AncientPages.com – A stone inscribed with Latin writing and Greek letters as well as Christian symbols – all dating from the 7th century has been excavated at Tintagel Castle, we read on English Heritage website. “The 1300-year-old letters, words and symbols appear
AncientPages.com – A 6th century hidden medical text from a book by the Greek-Roman doctor Galen, has been found with the help of X-ray technology. The words had been scraped off the parchment manuscript and written over with hymns in the
AncientPages.com – It has long been debated how the great English writer William Shakespeare came up with ideas and unique phrases for his great plays. Did Shakespeare have a source of inspiration? A new study shows Shakespeare was not entirely honest in
Thalia Lightbringer – AncientPages.com – You’ve heard of the da Vinci code, but what about the Michelangelo Code? Did this famous artist encode subversive messages in the work he did for the Church? Does the Sistine Chapel relate something other than the
AncientPages.com – Many famous artists had hidden secrets messages or other details beneath their paintings. One of them was world famous painter and sculptor Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) who deliberately changed certain things during the painting process. Using an X-ray fluorescence imaging
AncientPages.com – Excavations near Old Deer have unearthed a hearth and a thick layer of charcoal, with carbon testing dating the objects to between 1147 and 1260, which chimes with the later monastic period. The discovery of a layer of stone
AncientPages.com – Nepali art history will have to be revised after the recent discovery of rock paintings in Upper Mustang, researchers say. Recently discovered ancient rock art could shed more light on history of the people of Upper Mustang, Nepal, according
AncientPages.com – Totally 28 rock art sites dating from at least 2,500 years ago have been discovered by researchers from The Australian National University (ANU). The discovery was made on a small Indonesian island of Kisar which measures just 81 square
AncientPages.com – A team of archaeologists led by professor Rubina Raja at Aarhus University, Denmark, have used CT scanning and advanced 3D-modelling to virtually ‘unfold’ the silver plate found in Jerash. “It’s the first time that it’s ever been done
AncientPages.com – Prehistoric rock paintings have been discovered near Kadiri of Anantapur district of Andhra Pradesh. The rock, locally known as Rukalagundu in Kadiri mandal, was found to have prehistoric paintings dated to Mesolithic times. Dr E. Siva Nagireddy, CEO of
AncientPages.com – 13,000 year-old engraving uncovered in Spain may depict a hunter-gatherer campsite, according to researchers Marcos García-Diez from University of the Basque Country, Spain, and Manuel Vaquero from Catalan Institute of Human Palaeoecology and Social Evolution – IPHES, Spain. It’s a
AncientPages.com – A rare medieval painting depicting Judas’ betrayal of Christ may have survived destruction at the hands of 16th century iconoclasts after being ‘recycled’ to list the Ten Commandments instead. The brightly-painted wooden panel, with details picked out in silver
