Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – The legend of Madoc has sparked fierce debate ever since the days of the Tudors. Today, archaeological discoveries have convinced many that ancient civilizations reached the Americas long before Christopher Columbus set sail. Could it
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A centuries-old shipwreck discovered off the south coast of England, containing 400 gold coins, has been identified as the Dutch trading ship “Dom van Keulen,” which departed Morocco for the Netherlands in autumn 1633. Credit:
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – When Albert Camus (1913 -1960) wrote about Djémila, a ruined Roman city in the mountains of Northern Algeria, he said this beautiful, long-abandoned place is inhabited by the wind alone. The ancient lost Roman city
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Excavations in Nijmegen-West have revealed extensive remains of a Roman bathhouse, the largest of its kind in the Netherlands. Stephan Mols, a researcher from Radboud University, regularly visits the site. These discoveries indicate that the
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Many ancient Maya cities are still hidden in the jungle, waiting to be discovered. One of these, called Minanbé—which means “there is no path” in Yucatec Maya—was recently found by a team of Mexican and
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – In “Theogony,” a Greek poet, Hesiod, who likely lived around 700 BC, tells about Hypnos, the god of sleep, and his twin brother, Thanatos, the god of death, who the Greeks occasionally saw as a
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Our ancestors experienced the largest increase in body size about 2 to 2.5 million years ago, when Homo rudolfensis or Homo erectus/ergaster appeared. This change did not happen gradually across all human species. Recent research
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Like in most ancient cultures, dance was important to people in ancient Greece. Dance was a way to express emotions, tell stories, and communicate. To the ancient Greeks, dance was a gift of the gods,
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – In ancient societies, women’s high social status was often reflected in their funerary costumes, especially their headgear. Archaeologists have found several female burials from the early 6th century BC in forest-steppe Scythia, each with funerary headdresses
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A recent archaeological discovery at Gabal El-Teir in Minya Governorate provides new insights into the evolution of funerary architecture in ancient Egypt, following the unearthing of two Early Dynastic tombs and burials from the Predynastic and
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Midsummer has a special feeling, almost like a hidden magic is in the air. People who celebrate it often remember the lasting memories that nature gives them on this day. Today, Midsummer is associated with
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – During the archaeological salvage project led by the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) in the San Lucas subdivision of Coatepec, Veracruz, researchers uncovered pre-Hispanic cultural remains. These include civic-ceremonial structures likely dating to
