Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – During conservation work in a church in Silesia, art conservators noticed that one of the stone slabs looked different from others. This was the beginning of an amazing discovery. It was only by chance that
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – After 78 years, a ‘lost’ medieval altar painting that was taken from Gdańsk’s St. Mary’s Basilica during World War Two has arrived back in Poland. After last-minute concerns over whether the valuable shipment would be
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A secret group consisting of members who wish to remain anonymous are currently searching for evidence of ancient giant skeletons and archaeologists are not happy about this. Despite being active for some years now there
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – In the ancient city of Laodicea (Laodikya) located in Denizli Province in southwestern Turkey, archaeologists have recovered fresco travertine rock formation dating back 1,750-years. Laodicea was a major hub of Christianity. The Laodicean Church was
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Carved out of a 65-meter-high (213 feet) rock mass in the 13th century in the Black Sea region’s Gümüşhane province – the Çakırkaya Monastery will be soon admired by tourists. Çakirkaya Monastery, which was built
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A Nazi photo album that was made out of the skin and hair of World War II Nazi death camp victims has been found at an antique market in Poland. The album was put up
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The iconic Plaza Tree of Pueblo Bonito is widely believed to have been a majestic pine standing in the west courtyard of the monumental great house during the peak of the Chaco Phenomenon (AD 850–1140).
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The rubber ball game is one of the most fundamental and iconic features of ancient Mesoamerica, a pre-Columbian cultural region encompassing Guatemala, Belize, most of Mexico, and western Honduras and El Salvador. Pre-Columbian ball courts
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A unique rock carving has been found in the Teymareh rock art site (Khomein county) in Central Iran. The site is known to have thousands of pre-historic petroglyphs and among them, researchers have now focused
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – When the first modern European arrived on the shores of North America they noticed to their surprise that another civilization from their continent had already been there. For a long time, we have been led
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A 2,000-year-old stela known as Stela 87 was recently found by archaeologists working at the Tak’alik Ab’aj archaeological park in El Asintal, 85 miles (140 kilometers) southwest of the capital. Site of excavation at Tak’alik
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Scandal is perhaps not the best word to describe this news, but it’s certainly embarrassing and disappointing. What some suspected for a while has now been confirmed. The Washington, D.C. Museum has confirmed that 16
