Unique 17th Century Silk Dress Found At Bottom Of The Wadden Sea Goes On Display
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The Palmwood shipwreck was discovered off the coast of the Dutch island of Texel in the Wadden Sea. The ship, whose name is unknown, voyaged in the 17th century, around 1650 or possibly 1660. It sank off the eastern coast of Texel sometime after 1636. Nicknamed Palmwood, the wreck was […]
Rare 7,000-Year-Old Clay Figurine Discovered In Battifratta Cave, Lazio
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Scientists found a curious ancient artifact while excavating in a cave in Poggio Nativo, Lazio, Italy. The object in question has been described as a rare, 7,000-year-old clay figurine made in an unknown individual’s image. Who does the ancient figurine depict? Could it be an unknown ancient goddess, a woman […]
Evidence 600-Million-Year-Old Ocean Existed In The Himalayas – Found
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – High up in the Himalayas, scientists at the Indian Insтιтute of Science (IISc) and Niigata University, Japan, have discovered droplets of water trapped in mineral deposits that were likely left behind from an ancient ocean which existed around 600 million years ago. Top: Field exposures of magnesite near Chandak […]
Hidden Details In Ancient Egyptian Tomb Paintings Revealed By Chemical Imaging
AncientPages.com – The walls of ancient Egyptian tombs can teach us much about the lives of the pharaohs and their entourages. Tomb paintings showed the deceased and their immediate family members involved in religious activities, the burial itself, or feasting at banquets and hunting in the Nile marshes. But many such tombs were looted in […]
Evidence Of The 586 BCE Babylonian Destruction Of Jerusalem’s Monumental Building – Reconstructed
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Researchers analyzed and reconstructed the destruction layer excavated within the rooms of a two-story building in Jerusalem that was occupied until the city’s capture by the Babylonians in 586 BCE. City of Jerusalem. Image source This large structure, dated to the Iron Age II and named “Building 100,” was very […]
Mystery Of The 2,000-Year-Old Grave On The Isles Of Scilly Solved!
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A 2,000-year-old tomb on the Isles of Scilly has puzzled scientists ever since it was discovered in 1999. Inside the grave was a skeleton, but did it belong to a woman or a man? When archaeologists excavated the grave on Bryher, they found a sword in a copper alloy scabbard […]
Fossil Study: Coelacanths Thrived In Switzerland After A Mᴀss Extinction
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The study of a new species of coelacanth from the Middle Triᴀssic period, with a strange morphology for these fish known as “living fossil,” show the formation of several species in a short time, after a mᴀss extinction that occurred 252 million years ago, with more than 80% of marine […]
New Insights Into The Dawn Of The Indo-European Languages
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – An international team of linguists and geneticists has achieved a significant breakthrough in our understanding of the origins of Indo-European, a family of languages spoken by nearly half of the world’s population. For over two hundred years, the origin of the Indo-European languages has been disputed. Two main theories have […]
Ancient Ruins Of Nero’s Theater Discovered Under Garden Near Vatican
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – “What an artist dies with me!” The Roman Emperor Nero (AD 54 until AD 68) reportedly uttered those famous last words before his death in exile. It has long been known Emperor Nero enjoyed musical performances and had a place where he rehearsed poetry, but the location of the site […]
Perfectly Preserved Turtle Fossil Gives Clues To Habitat 150 Million Years Ago
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A perfectly preserved turtle fossil from Lower Bavaria yields important clues about both the species and the habitat that existed in southern Germany 150 million years ago. Image credit: University of Tübingen The fossil is the best-preserved specimen of Solnhofia parsonsi found to date. Its forelimbs and hind limbs are […]