AncientPages.com – Apparently, power of Pharaoh Ramses is fake news. Archaeological evidence from an Egyptian excavation 200 miles east of the Libyan border has helped ruin the formidable reputation of one of the country’s most famous pharaohs – Ramses the Great. According to Dr Nicky Nielsen from the University of Manchester, the finding adds to the […]
AncientPages.com – Many skilled cryptographers have studied the Voynich Manuscript and many attempts have been made to crack the ancient code and they have failed. Now, computing scientists – Greg Kondrak and his graduate student Bradley Hauer – at the University of Alberta are using artificial intelligence to decipher this ancient document. The team hypothesized the manuscript
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – In the foothills of Turkish Kurdistan, in eastern Anatolia, there is an unusual tribe called Alevi. The mysterious Alevi do not only differ in their physical appearance compared to other people living in the region, but their religious beliefs and ceremonies reveal some intriguing aspects worth exploring further. The Alevi worship
AncientPages.com – Swedish Maritime divers discovered two shipwrecks, including one possibly dating back to the 14th century. Occasionally old vessels are found in the Baltic Sea’s graveyard with at least 100 intact old shipwrecks resting on the seabed. Most of them are from the 17th and 18th centuries, Sweden’s maritime best days. One of the recently
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AncientPages.com – A new species of dinosaur Mansourasaurus shahinae, found recently in the Sahara Desert of Egypt, will help to reconstruct the course of dinosaur evolution in Africa, researchers say. Not much is known about Africa’s land-dwelling animals at the end of the Age of Dinosaurs. The creature’s fossilized remains were unearthed by an expedition undertaken
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A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – Ancient ‘smiling faces’ are small figurines of reddish clay, associated with ancient cultures of Maya and Aztec. Usually, these ceramic sculptures were solid or hollow-bodied, small in size, sometimes larger, and always with their characteristic facial expression – a rather unnatural smile. Ritually smashed and decapitated, the figurines were often unearthed
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AncientPages.com – Archaeopteryx – the oldest bird species yet discovered – lived about 150 million years ago in what is now Northern Bavaria, Germany. Archaeopteryx has long been accepted as a transitional form between birds and reptiles, and the earliest known bird. All the bones of Archaeopteryx so far recovered, were found in the Altmühl River valley of Northern Bavaria. Geologically,
AncientPages.com – One of the earliest examples of a ‘crayon’, which was probably used by our ancestors 10,000 years ago is an interesting discovery made by archaeologists from the University of York. The ochre crayon was discovered near an ancient lake, now blanketed in peat, near Scarborough, North Yorkshire. An ochre pebble was found at another
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – In 1925 Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett, one of Britain’s greatest explorers vanished in Brazil. Colonel Fawcett who was searching for the mysterious ancient Lost City of Z, that he believed was hidden somewhere in the Amazon Jungle. Colonel Fawcett and his two companions, his son Jack Fawcett and Raleigh Rimmell vanished
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AncientPages.com – Researchers from the University of Athens have reconstructed the face of a Greek teenage girl, who is believed to be between 15 and 18 years old. Her age was established after researchers analyzed her bones and teeth. Dubbed ‘Avgi’ (it means in Greek: ‘Dawn’) by archaeologists, the girl lived around in the end of
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