Grotesque Paintings Discovered Hidden Behind Secret Staircase In Palazzo Vecchio, Florence
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – There are places where you can literally “feel” you’re moving back in time. One such place is Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, Italy. Built in 1299, the palace became an icon of Florence. The building acquired its current name when the Medici duke’s residence was moved across the Arno River to […]
Rare Viking Age Treasure Found By Woman Cleaning The House
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – You never know when and where you’ll find something of archaeological value do you? Some people can come across priceless ancient treasures without searching for them. This is what happened to a woman in Norway. While cleaning her parents’ house, Grete Margot Sørum in Valdres, southern Norway discovered as many […]
Life-Sized Stone Busts Reveal For The First Time Faces Of The Tartessian Culture
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists excavating at the Casas de Turuñuelo archeological site in Guareña, Badajoz, Spain, have unearthed five remarkable life-sized stone busts that reveal for the first time the faces of the ancient Tarteso people. The Tartessian culture occupied the southwestern Iberian Peninsula between the 9th and 5th centuries B.C. 2,500-year-old stone […]
Evidence Norse Greenlanders Imported Timber From North America
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Historical records have long suggested that Medieval Norse colonists on Greenland (AD 985–1450) relied on imported materials such as iron and wood. Until now, it has not been fully recognized where these wood imports came from. To find an answer to this question, archaeologists have used wood taxa analysis to […]
Unique Ancient Roman Winery With Marble Tiling And Fountains Of Grape Juice Unearthed In Rome
AncientPages.com – Recent excavations at the Villa of the Quintilii uncovered the remains of a unique winery just outside Rome. The mid-third-century CE building located along the Via Appia Antica portrays a sense of opulence and performance almost never found at an ancient production site. View of the excavated winery at the Villa of the Quintilii on the Via […]
Underwater Nabataean Temple With Marble Altars Discovered In Pozzuoli
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Underwater archaeologists have discovered an amazing ancient temple with marble altars at the bottom of the sea of Pozzuoli in the Italian region of Campania. The two Roman-age marble altars, datable to the first half of the 1st century AD, are inserted inside the great Temple of the Nabateans, now submerged […]
Viking Age Shields From The Gokstad Ship Burial – Re-Examined
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The Gokstad ship was accidentally discovered by two curious young boys who began to dig into the mound to see if they could find anything interesting. What they found caused a sensation in Norway. Onboard the ship was a ᴅᴇᴀᴅ man. He was fully dressed and surrounded by ancient artifacts, […]
Scotland’s Oldest Tartan On Display For The First Time!
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – New scientific research has revealed a piece of tartan found in a peat bog in Glen Affric around forty years ago can be dated to circa 1500-1600 AD, making it the oldest known surviving specimen of true tartan in Scotland. The Scottish Tartans Authority commissioned Dye Analysis and Radiocarbon testing […]
Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mother Might Have Been A Slave – Here’s What The Discovery Reveals About Renaissance Europe
AncientPages.com – A recently discovered note, drawn up by Leonardo da Vinci’s father, Piero, in November 1452, shows that he emancipated an enslaved woman named Caterina. The scholar who found the document (Carlo Vecce, a professor of Italian literature) has suggested that she was Leonardo’s mother. Left: St Catherine of Alexandria as painted by Caravaggio (1598). Museo Nacional […]
Mysterious Ancient Stone Structure Discovered In Torreano, Italy
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A mysterious ancient stone structure was discovered while laying a fiber optic cable in Torreano, a town of 2,060 inhabitants in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, in the province of Udine, in northeastern Italy. The discovery was publicly reported by Ivano Dorbolo, an appreciated designer, scholar of history and archaeology, and administrator of […]