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Archaeologists Discover Ancient Egyptian Mummy Buried with Pages from Homer’s Iliad: When Literature Guided Souls Throug...

Renaissance Europe admired ancient Rome, ancient Rome admired ancient Greece, and ancient Greece admired ancient Egypt. But the admiration could actually go both ways in that last...

Ancient Roman Technique Discovered 8,000 Years Earlier, Study Says

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Four Ancient Greek Mysteries Sparking Controversy To This Day

Ancient Greece is known across the globe for its vast contributions to the very foundations of our modern world. Western ideals, sometimes taken for granted, such as Democratic rul...

The Assyrians: The Civilization That Terrorized the Ancient World

Facts About Chinese History That Make it the Craziest Civilization

Circular Mass Graves East of the Nile Are Rewriting Egypt’s Prehistory

Over 280 ancient mass graves have been discovered east of the Nile, and the monuments predate ancient Egypt.

The ghosting protocols: Cancel culture in ancient Egypt and Rome

Cancel culture isn't a modern invention. Long before viral outrage, the ancient Egyptians were erasing names from monuments, while the Romans elevated the practice into a formal st...

Even MORE Things We Can’t Explain

Archaeologists Just Unearthed An Ancient Egyptian Mummy With A Papyrus Of ‘The Iliad’ Tucked Inside Its Wrapping

A papyrus found within the wrappings of an ancient Egyptian mummy contains a passage from Book 2 of The Iliad that lists the Greek ships sent out to fight in the Trojan War. The po...

History They Never Taught You in School

Remarkably Intact Iron Age Timber-And-Stone Structure Unearthed In Aschaffenburg, Germany

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Workers discovered archaeological structures dating to the 4th century BC while building a stormwater overflow basin north of the Willigis Bridge in...

Mysteries Of Old Europe – Lost Ancient Non-Hierarchical Civilization And Its Giant Structures Investigated By Archaeolog...

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have discovered a giant structure built by one of the most mysterious and unusual civilizations that lived in Europe several thousan...

Architecture of the Old World We’ve Lost Forever

Wind Farm Construction In England Has Turned Up Ancient Ruins Including A Roman Villa And A Neolithic Burial Mound

In addition to the villa and the burial mound, archaeologists uncovered a chair leg shaped like a lion's head and a serpentine vessel handle they've named "Norfolk Nessie." The pos...

Teen stumbles on mysterious coin from legendary city, puzzling archaeologists over its journey

A German teenager recently discovered an ancient Greek coin in Berlin, the first such find in the city, likely left as a grave offering at a Bronze Age cemetery.

These Three Ancient Civilizations Across Three Continents Built Similar Monuments. Were They Mapping The Stars?

A long-standing theory suggests that civilizations in Egypt, Cambodia, and Mexico built similar structures that aligned with a mysterious cosmic event that took place in 10500 B.C....

The Perplexing History Of The Eleusinian Mysteries, The Ancient Greek Rites That Remain Unknown To This Day

The Eleusinian Mysteries were secret rites held to initiate members into the cult of Demeter and Persephone, and they were said to involve hallucinogenic substances and "dreadful,...

A 2,000-year-old stone maze discovered in India could change what we know about ancient Rome links

Ancient Mummy Found with Iliad Text

Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced that a Spanish archaeological mission from the University of Barcelona along with the Institute of the Ancient Near East worki...

Try the Oldest Known Recipe For Toothpaste: From Ancient Egypt, Circa the 4th Century BC

Image of Ancient Egyptian Dentistry, via Wikimedia Commons When we assume that modern improvements are far superior to the practices of the ancients, we might do well to actually l...

Strange Discovery: Fragment Of Homer’s Iliad Hidden Inside Ancient Mummy

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The discovery marks a significant milestone in archaeology: for the first time, a Greek literary text has been found intentionally incorporated in...

Inside Herculaneum, The Roman City That Was Destroyed Alongside Pompeii During The Eruption Of Vesuvius

The ruins of Herculaneum were discovered by accident in the early 18th century, and in the decades since, archaeologists have uncovered charred scrolls, wooden ships, and impeccabl...