Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – LIDAR has once again demonstrated its advantage when locating hidden ancient sites in the jungle. Light Detection and Ranging technology is indispensable to archaeologists who can rely on lasers to penetrate overlying vegetation and cover
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A special find has been made in the Alkmaar Regional Archive: A number of 17th-century book bindings contained pieces of parchment from a manuscript from the 11th century. The original manuscript may have belonged to
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Scientists participating in the National Grid’s Viking Link project report new fascinating discoveries! The Viking Link’s construction will enable the countries to share enough green energy to power up to 1.4 million UK homes. National
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – While conducting salvage works of Section 7 of the Mayan Train, a team of archaeologists from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) unearthed a funerary urn representing the god of corn. Funerary urn depicting
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – During archaeological excavations in Tenea, an ancient Greek town near Corinth, built by Trojan prisoners of war, scientists unearthed a wonderful treasure and intriguing ancient ruins. Credit: Ministry of Culture The excavations at the site, located
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Rock-hewn Ptolemaic and Roman tombs with intriguing golden masks, mummies, coffins, and terracotta statues have been unearthed in the historic city of Al Bahnasa in the Minya governorate, Egypt. Credit: Supreme Council of Antiquities Al-Bahnasa is
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A vast fortification, which is one of the longest known going back 4,000 years was just discovered by a team of scientists from the CNRS1 and the Royal Commission for AlUla (RCU). Location map of
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A groundbreaking study has found that evolution is not as unpredictable as previously thought, which could allow scientists to explore which genes could be useful to tackle real-world issues such as antibiotic resistance, disease and
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – One of the most intriguing archaeological pre-Columbian sites is Teotihuacán, which scientists still know relatively little about. Who were the people who built and lived in Teotihuacán? Established in the northeastern Basin of Mexico, Teotihuacán
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists were baffled, to say the least, when they discovered an ancient Roman necropolis containing 67 dressed skeletons buried in 57 ornate tombs. Unearthing ancient Roman tombs is not remarkable, but this particular find is
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Coal miners in North Dakota have discovered a 7-foot-long (2.1 meters) mammoth tusk that had been buried for thousands of years. A shovel operator at the Freedom Mine near Beulah was working the overnight shift
AncientPages.com – All human beings age. It is part of our biology and limits our lifespan to slightly over 120 years. Not all animals experience ageing during their lives. Some animals’ bodies do not gradually degenerate as they get older the way our bodies
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Those who have studied this unusual subject say that several mysterious books containing remarkable secret knowledge have been deliberately hidden from public view. When reading about this story, we cannot help but wonder whether we
AncientPages.com – The abandoned fieldstone walls of New England are every bit as iconic to the region as lobster pots, town greens, sap buckets and fall foliage. They seem to be everywhere—a latticework of dry, lichen-crusted stone ridges separating a patchwork of
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Scientists have unearthed an ancient Roman temple that adds significant insights into the social change from pagan gods to Christianity within the Roman Empire. The discovery was made by Douglas Boin, Ph.D., a professor of
AncientPages.com – Nicholas Copernicus was the astronomer who, five centuries ago, explained that Earth revolves around the sun, rather than vice versa. A true Renaissance man, he also practiced as a mathematician, engineer, author, economic theorist and medical doctor. Astronomer
