Jan Bartek – MessageToEagle.com – A medieval ring from the late 9th to mid 10th century, discovered in the stronghold (a medieval ring-fort) in Grzybowo near Gniezno, a
Conny Waters – MessageToEagle.com – There is little information about these ancient ivory manikins that have been a bit of medical mystery until now. Ancient ivory manikins are
MessageToEagle.com – Drinking horns were popular among many different ancient cultures. They were used by Scandinavians, Greeks, Romans, Thracians, Scythians and people in Africa. People have been drinking from
MessageToEagle.com – Can you solve this ancient riddle? Is it a human-like figure with a bird-like face, a bird-like entity or something entirely different? This particular ancient artifact
MessageToEagle.com – This artifact is very peculiar and intriguing. It is a small nail with six faces and six eyes. Can you solve this ancient mystery? Why are
MessageToEagle.com – The Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III is limestone monument that celebrates thirty-one successful years of military campaigns by king Shalmaneser III and his prominent minister. Black Obelisk
MessageToEagle.com – Just as in ancient Egypt, music played a very important role in Assyria and Babylonia. While the Egyptians believed that music was the voice of god,
MessageToEagle.com – Sumerian writing was invented in the second half of the fourth millennium BC. Initially it was used to write Sumerian language; later, however, it was also
MessageToEagle.com – Ancient ruins and mounds of Mesopotamia have revealed many precious artifacts, thousands of tablets, statuettes, and various other treasures which are now in the Louvre. Among
A. Sutherland – MessageToEagle.com – In 1904, the greatest prehistoric gold treasure preserved in Scandinavia was found in Timboholm, just outside Skövde, Sweden. Its total weight is 7.084
MessageToEagle.com – The Codex Borgia (or Codex Yoalli Ehēcatl) has a somewhat obscure past. There is a special group of mostly pre-Columbian manuscripts that originate from central Mexico. These
MessageToEagle.com – Archaeological excavations and interviews with professional grave diggers – “guaqueros” are the main source of what is known about the Malagana Treasure. The Malagana Treasure is
MessageToEagle.com – The oldest evidence of printing is the stamping of inscriptions into the soft clay of bricks before firing. This was done by Sumerian Naram-Sîn of Akkad
MessageToEagle.com – The Vatican Vergilius Vaticanus, (also known as the Vatican Vergil), a manuscript created in ancient Rome around 400 A.D, is one of the oldest manuscripts in existence
MessageToEagle.com – In the late 1820s, when Joseph Smith announced that he’d recovered an ancient book that had been written on metal plates and concealed by one of
MessageToEagle.com – The modern city of Amman (biblical Hebrew Rabbath Ammon), Jordan, sits on the site of ancient Rabbath-ammon, capital of the territory of Ammon. Ammon, located to
MessageToEagle.com – The Pillar of the Boatmen is a free-standing sculpture containing sixteen carved images from the Greco-Roman pantheon, Celtic divinities and inscriptions highlighted in red ocher. While
MessageToEagle.com – This tapestry was unearthed during excavations in 1983/84 at an ancient burial site in the Tarim Basin’s oasis settlement of Sampul (or Shanpula) in western China.
MessageToEagle.com – Hittites were one of the most important ancient civilizations of Asia Minor. They ruled the central Anatolian kingdom of Hatti from c. 1900 – 800 BC., and worshiped
A.Sutherland – MessageToEagle.com – The famous Terrace of the Lions on Delos that dates to 3,000 BC, was erected north of the sanctuary of Apollo overlooking the Sacred
MessageToEagle.com – The gold helmet of King Meskalamdug (Mes-Kalam-Dug ) was found by Sir Leonard Woolley (1880 – 1960), a British archaeologist best known for his excavations at Ur
MessageToEagle.com – World’s oldest enigma machine has been standing at the Post and Tele Museum in Copenhagen, Denmark for 16 years. It wasn’t really known until recently that this
MessageToEagle.com – A fascinating display “Containing the Divine: a Sculpture of the Pacific God A’a “ is open at the British Museum until 30 May, 2016. It is devoted
MessageToEagle.com – This remarkable limestone slab dated to around 2300 BC, was probably intended to hang the slab to the wall in the ritual part of the shrine. Perforated
MessageToEagle.com – Hnefatafl or tafl was an ancient Viking board game that became very popular in medieval Scandinavia. The board game was played by the Vikings as early as 400
