Rare Well-Preserved 2,500-Year-Old Dagger Linked To The Keeladi Civilization Discovered In Tamil Nadu, India
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – While excavating at Konthagai in the Keeladi cluster in Tamil Nadu, India scientists made an interesting archaeological discovery. Among eleven burial urns that are believed to belong to the Keeladi civilization, they found a 2,500-year-old wooden dagger, along with human remains. The site where the ancient Keeladi dagger was unearthed. […]
Pan Twardowski – The Man Who Sold His Soul To The Devil In Exchange For Special Powers
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – There are stories about people who will do anything to gain special powers in folklore, myths, and legends. Those who sell their soul to the Devil in reward for something special often meet a tragic fate. This was the case with the sorcerer and magician Pan Twardowski who made a […]
Rare Upper Paleolithic Human Remains Discovered In The Iberian Peninsula
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – It is a unique archaeological discovery because finding prehistoric remains of modern humans in the Iberian Peninsula does not happen often. The remains of a female attributed to H. sapiens, who lived in the northeast of the Iberian Peninsula at the end of the Upper Paleolithic, around 14,000 years ago […]
Philippine Ayta People Have The Highest Level Of Denisovan DNA – New Study
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Researchers have known from several lines of evidence that the ancient hominins known as the Denisovans interbred with modern humans in the distant past. Now researchers have discovered that the Ayta Magbukon in the Philippines have the highest level of Denisovan ancestry in the world. In fact, they carry considerably […]
Three Judges Of Souls Await You On Chinvat Bridge – Gateway To Unknown Realms In Zoroastrian Beliefs
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – The concept of death, soul, and afterlife have long fascinated humans. Like modern scientists keep speculating about what happens when we die, ancient civilizations had their own beliefs about what death really means. Invisible bridges leading to unknown realms are mentioned in many myths and legends. Most ancient people did not […]
Mysterious 11,000 – Year-Old Tower Of Jericho: Was World’s First Skycraper A Symbol Of Power Or An Ancient Time-Keeping Device?
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – The mysterious 11,000-year-old Tower of Jericho was an impressive ancient structure. It was the world’s first skyscraper that over the years has inspired a number of theories about why it was built. Some have suggested the 28-foot (8.5 meters) ancient tower was a symbol of power. Other scientists have proposed it […]
New Unique Ancient Underwater Finds In The Ports Of Caesarea And Acre
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Caesarea, and Acre are two ancient cities in Northern Israel that provide archaeologists often with interesting discoveries. Located between Haifa and Tel Aviv, Caesarea is a city with a history going back to the days of Herod the Great and Caesar Augustus more than 2,000 years ago. Being one of the […]
Mystery Of Arthur’s Stone In UK – Solved?
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – For the first time ever, archaeologists in the UK have properly excavated the mᴀssive Arthur’s Stone, and they may have solved an ancient mystery. Arthur’s Stone which inspired the ‘stone table’ in C.S. Lewis’ The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe is one of the UK’s most famous Stone Age […]
Rudra – Mighty Hindu God Of Death, Destruction, Hunting Who Heals Mortal Diseases
Angela Sutherland – AncientPages.com – In the Rig Veda, an ancient Indian collection of Vedic Sanskrit hymns, some of them are dedicated to a powerful and complex god Rudra, praised as the ‘mightiest of the mighty.’ He is Lord of Yoga, the one who restores the wholeness of the absolute. However, he is much more than […]
Mystery Of The Lost Continent Destroyed By An Ancient Cataclysm – Wars Between The ‘Yellow Men And Black’ Men – Part 1
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Our oceans are still vastly unexplored, and ruins of ancient, advanced civilizations still await our discovery. There are many ancient accounts of prehistoric cities and even whole continents that were destroyed by cataclysms. The theory there were many ancient civilizations we have still not found traces of is worthy of […]