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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Scientists are investigating mysterious giant stone circles visible only from the air. This complex structure is located over 3,000 meters above sea level near the Tigre mountain range in Argentina. Initially detected through satellite imagery, the […] Read more at Ancient Pages
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A small 2,000-year-old artifact has proven more important than once thought. This decorated Iron Age terret, now on display in the European Prehistory Gallery at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, was found in Suffolk, England. […] Read more at Ancient Pages
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - A set of puzzling ancient inscriptions has been discovered in Iceland, North America, and Peru. What makes this discovery truly fascinating is that the symbols are almost identical, strongly suggesting the same culture created them. […] Read more at Ancient Pages
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - About a hundred years ago, archaeologists unearthing pottery sherds in Tampa Bay found something unexpected. Some of the fragments they recovered had designs nearly identical to decorated pottery found hundreds of miles to the north. […] Read more at Ancient Pages - All About The Ancient
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Hidalgo, Mexico, is home to numerous ancient cave paintings and rock art. Located in the pre-Hispanic region of Mesoamerica, the area has seen migrations of various indigenous peoples, including the Olmecs, Toltecs, Chichimecas, Aztecs, and […] Read more at Ancient Pages - All About The
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A centuries-old Highlands story of forbidden love, war, and a legendary curse is now being investigated as a true-crime case. Forensic experts hope to uncover the real facts behind this medieval mystery. For generations, the […] Read more at Ancient Pages
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Around 1 in 10 people worldwide chew betel nuts. However, the earliest beginnings of this widespread drug-use habit are unknown. Colored areca nuts [Areca catechu] in the market. Bago, Burma [Myanmar]. This red color determines […] Read more at Ancient Pages - All About The Ancient Wor
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - He has been considered a genius with the highest mental ability and a unique talent. Who was Archimedes? Archimedes was a great scholar from Syracuse, the ancient capital of Sicily, which was originally a Greek […] Read more at Ancient Pages
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Historical records confirm that the greatest military campaigns of conquest were often accomplished by the robust nomadic and semi-nomadic peoples inhabiting Central Asia. Left: Timur - Turco-Mongol Conqueror. Reconstruction of Timur Lenk's face based on […] Read more at Ancient Pages
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – One of the most complete diplodocid skeletons ever discovered in Europe is reported by paleontologists from the Fundación Conjunto Paleontológico de Teruel-Dinópolis in the peer-reviewed Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. An illustration of the Diplodocus by Carmelo López. Image
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Researchers in Wyoming, U.S., have uncovered two rare fossils of a Jurassic squid-like species that lived about 160 million years ago. The species, called Wyoteuthis linsterorum, is an ancient cephalopod known as a belemnite and is related to today’s squid and octopus. Its thick, barrel-
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers recreated a damaged ancient scroll to test a new method for examining historical texts. A model carbonized papyrus scroll opens a novel path to identifying readable scrolls of the Herculaneum Library. a) One of several papyrus scrolls before carbonization and (b) after carb
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