Unique Bronze Age Treasure Discovered In Swedish Forest Was A Gift To Norse Gods
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – What at first glance looked like garbage turned out to be a valuable Bronze Age treasure. Tommy Karlsson, an orienteering enthusiast, accidentally stumbled upon a treasure trove of 50 Bronze Age relics dating back over 2,500 years. Tommy Karlsson found unique Bronze Age jewelry in a forest in Alingsås, Sweden. […]
Meenakshi Temple Of Madurai Is Among Most Powerful Sacred Sites For Hindu People
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – The Dravidian (or Southern-style) is the earlier of the two main styles in the evolution of sacred Hindu architecture. It is characterized by several architectural masterworks left in the legacy of many ruling dynasties of South India. Their building activities date back from the 7th century onwards. It is worth […]
Amazing Ancient One-Stroke Dragon Art Tradition – Painting Dragons With A Single Brush Stroke
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – If you have the patience and are not determined to compete with some of the world’s most talented artists, painting can be a very relaxing activity. Whether it’s a landscape, people, or abstract forms, painting is beneficial to the mind and soul. Painting improves hand-eye coordination boosts motor skills and […]
Chauvet-Pont d’Arc Cave And Surrounding Landscape – What Did The Ancient Artists See?
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The Chauvet Cave is home to the world’s oldest cave paintings, dating back 36,000 years. Chauvet-Pont d’Arc cave in southeastern France. Credits: mockingbird.creighton.edu Were the stunning images of cave lions, horses, and bulls in the Chauvet-Pont d’Arc cave in southeastern France somewhere in the neighborhood of 20,000 years old, as some researchers have suggested, […]
Ancient Bronze Age Tomb With Highly Unusual Features – Discovered On Dingle Peninsula, Ireland
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The accidental and highly unusual discovery was made during land improvement work on the Dingle Peninsula in County Kerry. Tomb on the Dingle Peninsula in Co Kerry. Some of these tombs have unusual features such as porticos at the western end. Credit: rte.ie A pre-historic Bronze Age tomb was accidentally […]
Pazzi Conspiracy – Failed Murder Attempt On Lorenzo de’ Medici Made Him Even More Powerful And Threw Renaissance Florence Into Chaos
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – He who digs a pit for others falls in himself.’ It is an old saying that has pᴀssed the test of time, and it is undoubtedly true in the case of the hideous murder attempt on Lorenzo de Medici. Those who planned to murder Lorenzo de Medici failed, and by […]
Huge Subterranean Pre-Columbian Shaft Tombs In Tierradentro, Colombia
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – One of the most representative historical and archaeological places of Colombia is Tierradentro, known as the National Archaeological Park located in the municipality of Inzá, Department of Cauca, Colombia. Entrance to the underground tomb with spiral staircase. Image credit: inyucho – CC BY 2.0 The area of Tierradentro holds the […]
Several Climate Crises In Mesopotamia – New Study
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – During the Bronze Age, Mesopotamia was witness to several climate crises. In the long run, these crises prompted the development of stable forms of State and therefore elicited cooperation between political elites and non-elites. The situation was no doubt – dramatic. The large fields produced no grain The flooded fields produced […]
Rene Descartes – Independent French Thinker And His Main Ideas
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – The first philosophical concepts appeared in the Greek colonies around the 7th-6th centuries BC. Initially, they were related to the creation and nature of the world. Statue of René Descartes in La Haye -Descartes. Image source. Therefore, this early stage of human thinking about nature, characterized by materiality, strength, life, […]
Social Tensions Among Ancient Pueblo Societies Contributed To Their Downfall – Not Only Drought
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archeologists have long speculated about the causes of occasional upheavals in the pre-Spanish societies created by the ancestors of contemporary Pueblo peoples. These Ancestral Pueblo communities once occupied the Four Corners area of the U.S. from 500 to 1300 where today Colorado borders Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico. Chaco Canyon: […]