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Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Teams digging in an ancient city on Turkey’s Mediterranean coast that was once home to pirates discover a variety of artifacts, including anchors and a bath. Once a hub for pirate activity, the ancient city
AncientPages.com – During the latest excavations at the archaeological site of Kerameikos in Athens, archaeologists of the German Archaeological Institute discovered an ancient well probably used for hydromancy rituals. This significant and unexpected discovery was made after an inverted marble
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – A wooden statue pulled from a peat bog in Russia more than a hundred years ago is now believed to be twice as old as Stonehenge. The Shigir Idol, which found in the Ural Mountains
AncientPages.com – The practice of human sacrifice in America’s largest prehistoric city was more subtle and complex than experts once thought, new research suggests. Recent studies into the remains of sacrificial victims at the ancient city of Cahokia reveal that
AncientPages.com – At one time, the 7,000-year-old Misis (Mopsuestia), located in the southern province of Adana,was known as the immortal city and had up to 100,000 inhabitants; now has a population of just a few thousand and it is not
AncientPages.com – Archaeologists identified three archaeological sites in Llagaden community, Magdalena, Cajamarca, Peru. They also found archaeological evidence in the form of pottery remains, which date back to 2,000 years ago. The pottery could be linked to ancient Pre-Incan Cajamarca
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A series of murals recently discovered in Shimao Ruins indicate that the basic production process and rendering techniques used to make Chinese murals might be more than 4,000 years old. Shimao ruins, Shaanxi Province. Photo credit:
AncientPages.com – A 2,000-year-old square labyrinth has been discovered in Gedimedu, a village 16km from Pollachi, Tamil Nadu state, India, by researchers from the Verarajendran Archaeological and Historical Research Centre, Tirupur. The finding attains significance as the site lies on
AncientPages.com – Some 2,000 spirals made of gold have been unearthed in a field in southwestern Zealand, where four gold bracelets and six gold bowls have been found in the past. The trove of gold spirals may have been used for
AncientPages.com – A group of scientists excavating on the edge of the Siberian Arctic have made a very intriguing discovery unearthing unopened human remains wrapped in birch bark belonging to a mysterious lost medieval civilization. Several of the ancient bodies were
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – The Peterborough petroglyphs in Ontario, Canada, are just as mysterious as controversial. Could these sacred images offer enough evidence that ancient Celtic explorers visited Canada more than 2,000 years ago? Some are convinced that the
AncientPages.com – One of the best-known Danish Bronze Age finds, the Egtved Girl from 1370 BC, was not born in Egtved, Denmark, reveals new research from the National Museum of Denmark and University of Copenhagen. Strontium isotope analyses of the girl’s
