AncientPages.com – On September 3, 36 BC, the naval Battle of Naulochus was fought between the fleets of Sextus Pompeius and Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, off Naulochus, near Messina, Sicily. The rebel, Sextus Pompeius was defeated by Agrippa in this sea
AncientPages.com – The ‘Thirteen Towers of Chankillo’ run north to south along a low ridge and form an artificial toothed horizon that spanned – almost exactly – the annual rising and setting arcs of the Sun, according to a study.
A mysterious, well preserved 2,000-year-old pyramid-shaped staircase constructed of large ashlar stones was recently uncovered by the Antiquities Authority on an ancient street in the City of David, adjacent to the destroyed Second Temple, according to announcement. The structure was
What was it like to actually live in ancient Egypt as an ordinary person 3,500 years ago? This is an interesting video presented by BBC and Egyptologist Dr Joann Fletcher who makes this goes fascinating journey in search of people
Ancient Pages.com – On the morning of 2 September 31 BC, the fleets of Roman Mark Antony and Cleopatra, queen of Egypt met the fleet of Octavian leader just outside the Gulf of Actium in Greece. Antony’s ships were built mainly
AncientPages.com – During the latest excavations at the archaeological site of Kerameikos in Athens, archaeologists of the German Archaeological Institute discovered an ancient well probably used for hydromancy rituals. This significant and unexpected discovery was made after an inverted marble
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – A wooden statue pulled from a peat bog in Russia more than a hundred years ago is now believed to be twice as old as Stonehenge. The Shigir Idol, which found in the Ural Mountains
Two lead coffins containing the remains of French nobility who died centuries ago have been dicovered in the city square of Flers, a Norman town located in the Orne department of Basse-Normandie in northern France. The bodies laid dormant for centuries
A team of Greek and Swiss underwater archaeologists have discovered the remnants of a Bronze Age Greek village, now covered by the Mediterranean Sea and within sight of the nearby Lambayanna beach, Kiladha Bay on the Peloponnese Peninsula south of
The world’s oldest bible, The Codex Sinaiticus, will be lent by the British Library to the British Museum for an exhibition covering 1,200 years of Christian, Islamic and Jewish faith in Egypt after the Pharaohs. The world’s oldest bible dates
AncientPages.com – Research into 430,000-year-old fossils collected in northern Spain found that the evolution of the human body’s size and shape has gone through four main stages, according to a paper published this week. A large international research team including
The research, led by Dr Matteo Borrini, forensic anthropologist and principal lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU), applied forensic techniques on the remains to reconstruct the features of the mummy known as ‘Kent.’ The mummy was a high ranking
