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Coventry’s Mysterious Ogham Stone Displayed At Herbert Art Gallery And Museum
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Graham Senior, a geography teacher, was tidying his garden when he suddenly discovered a mysterious ancient Ogham stone in Coventry. This particular stone, measuring 11cm in length, features several horizontal incisions along its side. When Senior shared photographs of the rock with the Portable Antiquities Scheme, they confirmed that the markings were indeed ogham inscriptions…
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Devastating fire 2,200 years ago preserved a moment of life and war in Iron Age Spain
IMAGE: BUILDING G AS IT MIGHT HAVE LOOKED BEFORE THE FIRE, INTERPRETED BY FRANCESC RIART, ILLUSTRATOR. view more CREDIT: RECONSTRUCTION BY FRANCESC RIART, ILLUSTRATOR. SHARED BY KIND PERMISSION OF THE AUTHORS. A ruined building in the middle of the Pyrenees records a tragedy for the people who lived there — a devastating fire which burned a settlement to the ground,…
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Early arrival and expansion of palaeolithic people on Cyprus
IMAGE: DROUSEIA SKLOINIKIA, THE NEWEST ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE ON THE AKAMAS PENINSULA IN WESTERN CYPRUS. IMAGE CREDIT: MICHALAKIS CHRISTOFOROU. view more CREDIT: MICHALAKIS CHRISTOFOROU. The patterns of dispersal of early humans across continents and islands are hotly debated, but researchers have found that Pleistocene hunter-gatherers settled in Cyprus thousands of years earlier than previously thought. In examining the timing of the…
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Egyptian pyramids built along long-lost Ahramat branch of the Nile
Peer-Reviewed Publication IMAGE: THE WATER COURSE OF THE ANCIENT AHRAMAT BRANCH BORDERS A LARGE NUMBER OF PYRAMIDS DATING FROM THE OLD KINGDOM TO THE SECOND INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, SPANNING BETWEEN THE THIRD DYNASTY AND THE THIRTEENTH DYNASTY. view more CREDIT: EMAN GHONEIM 31 pyramids in Egypt, including the Giza pyramid complex, may originally have been built along a 64-km-long branch of…
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Evidence Of Yue – Ancient Chinese Criminal Punishment Found At Sanmenxia City
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The discovery of two ancient skeletons exhibiting remarkably similar injuries is an intriguing archaeological find. These unrelated individuals, who lived over 2,000 years ago, both had approximately one-fifth of their lower leg bones missing, with the precise length of bone loss matching down to the centimeter. This peculiar coincidence has piqued the interest of researchers, as…
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Paleolithic Inhabitants Of Cyprus Established Settlements Much Earlier Than Previously Estimated
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The dispersal patterns of early humans across continents and islands have long been the subject of intense scholarly debate. Drouseia Skloinikia, the newest archaeological site on the Akamas Peninsula in western Cyprus. Image credit: Michalakis Christoforou. Image credit: Michalakis Christoforou. A recent study suggests that Pleistocene hunter-gatherers established settlements on the island of Cyprus significantly…
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Seafood on the menu in episode three of ‘Rousay Tales’ podcast
‘Fishing’, the third episode of the new Rousay Tales podcast is available now. For full credits and contributors select MORE INFO on the player Episode three of the new Rousay Tales podcast is now available. In Fishing we’ll hear about the diet of Rousay’s vikings, meet some whalers and follow the herring boats. We’ll set some creels and drop in…
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Mysterious Bronze Age Burial Chamber Discovered In Devon, UK
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A remarkable archaeological discovery has been made in Dartmoor National Park, located in Devon, southwest England. Archaeologists have uncovered a mysterious structure that is believed to date back thousands of years to the Bronze Age, approximately 4,000 years ago. The structure appears to be a cist, a coffin-like, stone-built box or burial chamber used to…
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Why Were Egyptian Pyramids Built Along Long-Lost Ahramat Branch Of The Nile?
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The ancient pyramids of Egypt, including the iconic Giza pyramid complex, were likely constructed along a now-buried branch of the River Nile. Recent research suggests that this 64-kilometer-long branch once flowed through the area where these pyramids are concentrated, explaining their seemingly peculiar location in the present-day narrow desert strip. The causeways of the four Pyramids…
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Rare Medieval Hall Found Near Norman Castle At Skipsea, UK
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A team of archaeologists from the University of York has returned to Skipsea in East Yorkshire to excavate the remains of a medieval timber hall discovered near the site of a Norman castle. Skipsea, a village in the East Riding of Yorkshire, was once home to three interconnected freshwater lakes: Skipsea Bail Mere, Skipsea Low…
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