Thousands of intriguing ancient artifacts have been discovered world-wide. Some of these ancient artifacts give us a deeper understanding of our ancestors’ customs, traditions, beliefs, level of technology and scientific achievements. Many of the artifacts are also mysterious and puzzling because we haven’t yet been able to determine their true purpose.
Jan Bartek- AncientPages.com – A very strange 5,000-year-old clay figurine has been found in Siberia. The Bronze Age statuette has a tattooed face and a bone mask. It was discovered inside a mass burial where it had been placed on
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – More and more artifacts are returned to the countries they came from. Recently, antique Tamil Nadu statues were returned by Britain to India, and now, a 1,800-year-old Lydian era atonement inscription returns to Turkey, after
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists in northwestern Turkey discovered a sun disk on a rock altar in the ancient Thracian settlement. The Thracian rock altar, unearthed in Edirne, dates to 3,500 years ago, according to Prof. Dr. Engin Beksac,
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Three antique idols depicting of Lord Ram, Lakshman and Sita have been returned by Britain to Indian authorities. The three bronze statues were stolen from Tamil Nadu in 1978, from a Hindu temple in the
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists from East Bohemia unearthed a unique Celtic sword. The discovery took place during surveying the site of a former Celtic oppidum in the village of Ceské Lhotice near the town of Chrudim in the
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Long-lasting archaeological excavations conducted in the Eleke Sazy valley in East Kazakhstan, have located a burial mound with a rich treasure of ancient gold jewelry. The exhibition “Gold of East Kazakhstan” – Infocenter of the
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Two pieces of a six-foot-tall statue of a lion have been accidentally found by a team of experts who were excavating and clearing mines for a planned groundwater reservoir. The place is located along the
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Additional finds were recovered from a small 1,500-year-old tomb in eastern South Korea by a team of researchers from South Korea’s Cultural Heritage Administration (CHA). In May, the researchers found the gilt-bronze shoes and coin-shaped
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A stunning 2,400-year-old terracotta mask of God Dionysus has been discovered in an old city today known as Daskyleion. Daskyleion, also known as Dascylus, was a town in Anatolia some 30 kilometers inland from the
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The 1,800-year-old relief of a Satyr has been unearthed in excavations carried out in the ancient city of Smyrna in Izmir province. The relief of Satyr is 1.70 meter-tall (5.5 feet) and is made of
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Until now the Nebra sky disk was deemed to be from the Early Bronze Age and therefore the world’s oldest depiction of the cosmos. Archaeologists from Goethe University Frankfurt and Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich have
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – During the excavation and restoration work at Ekşi Höyük, Denizli in Western Anatolia, archaeologists have discovered 8,600-year-old bone needles and round stones for spinning thread. These ancient textile tools are almost twice as old as
