Buried for 2,000 years: Rare Iron Age wooden artifacts emerge from a waterlogged UK site
Buried beneath waterlogged soil for nearly 2,000 years, rare Iron Age wooden artifacts have emerged from excavations in Bedfordshire, England.
Ancient World
Mayan art – learn about the origins of Mayan paintings and sculptures
Around 1500 BCE, small towns in the countryside of Central America began to form. The Mayan civilization would be made up of these groups of people. We call the Maya…
10 most important facts about the Aztecs and their empire
The Aztecs, whose real name was Mexica, were one of the most important and well-known cultures in the Americas. During the Postclassic era, they moved to central Mexico as immigrants…
Amazing things you didn’t know about ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics!
The ancient Egyptians used a way of writing called hieroglyphics. The hieroglyphs were pictures. The hieroglyphs represented sounds in the same way that our letters represented sounds. There were more…
The Sumerian civilization and the contributions it made to the world
The Sumerian people lived in the basin of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. It included the Sumerian civilization. Sumer was the name for the area where the rivers Tigris and…
9 ancient Egyptian tools and weapons used by the pharaoh’s army
During the time of the New Kingdom, from 1550 B.C. Egypt had one of the best and scariest armies in the world between 1500 and 1070 B.C. Even though they…
The mysterious origin of the Glozel artifacts
Have you ever wondered how humans first developed the writing system? The ability to create pictographs and text languages has been always a uniquely human creativity. But unless you believe…
