Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists have opened an Etruscan tomb that has remained sealed for about 2,600 years. The double-chambered tomb located in the Osteria necropolis in Vulci, a rich Etruscan city in what is now northern Lazio, central
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A research team led by the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE) and Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) has identified the most widespread genetic contribution by Denisovans to date. The study reveals that the genetic variant observed,
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The story of the unique Late Bronze Age logboat started many years ago. It has taken scientists and other experts many years to recover, restore, and put the fascinating 9m (or 30 ft) long logboat
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The world’s oldest human statue has been unearthed in Karahan Tepe, Turkey. The 7.5-foot-tall statue is estimated to be about 11,000 years and depicts a man clutching his penis with both hands. The 7.5ft (2.3m)-tall
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists working in the western part of Racibórz, called Studzienna, Poland, have unearthed stone tools that are 130,000 years old, or possibly even older. These are the oldest traces of human presence in the foreground
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A massive ancient statue of the Mesopotamian deity Lamassu has been unearthed at the Dur-Sharrukin archaeological site, Khorsabad, in Nineveh, Iraq. The Iraqi State Board of Antiquities and Heritage (SBAH) informs a joined Iraqi-French archaeological
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The vast necropolis of Pontecagnano in the province of Salerno, Italy, contains almost 10,000 burials dating from 3000 B.C. to the third century C.E. The excavation of the necropolis started by Bruno D’Agostino in 1962
Jan Bartek – AncientPages – During an archaeological survey in Pezinok, a town near Bratislava, Slovakia, scientists unearthed several remarkable objects. The territory is part of an important historical mining site in the Little Carpathians, and the findings show that
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – In a twist in the ancient human story, emerging evidence suggests that we may have worn shoes as early as the Middle Stone Age (75,000—150,000 years ago). This could mean that our species had complex
AncientPages.com – Excavations on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi have uncovered two unique and deadly artifacts dating back some 7,000 years—tiger shark teeth that were used as blades. Modified tiger shark teeth found in 7,000-year-old layers of Leang Panninge (top)
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists have used declassified spy satellite imagery from the 1960s and 70s to reevaluate one of the first aerial archaeology surveys ever, revealing 396 previously undiscovered Roman forts in what is now Syria and Iraq.
AncientPages.com – About 400 years ago, the European witch hunts were at their peak. Between the 15th and 18th centuries, an estimated 50,000 people, mostly women, were executed for witchcraft across Europe. Witches on broomsticks, featured in The History of
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Located on Mount Carmel in northern Israel, the prehistoric Kebara Cave is a tremendous paleoanthropological and archaeological site. Evidence shows that the cave was occupied by humans and animals as far back as 200,000 years
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Geologists have long known that around 155 million years ago, a 5000 km long piece of continent broke off western Australia and drifted away. They can see that by the ‘void’ it left behind:
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – As many as 25,000 statues of ancient Egyptian deities and Ushabti figurines crafted from faience have been revealed to the public for the first time. Credit: Supreme Council of Antiquities As explained earlier on Ancient
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Ancient people immigrated to Cancun Island and were treated just like locals, according to a study. The Late Postclassic (AD 1200-1500) in the northern Maya lowlands was a period of major changes, including the development
