Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – While excavating at the mountain, scientists discovered something ancient and unusual hidden inside an underground structure. Soon, all excavations were stopped. Is it an ancient unknown civilization or a priceless prehistoric treasure buried beneath the
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Over 100 letters sent to French sailors by their fiancées, wives, parents and siblings — but never delivered — have been opened and studied for the first time since they were written in 1757-8. Anne Le
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Researchers have found that previous studies analyzing the genomes of people with European ancestry may have reported inaccurate results by not fully accounting for population structure. By considering mixed genetic lineages, researchers at the National
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Vikings, traditionally depicted as primitive bearded warriors, had a fondness for some of life’s precious things. In Europe, hundreds of buried hoards of silver testify to its attraction for Vikings when they lived more than
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists have unearthed a strange 1,000-year-old grave containing the remains of a woman and man. The most curious aspect of this discovery is that the woman’s face is missing. It is almost as if it
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – This autumn, the Polish-Georgian Gonio-Apsaros expedition completed the 10th season of excavations at the Roman fort of Apsaros, south of Batumi on the Black Sea coast of Georgia. The fieldwork of the team headed by
AncientPages.com – The sex of human and other mammal babies is decided by a male-determining gene on the Y chromosome. But the human Y chromosome is degenerating and may disappear in a few million years, leading to our extinction unless
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The hunter-gatherers who settled on the banks of the Haine, a river in southern Belgium, 31,000 years ago were already using spearthrowers to hunt their game. This is the finding of a new study conducted
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – One does not need to be an art expert to recognize the value of the magnificent Golden Tree of Lucignano. Created by goldsmith Gabriello d’Antonio, the Golden Tree is a masterpiece of Italian goldsmithing. Golden
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists in Germany report discovering the largest building of its kind from the Nordic Bronze Age (circa 2200-800 BC). The spectacular find was made near the royal grave of Seddin in the Prignitz district northwest
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The steamship Africa vanished without a trace on a stormy October night in 1895. For 128 years, many wondered what had happened to the ship, and today, we finally have an answer to this question.
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Researchers re-analysed more than 300 sets of 5,000-year-old skeletal remains excavated from a site in Spain. They found that many of the individuals may have been casualties of the earliest period of warfare in Europe,
AncientPages.com – When we think of Neanderthals, we often imagine these distant ancestors of ours to be rather brutish, dying at a young age and ultimately becoming extinct. But findings show that at least some of these ancient Neanderthals survived into
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Earlier this year, scientists reported the discovery of a sophisticated 4,000-year-old steppe pyramid in Kazakhstan. Archaeologists have now found yet another pyramid located on a hill next to the Taldy-Nura River, 13 km east of the
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Paleontologists from Tübingen have redefined a rhinoceros genus that had fallen into oblivion: Eochilotherium lived more than 5 million years ago and did not have a horn on its nose. Hornless rhinos were known to
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – In the 1980s, geophysicists made a startling discovery: two continent-sized blobs of unusual material were found deep near the center of the Earth, one beneath the African continent and one beneath the Pacific Ocean.
