Conny Waters – AncientPages.com -During a rescue excavation in 1996 in the town of Lod, one of the most impressive mosaic floors in Israel was discovered! Image credit: Israel Antiquities Authority The mosaic contains various stunningly naturalistic depictions of animals, birds,
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Ammonoids are a group of extinct marine mollusk animals that are now an iconic fossil group often collected by amateurs. Over 350 million years of evolution, ammonoids developed increasingly elaborate shells with fractal-like geometry.
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Painstaking archaeological exploration is a familiar, often widely admired, method of unearthing history. Less celebrated, but also invaluable, is the piecing together of fragments of ancient languages and analyzing how they changed over thousands of
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A large Anglo-Saxon burial has been unearthed at Bicker Fen, Lincolnshire, UK. The discovery was part of Viking Link’s construction. A project team worked with archaeology experts who carried out a number of detailed surveys
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The Zapotec civilization was by no means primitive. On the contrary, when investigating archaeological sites in the Valley of Oaxaca in Mesoamerica, scientists found evidence the history of the Zapotec civilization goes back at least
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – One of many impressive and colorful figures in Greek mythology is Circe, a divine witch and goddess of incredible power. She could predict the future and transform people into animals. Circe was also a shape-shifter and
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Scientists knew it was a race against time, but their struggle to find the ancient structure was not in vain. A long-lost Roman bridge has been re-discovered in the muddy banks of the River Wye
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Ancient pyramids have been found on all continents, and the test ancient structures’ purpose varies depending on the civilizations that constructed them. It cannot be denied that there are still aspects associated with pyramids the
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Underwater archaeologists report they have discovered the remains of an ancient sunken ship at a site in the Mediterranean Sea, roughly 650 meters from the beach of el-Alamein, Egypt. Image credit: Supreme Council of Antiquities
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Earlier this year, a massive and horrifying earthquake struck southern and central Turkey and northern and western Syria. Almost 60,000 people died in the deadliest earthquake in present-day Turkey since the 526 Antioch earthquake and
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Researchers have uncovered what may be Europe’s oldest settlement now located beneath the waters of Lake Ohrid, (the “Pearl of the Balkans.”). The Lake Ohrid in the mountains of Albania and North Macedonia is the
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – In February 2022, the journal Scientific Reports published a paper with the claim that a comet exploded over what is now Cincinnati around 1,500 years ago, raining fire over the area and destroying villages and
