – Archeologists working in Turkey’s eastern province of Van have uncovered 2,800-year-old pithos, or large ceramic storage containers, that once contained grain, oil and wine in the ruins of Çavustepe Castle built by Urartu King Sarduri II. “The storeroom
AncientPages.com -Dr Martin Bates from the University of Wales Trinity Saint David will take deep sea core samples to find the DNA of Doggerland, where humans lived in Doggerland from around 10,000 BC until it was flooded at the end
Cacao and holly beverages, which were both high in caffeine – were really valued by the people in the eighth century, living in what is now the Southwestern United States and Northwestern Mexico. A new paper published in the Proceedings
Sillustani, a site about 35 miles from the shore city of Puno, is a pre-Incan site that consists of a group of the most impressive huge, cylindrical towers called “Chullpa. These mysterious ancient burial towers were built by the Colla people
AncientPages.com – A treasure of 2,976 silver Roman coins from the 1st-2nd century AD has been discovered by archaeologists during the excavations of the ruins of the Ancient Thracian and Roman city of Serdica in the downtown of the Bulgarian
AncientPages.com – The ‘Standard of Ur’ is a Sumerian artifact excavated from what had been the Royal Cemetery in the ancient city of Ur (located in modern-day Iraq south of Baghdad). This enigmatic artifact is a small trapezoidal box (8.5
A Shiva temple, said to be at least 500 years old, lies abandoned and on the verge of disintegration. It is built on an acre of land over a a rock formation inside a scrub forest at Chinnaariyapatti near here.
Stone monoliths found buried near Stonehenge could have been part of the largest neolithic monument built in Britain, archaeologists believe. The 4,500-year-old stones, some measuring 15ft (4.5m) in length, were discovered under 3ft of earth at Durrington Walls “superhenge”. The
An early Christian crypt, among the largest in the Balkans, has been discovered by archaeologists near the Zaldapa Fortress close to the village of Krushari in Bulgaria’s Dobrich municipality, it was announced on September 4 2015. The crypt was found
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Does an ancient lost city exist on the shores of Lake Vostok? It is possible that a remnant of a highly advanced civilization still remain in warmer underground caverns of Antarctica? Why did the Nazis launch
