Circe: Powerful Divine Sorceress Who Mastered Healing, Miracles And Transforming People Into Animals In Greek Mythology
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – One of many impressive and colorful figures in Greek mythology is Circe, a divine witch and goddess of incredible power. She had the ability to predict the future and transform people into animals. Circe was also a shape-shifter and performed cleansing rituals. Left: Circe and Scylla in John William Waterhouse’s Circe Invidiosa […]
Long-Lost Roman Bridge Re-Discovered In Chepstow River Wye Mud, UK
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Scientists knew it was a race against time, but their struggle to find the ancient structure was not in vain. A long-lost Roman bridge has been re-discovered in the muddy banks of the River Wye near Chepstow, United Kingdom. Credit: Chepstow Archaeological Society The Chepstow Archaeological Society team, with help […]
‘Sophisticated’ 4,000-Year-Old Steppe Pyramid Discovered In Kazakhstan
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Ancient pyramids have been found on all continents, and the test ancient structures’ purpose varies depending on the civilizations that constructed them. It cannot be denied that there are still aspects ᴀssociated with pyramids the world of science does not fully understand. Still, each archaeological discovery offers more information about […]
Remains Of A 2,300-Year-Old Sunken Ship Discovered At Alamein Shore
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Underwater archaeologists report they have discovered the remains of an ancient sunken ship at a site in the Mediterranean Sea, roughly 650 meters from the beach of el-Alamein, Egypt. Image credit: Supreme Council of Antiquities The find was made as part of the archaeological mission carried out by the Central […]
3,800-Year-Old Cuneiform Clay Tablet With Agreement To Purchase A City Discovered In An Ancient Tumulus In Turkey
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Earlier this year, a mᴀssive and horrifying earthquake struck southern and central Turkey and northern and western Syria. Almost 60,000 people died in the ᴅᴇᴀᴅliest earthquake in present-day Turkey since the 526 Antioch earthquake and the ᴅᴇᴀᴅliest natural disaster in its modern history. When residential buildings, bridges, and modern infrastructure […]
Europe’s Oldest Lakeside Settlement Protected By Defensive Barricade of Spikes – Discovered
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Researchers have uncovered what may be Europe’s oldest settlement now located beneath the waters of Lake Ohrid, (the “Pearl of the Balkans.”). The Lake Ohrid in the mountains of Albania and North Macedonia is the oldest lake in Europe. (Example). Reconstruction of Bronze Age stilt houses on Lake Ohrid, near Peštani, North Macedonia. Image […]
Archaeologists Refute Claims That A Comet Destroyed Hopewell Culture
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – In February 2022, the journal Scientific Reports published a paper with the claim that a comet exploded over what is now Cincinnati around 1,500 years ago, raining fire over the area and destroying villages and farm fields, supposedly resulting in the rapid decline of the ancient Indigenous Hopewell culture. Comparison […]
Extreme North Atlantic Cooling Event Ended The First Human Occupation In Europe
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – A new study published in the journal Science finds that around 1.12 million years ago a mᴀssive cooling event in the North Atlantic and corresponding shifts in climate, vegetation and food resources disrupted early human occupation of Europe. North Atlantic cooling event 1.127 million years ago, which contributed to […]
When And Where Early Human Species Interbred Was Determined By Shifts In Climate And Vegetation – Scientists Say
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – An international team of scientists has found evidence that past changes in atmospheric CO2 and corresponding shifts in climate and vegetation played a key role in determining when and where early human species interbred. Modern-day people carry in their cells a small quanтιтy of DNA deriving from other human species, […]
Tutcetus: The ‘Pharaoh’ Of Whales Who Died Young 41 Million Years Ago
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – An international team of scientists, led by Egyptian researchers, has made a groundbreaking discovery of a new species of extinct whale, Tutcetus rayanensis, that inhabited the ancient sea covering present-day Egypt around 41 million years ago. Life reconstruction of the extinct basilosaurid whale Tutcetus rayanensis swimming in the Tethys Ocean […]