5,000-Year-Old Black Death Victim Challenges Theories Of Development Of Human Civilization
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The horrible global epidemic of the bubonic plague known as the Black Death struck Europe and Asia from 1347 to 1352 C.E and caused the death of 75-200 million people. The disease was spread to the Crimea by Mongol warriors and traders. Oldest Black Death Victim A new study reveals the […]
Pharaoh Apries – Was The Betrayed Egyptian King Murdered By His Own People?
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Being a Pharaoh in ancient Egypt could be honorable, prestigious, and dangerous. At the end of his rule, everything went wrong for Pharaoh Apries. It would seem he had neither the Gods nor the people on his side. He was betrayed and had to flee the country. According to some […]
4,000-Year-Old Serpent-Shaped Wooden Stick Unearthed in Southern Finland
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists working at an excavation site near Järvensuo in southwest Finland have discovered a 4,000-year-old wooden stick shaped like a snake. The sculpture – the carefully carved, 50-centimeters-long artifact from the Neolithic Stone Age – was found under a layer of peat by the shore of Muinaisjärvi lake. Radiocarbon dating of […]
The Spread Of Weighing Systems Across Western Eurasia 4,000 Years Ago
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Knowing the weight of a commodity provides an objective way to value goods in the marketplace. But did a self-regulating market even exist in the Bronze Age? And what can weight systems tell us about this? A team of researchers from the University of Göttingen researched this by investigating the […]
Llyn Y Dywarchen – Enigmatic Lake Shrouded In Myth And Legend
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The world is full of wonderful, beautiful, and mysterious places. One of them is a lake called Llyn Y Dywarchen. Located in Gwynedd, at the top of a valley in Snowdonia, Northern Wales, the lake is shrouded in myth and legend. Riddle Of The Floating Island It has long been […]
New Type Of Early Previously Unknown Human Discovered In Israel
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Researchers have identified remains of a new, previously unknown type of ‘Homo’ who lived in the region at the Nesher Ramla site side by side in the Levant for more than 100,000 years (200-100,000 years ago). These people shared knowledge and tool technologies. Static skull & mandible & parietal orthographic. […]
Underwater Ancient Cypress Forest Offers Clues To The Past
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – When saber-toothed tigers, woolly mammoths, and giant sloths roamed North America during the last Ice Age about 18,000 to 80,000 years ago, the Gulf Coast’s climate was only slightly cooler, more similar to regions to the north like Missouri and North Carolina’s climate today. As sea level dropped and exposed […]
Werewolf – Ancient Worldwide Belief In Terrible Curse
Angela Sutherland – AncientPages.com – “Those born with a birthmark, wolfish tufts of hair, or a caul on their head were believed to be werewolves.” 1 A man can become an exceptionally horrible creature, known in ancient folk and mythological beliefs as a werewolf. In ancient times, it was believed in the possibility of transforming […]
Djémila – Lost City Of The Ancient Kingdom Of Numidia
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – When Albert Camus (1913 -1960) wrote about Djémila, a ruined Roman city in the mountains of Northern Algeria, he said this beautiful long-abandoned place is inhabited by the wind alone. Camus wrote in Noces (Nuptials) that when you walk among the city’s ancient ruins, you can hear the wind which […]
Use Of Tobacco Pipes By Hopewell People Tells A New Story
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Nineteenth- and 20th-century archaeologists often made sweeping claims about Native cultures, suggesting that everyone who lived in a particular region at a given time shared the same atтιтudes and practices. A Sterling pipestone effigy pipe of a bird pecking a human face. The pipe was found in Pike County, Illinois. […]