Ancient Civilizations
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Do you know that if you linked together all the Inca roads…
…it would almost wrap around the circumference of our entire planet? THE INCA ROAD SYSTEM WAS THE MOST EXTENSIVE AND ADVANCED TRANSPORTATION…
An Exciting Discovery of 800+ Ancient Egyptian Tombs at the Middle Kingdom Necropolis
The Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities and the Supreme Council of Antiquities have announced the discovery of over 800 ancient tombs, which in…
Ancient Fourni archipelago ship graveyard reveals 45 wrecks spanning thousands of years
Ulysses and the Sirens, 1909 by Draper, Herbert James (1864-1920). Ancient mythology had many supernatural explanations for dangerous waterw…
Ancient Logbook Documenting Great Pyramid’s Construction Unveiled
Here, one of the papyri in the ancient logbook, which documented the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza. A logbook that contains rec…
Mystery of the Mummy from KV55: Dr. Zahi Hawass
Akhenaten, Egypt’s first and only monotheistic Pharaoh, has intrigued Egyptologists for centuries. Has the Egyptian Mummy Project finally fo…
5,000 year old Egyptian hieroglyphs found in Australia?
According to research, these hieroglyphs were first sighted in the 1900’s and there are about 250 stone carvings that have been part of the …
Ancient Unknown Underwater City With Large Columns And Sarcophagus Discovered Off Marmara Sea
In the Roman era there was a busy sea trade in this region, these new findings just verified that thesis. An amateur diver has discovered an…
Roman coins unearthed in Devon prompt historians to redraw map of the empire
Credit: Article by Jess Staufenberg – Independent.com (6-23-2016) The boundary of the Roman Empire and its influence in Britain are being …
Naval Bases Found That Once Guarded World’s First Democracy
The trireme “Olympias,” a modern replica. (Wikimedia Commons) Archaeologists have discovered massive naval bases that once enabled Athens to…
Burial sites show how Nubians, Egyptians integrated communities thousands of years ago
Michele Buzon, a Purdue University associate professor of anthropology, is excavating pyramid tombs in Tombos, Sudan to study Egyptian and N…
The Throne Of The Gods – An Awe Inspiring And Enigmatic Ancient Place is Mount Nemrut, Turkey
Antiochus I, an Armenian king whose lineage connected him to the Seleucids, Ptolemies, and Macedonians, ruled the small territory of Commage…
‘Royal Game Of Ur’ – One Of The Oldest Game Boards Discovered
Question: What was the Royal Game Of Ur?Answer: In the ancient world, board games were as popular as they are today. Board games were very…
Beads Found in 3,400-year-old ‘Nordic Graves’ Were Made by King Tut’s Glassmaker
An elaborate glass bead with amber embedding found in a 3400-year old Danish grave turns out to have come from ancient Egypt. (Credit: Rober…
Tutankhamun’s dagger ‘originated’ from outer space.
According to a revised study, the dagger that once belonged to Pharaoh Tutankhamun has a curious extraterrestrial composition. Researchers s…
2,300-Year-Old Pure Gold Crown Forgotten Under Pensioner’s Bed
An elderly man was stunned when he discovered that a box of trinkets he inherited from his grandfather contained an ancient Greek crown made…
Ancient Device for Determining Taxes Discovered in Egypt
The nilometer was used to predict harvest (and taxes) linked to the rise and fall of the Nile River Stone steps uncovered at the ancient por…
3,700-year-old Egyptian scarab seal found by Israeli birdwatcher!
The seal, found near the Tel Dor archeological site near Mount Carmel, belonged to a senior Egyptian official of the Thirteenth Pharaonic dy…
Cracking the Maya Code: Timeline of Decipherment
When the Spanish conquered the Maya empire in the 16th century, they forced their new subjects to convert to Christianity and speak and writ…
Shigir Idol has ‘encrypted codes’ and could be 11,000 years old
The Idol is more than 6,000 years older than the UK’s Stonehenge. More than twice the age of the Egyptian pyramids, the wooden monument – fo…
Archaeologists Find Sunken Egyptian City
In an article written by ABC News back in June of 2001, they make mention of an ancient Egyptian city that was discovered 6.5 km off of mode…
Lost Mayan cities discovered in Mexican jungle
In the 1970s, an American explorer named Eric Von Euw explored a forest at the base of the Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula near the border of Gua…
Egyptian pyramids found by infra-red satellite images
The BBC Reports–Seventeen lost pyramids are among the buildings identified in a new satellite survey of Egypt. More than 1,000 tombs and 3,0…
A Mysterious Fireball Crashing To Earth
There have been many stories written about the apocalypse or the end of human civilization. It often focuses on man’s struggle to avoid anni…
The 12 Egyptian God / Goddess Signs: Here Is What Your Egyptian Zodiac Sign Says about You!
The ancient Egyptian people had their astrological study that included an entirely different Zodiac system. Eleven out of twelve of them are…