Djoser – Most Outstanding King Of The Third Dynasty In Ancient Egypt And His Step Pyramid
Angela Sutherland – AncientPages.com – Djoser was possibly the founder of the Third Dynasty of the Old Kingdom in Egypt. The Old Kingdom began with the third dynasty (2686 BC) and ended with the sixth, about 2333 BC). Pharaoh Djoser’s Ka Chamber. Image credit: Vincent Brown – source Djoser (also known as Zoser) was responsible […]
Unusual Iron Age Burial With Warrior And Sword Discovered On Gotland, Sweden – Was He From The Roman Empire?
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeology students from the Uppsala University have uncovered the remains of an Iron Age warrior in Sweden. The find made during excavations in ʙuттle Änge on the Swedish island Gotland has been described as “rather unusual” and the deceased may not have been from Scandinavia. Iron Age warrior discovered on […]
One Of The Biggest Gold Treasures Ever Discovered In Denmark Is 1,500-Year-Old
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – When archaeologists in Denmark say they have struck gold, they do really mean it! One of the biggest gold treasures ever discovered in Denmark has become an archaeological sensation. Scientists have unearthed almost a kilo’s worth of golden treasure in Jutland dating back to around 1,500 years ago. One of […]
Ancient Religious Ceremony May Shed Light On The Mysterious Qumran Site
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – One of the most interesting archaeological sites is Qumran in West Jordan. This is where scientists in 1947 unearthed clay pots filled with ancient scrolls hidden in eleven caves. Today known as the ᴅᴇᴀᴅ Sea Scrolls, these ancient texts were written using a carbon-based ink and are mostly in Hebrew, […]
‘Impossible’ Ancient Knowledge Of The Gods’ Star – Mysterious Beings – Part 2
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – As discussed in part 1, the scientists who visited the tribe were told about strange and mysterious beings who once came to this corner of the world a very long time ago. They also learned about an unusual ceremony that is still performed in honor of these distant strangers. Still, […]
Tree Rings On the Oregon Coast Show Evidence A Tsunami That Struck The Pacific Northwest In 1700
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Core samples taken from a stand of old growth Douglas-fir trees in the South Beach area just south of Newport showed reduced growth following the 9.0 earthquake and subsequent tsunami that struck the Pacific Northwest in 1700. The physical evidence from the Douglas-fir tree rings confirms modeling that depicts the […]
Oxygen Spike Coincided With Ancient Global Extinction
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Two hundred fifty-two million years ago, much of life on planet Earth was dying. In an event that marked the end of the Permian period, more than 96 percent of the planet’s marine species and 70 percent of its terrestrial life suddenly went extinct. It was the largest extinction in […]
America’s First Civilization Was Made Up Of ‘Sophisticated’ Engineers – New Evidence
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The Native Americans who occupied the area known as Poverty Point in northern Louisiana more than 3,000 years ago long have been believed to be simple hunters and gatherers. But new Washington University in St. Louis archaeological findings paint a drastically different picture of America’s first civilization. The illustration above […]
One Of The Oldest Manuscripts Fragments Of The Famous Merlin Legend Discovered
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Medieval manuscript fragments discovered in Bristol that tell part of the story of Merlin the magician, one of the most famous characters from Arthurian legend, have been identified by academics from the Universities of Bristol and Durham as some of the earliest surviving examples of that section of the narrative. […]
Who Was The Mysterious Old Leather Man?
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – When stories about the mysterious Old Leather Man started circulating, many wanted to know more about the unusual man. People said they had seen a strange vagabond walking all over New England. Sightings of the peculiar drifter were reported from 1883 to 1889, but who was he? The Old Leatherman […]