AncientPages.com Archive
Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists based in Germany have examined a 17th-century child mummy, using cutting-edge science alongside historical records to shed new light on Renaissance childhood.
Read More
Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - We can thank the pyramids of Giza for roads. A vital part of our built environment, they've been a staple of human existence
Read More
Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Marine archaeologists from Vrak - Museum of Wreck have found the wreck of the naval vessel Äpplet, Vasa's sister ship. The ship was
Read More
Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers at the University of Gothenburg has shown that the Skaftö wreck had probably taken on cargo in Gdansk in Poland and was
Read More
Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A joint study by TAU and the Hebrew University, involving 20 researchers from different countries and disciplines, has accurately dated 21 destruction layers
Read More
Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The first genetic data from Paleolithic human individuals in the U.K.—the oldest human DNA obtained from the British Isles so far—indicates the presence
Read More
Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - To most children finding something unusual and unexpected is a joy, but discovering a precious, rare ancient artifact must be a memory for
Read More
Featured Stories
AncientPages.com - It was a well-kept secret among historians during the late 19th and early 20th centuries that the practice of magic was widespread in the ancient Mediterranean.
Read More
Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Humans are the only species to live in every environmental niche in the world – from the icesheets to the deserts, rainforests to savannahs. As individuals
Read More
Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - New excavations in Uppåkra, Sweden are at the forefront of cutting edge archaeological techniques. By combining big data, data modeling and DNA sequencing,
Read More
Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The interior of Central Asia has been identified as a key route for some of the earliest hominin migrations across Asia, according to
Read More
Featured Stories
AncientPages.com - During the autumn of 1660, colonists in and around Québec started to report some very strange occurrences. In the sky they saw a man enveloped in
Read More
Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Isthmus of Tehuantepec, a region located in the south of Mexico, is the shortest distance between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans in
Read More
Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists have puzzled over the origin of Namibia's fairy circles for nearly half a century. It boiled down to two main theories: either
Read More
News
Conny Waters - AncientPages-com - An unusual exhibition is taking place in Kentucky, USA. Backed by the Ark Encounter and the associated Creation Museum a full-sized Ark of
Read More
Featured Stories
AncientPages.com - Scientific breakthroughs can happen in the strangest ways and places. Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin because of mold growing on a Petri dish left out while he was on
Read More
Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The first Neanderthal draft genome was published in 2010. Since then, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology have sequenced a
Read More
Archaeology
Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - Oxygen levels in the Earth’s atmosphere are likely to have “fluctuated wildly” one billion years ago, creating conditions that could have accelerated the
Read More
Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - In the Late Viking Age, a grave was built that looks very similar to one of the most spectacular graves of the Roman
Read More
Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new study has shown milk was used by the first farmers from Central Europe in the early Neolithic era around 7,400 years
Read More
Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Advanced techniques to analyze the Dead Sea Scrolls and Eastern papyri are revealing vibrant secrets about daily life in the ancient world. Around
Read More
Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - What did our ancestors eat during the stone age? Mostly meat. Researchers at Tel Aviv University were able to reconstruct the nutrition of
Read More
Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An analysis of obsidian artifacts excavated during the 1960s at two prominent archaeological sites in southwestern Iran suggests that the networks Neolithic people
Read More
Artifacts
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Sarcophagus of the Amazons is a large Etruscan sarcophagus of an unknown artist, dated back to the third quarter of the 4th century
Read More
Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new study has, for the first time used zinc isotope analysis to determine the position of Neanderthals in the food chain. The
Read More
Archaeology
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The Hammer of Thor is frequently mentioned in Norse mythology as a valuable object that belonged to the mighty thunder God Thor. Several
Read More
Featured Stories
AncientPages.com - When most people think about fairies, they perhaps picture the sparkling Tinker Bell from Peter Pan or the other heartwarming and cute fairies and fairy god
Read More
Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A mural of an Aztec rabbit God of alcohol is not something anyone expected to across inside a church, but that's exactly what
Read More
Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Impressive drone footage has revealed an ancient Mesopotamian city known as Lagash challenges long-held ideas about the origin and development of the world’s
Read More