AncientPages.com – Leiden Egyptologist Ben Haring has deciphered a list of words engraved on a shard of pottery from the 15th century B.C. and determined that it is an alphabetically ordered word list. The discovery has been published in the Journal of
AncientPages.com – An inscription of Vijayanagara King Bukkaraya I has been discovered near Kollur in Udupi district. This is said to be the earliest inscription of Bukkaraya found in Udupi till date. The 24 line epigraph written in Kannada script
The oldest Egyptian leather manuscript has been found in the shelves of the Egyptian museum in Cairo, where it was stored and forgotten for more than 70 years. Dating from the late Old Kingdom to the early Middle Kingdom (2300-2000
The world’s oldest bible, The Codex Sinaiticus, will be lent by the British Library to the British Museum for an exhibition covering 1,200 years of Christian, Islamic and Jewish faith in Egypt after the Pharaohs. The world’s oldest bible dates
Recent discovery of a marble slab with an important inscription about the Odrysian Kingdom will shed light on the past of the most powerful of the ancient Thracian states. The marble slab was unearthed at the site of Aquae Calidae,
Mourning rings honouring post-medieval dead, emblazoned with skulls and crosses, have been declared archaeological treasure in Wales. Post-medieval mourning is revealed in skulls and inscriptions on three rings found by archaeologists. “The skull or death’s head is a motif
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Nearly a year ago, a sacrificial altar dedicated to an unknown Pagan god, Porobonus, was discovered in Bulgaria. The limestone artifact, dating back to the first half of the 3rd century AD, was unearthed at
Previously unknown rock paintings, covering rock shelters in the Kondoa district in central Tanzania, have been discovered by Maciej Grzelczyck, archaeologist from A. Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland and winner of the Ministry of Science programme “Diamond Grant”. Grzelczyck also
A marble block, considered the “water law” from 1,900 years ago, has been unearthed in the ancient city of Laodicea in the western province of Denizli and shows that the use of water in the city was managed by law
The surviving recorded graffiti written on the walls of a cave in central Asia may tell a 500-year-old story of climate change. Scientists have found unique writings on the walls of a cave in central China, which describes the effects
AncientPages.com – When a farmer ploughing an Aberdeenshire field in 1978 uncovered a six-foot high Pictish stone carved with a distinctive figure carrying an axe, it quickly earned the name the ‘Rhynie Man’, coined from the village in which it
Archaeologists of Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (TSU) have discovered a one line inscription of as yet unknown Georgian writing, dating back 2700 years on the altar pedestal of the 7th century BC temple dedicated to a fertility goddess at
