Unlocking ancient secrets Studying mummies offers valuable insights for curing modern diseases. Fascinating intersections of history and science.
How Studying Mummies Could Cure Modern Diseases Earlier this year, scientists published a study of whole-body CT scans of 137 mummies: ancient Egyptians and Peruvians, ancestral Puebloans…
King Tut’s Cosmic Dagger Was Not Made In Egypt – New Study Reveals
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Ancient Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun, commonly referred to as King Tut, had several cosmic jewels placed in his tomb when he died, being only 18 years. When Egyptologist Howard Carter and his team found steps that led to Tutankhamun’s tomb in the Valley of the Kings, on November 4, 1922, they were startled to […]
Ancient DNA Reveals Surprises About Life Of Early Africans
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A new analysis of human remains that were buried in African archaeological sites has produced the earliest DNA from the continent, telling a fascinating tale of how early humans lived, traveled and even found their significant others. An interdisciplinary team of 44 researchers outlined its findings in “Ancient DNA reveals […]
Unearthing history Archaeologists discover a 9000yearold shrine in the Jordan desert shedding light on ancient civilizations and their rituals. This remarkable find is rewriting history books
Archaeologists find a 9,000-year-old shrine in the Jordan desert A team of Jordanian and French archaeologists said Tuesday that it had found a roughly 9,000-year-old shrine at…
Unearthing ancient history Archaeologists in Norway discover hunting blinds dating back to the Stone Age shedding new light on our past.
Ancient Hunting Blinds Found in Norway If you want to kill a reindeer with a bow and arrow you have to get as close to the animal…
Secret Hidden Freemasonic Messages Concealed In Ancient Egyptian Artifacts And Roman Works – Curious Stellar Symbol – Part 2
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – In part 1, we talked about an ancient Egyptian artifact with an engraving that could have a somewhat different meaning than previously thought. Scholars are still uncertain regarding the purpose of the thousand-year-old object. This time we will focus our attention on ancient Roman texts that some writers think contain […]
Stele Of Tell al-Rimah And Deeds Of ᴀssyrian King Adad-nirari Against Rebellious Kings
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – Stele of Tell al-Rimah, dated to 796 BC, is a stone stela from the reign of the ᴀssyrian king Adad-nigari III (810-783 BC) found in 1967 during archaeological excavations at the site of Tell al-Rimah in Nineveh Province, in northern Iraq near Jebel Sinjar. Stele of Adad-nirari III at the […]
Mysterious Mermaid Mummy Investigated By Scientists
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – For hundreds of years, this strange “mermaid mummy” has been kept at a temple where it was worshipped by believers hoping the enigmatic creature could bring them luck, happiness, and good health. This strange, mummified creature has the upper body of a human and the lower body of a fish, […]
Story Of David And Goliath Linked To Horvat Qeiyafa In The Valley Of Elah, Israel
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A site, Horvat Qeiyafa in the Valley of Elah, which is linked to one of the most famous biblical stories – the story of David and Goliath – has been visited by President Isaac Herzog and his wife Michal. “…Some claim the city located at Horvat Qeiyafa as the biblical […]
350-Year-Old Remains Unearthed In A Stone Age Site In Portugal
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – An African man who lived just 350 years ago was buried in a prehistoric shell midden in Amoreira in Portugal. This was very surprising because Amoreira and other midden sites in the Muge region are well known by archaeologists for the cemeteries of the last hunter-gatherers living in the area […]