Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – It would seem ancient Maya cities in Mesoamerica are as beautiful as dangerous. There is solid evidence that beneath the soil surface of the ancient Maya cities, an unexpected danger lurks there: mercury pollution. In
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – It may have been a storm or something else, but scientists now know a ship loaded with cargo from all over the Mediterranean ended its journey after sinking off the coast of Israel 1,200 years
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Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Ancient Palmyra has gripped public imagination since its picturesque ruins were “rediscovered” in the seventeenth century by western travelers. The most legendary story of ancient Palmyra is that of Queen Zenobia, who was ruling over
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Built more than a thousand years before the Aztecs arrived in central Mexico, Teotihuacan was once one of the largest cities in the world. Its stone temples, comparable in size to Egypt’s pyramids, still draw
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – The Roman city walls in Lugo, Spain, are considered the only Roman structure that experienced the powerful empire’s domination, yet it is still in perfect condition. The Lugo structure – dated to the end of
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Researchers have shed light on the story behind a large sandstone rock art site in Central Queensland that features seven star-like designs, large snake-like designs, six-toed human feet and even a penis. Engraved penis and
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Almost 300 years after the Romans left, scholars like Bede wrote about the Angles and the Saxons and their migrations to the British Isles. Scholars of many disciplines, including archaeology, history, linguists and genetics, have
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – In the field of human genetics, the story of Mother Eve is a familiar one. It describes how all living humans descend from one woman who lived in Africa 200,000 to 300,000 years ago. Evidence comes from
AncientPages.com – Human beings have a conflicted relationship with the sun. People love sunshine, but then get hot. Sweat gets in your eyes. Then there are all the protective rituals: the sunscreen, the hats, the sunglasses. If you stay out
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Excavations in Saqqara, Giza in Egypt continue to be successful. This time the science team unearthed the sarcophagus of King Ramses II’s head of treasury, who was responsible for the offerings to all gods of
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – One of the largest volcanic eruptions in the Holocene epoch—as measured by the volume of material ejected—occurred on the Greek island of Santorini, traditionally known as Thera. It is considered a pivotal event in the
