Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Cave 53, in the Qumran region delivers new surprises. A whole pottery vessel from the Early Bronze Age, one of the few ever discovered in the Judean Desert, was unexpectedly uncovered by a tourist in the cave! An American tourist named Robbie Brown and his friends climbed into a cave […]
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Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The ancient Venus Of Willendorf figurine has intrigued scientists for many years. Carved some 30,000 years ago, the figurine, dated to the Upper Paleolithic era, represents the earliest example of art that depicts humans and was created by nomadic hunter-gatherers. The so-called ‘Venus of Willendorf’, an 11.1-centimeter-tall (4.4 in) figurine
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Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Historical buildings and relics dating back to the Middle Iron Age through to the Roman period have been unearthed by archaeologists working on National Highways A428 Black Cat to Caxton Gibbet improvement scheme in Bedfordshire, UK. Since July 2021, archaeologists from the Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA) and the Cambridge
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Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – In Europe, the Knights Templar were the first known warrior monks, active during the Crusades. However, warrior monks did not only exist in Europe. In other parts of the world, like Japan, religious organizations trained monks to live an ascetic lifestyle and engage in violent conflicts by becoming great warriors. The
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Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Researchers from the University of Oxford’s Big Data Institute have taken a major step towards mapping the entirety of genetic relationships among humans: a single genealogy that traces the ancestry of all of us. The study has been published in Science. Credit: Adobe Stock – Farnaces The past two decades
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Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A young woman walks Trondheim’s streets 800 years ago, carrying a secret in her body. It’s 150 years before the plague—the Black Death—but this young women is sick with a disease that no one thought was found in Europe at all during medieval times. We don’t know whether this particular
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Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Ancient Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun, commonly referred to as King Tut, had several cosmic jewels placed in his tomb when he died, being only 18 years. When Egyptologist Howard Carter and his team found steps that led to Tutankhamun’s tomb in the Valley of the Kings, on November 4, 1922, they were startled to
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Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A new analysis of human remains that were buried in African archaeological sites has produced the earliest DNA from the continent, telling a fascinating tale of how early humans lived, traveled and even found their significant others. An interdisciplinary team of 44 researchers outlined its findings in “Ancient DNA reveals
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Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – In part 1, we talked about an ancient Egyptian artifact with an engraving that could have a somewhat different meaning than previously thought. Scholars are still uncertain regarding the purpose of the thousand-year-old object. This time we will focus our attention on ancient Roman texts that some writers think contain
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – Stele of Tell al-Rimah, dated to 796 BC, is a stone stela from the reign of the Assyrian king Adad-nirari III (810-783 BC) found in 1967 during archaeological excavations at the site of Tell al-Rimah in Nineveh Province, in northern Iraq, near Jebel Sinjar. Stele of Adad-nirari III at the
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