Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Scientists have discovered and analyzed the first direct evidence of basketry among hunter-gatherer societies and early farmers in southern Europe (9,500 and 6,200 years ago), in the Cueva de los Murciélagos of Albuñol (Granada, Spain).
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists have found a 2,300-year-old tomb of a Greek courtesan (hetaira – in Ancient Greek) in a burial cave in Jerusalem. The cremated remains of a young woman were discovered alongside a rare box mirror
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A remarkable archaeological breakthrough has been made with excavating and restoring rooms in the pyramid of Sahura, which is located in Abusir. The discovered chambers are probably storage rooms intended to hold the royal burial
AncientPages.com – When researchers used DNA from the 10,000-year-old “Cheddar Man”, one of Britain’s oldest skeletons, they unveiled what the first inhabitants of what now is Britain actually looked like. But this isn’t the first time DNA from old skeletons
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Birds were an important source of food for hunter-gatherer communities in Upper Mesopotamia at the beginning of the Neolithic period, around 9,000 years BCE. This is shown in a new study by SNSB and LMU
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A research team has found the remains of nine different camelids, making Córdoba one of the main sites featuring this animal on the Iberian Peninsula. Although different sources spoke of the presence of camelids in
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – It does not happen often archaeologists find an ancient unlooted Roman sarcophagus. When it happens, like it just did in France, it is an excellent opportunity to learn more about the past. “It’s quite exceptional,
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Previous studies show Neanderthals invented or developed birch tar making technique independently from Homo sapiens. Studying prehistoric production processes of birch bark tar using computational modeling reveals the kinds of cognition that were required for
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – For two years, archaeologists have been excavating Kremna, an ancient city located in the province of Burdur (Taurus mountains)a city located on the shore of Lake Burdur, in southwestern Turkey. Cremna, Pisidia in Burdur, Turkey.
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A 455-million-year-old fossil fish provides a new perspective on how vertebrates evolved to protect their brains, a study has found. In a paper published in Nature researchers from the University of Birmingham, Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden,
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – About 2,000 years ago, a ship wrecked in the Mediterranean Sea off the eastern shores of Uluburun—in present-day Turkey— carrying tons of rare metal. Since its discovery in 1982, scientists have been studying the Uluburun
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeological excavations have revealed large Roman latrines located in Bet Shean, Israel. These latrines are the largest in the country, with 60 wooden seats available to the public. Being built in an open communal area,
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Scientists have discovered that ancient Roman glass, known as “wow glass,” has formed a strange type of crystal that refracts light in surprising ways. After analyzing archaeological glass fragments from Roman times, scientists realized they
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists excavating at the Archaeological Zone of Palenque in southern Mexico report they have found an ancient Maya nose ornament made of human bone. It is the first time scientists have come across an artifact
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – For as long as anyone can remember, children loved to play with various toys, but kids living a long time ago did not have parents who could walk into a shop and buy something entertaining.
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – As many as 35 beautiful 1,400-year-old gold figures were discovered at a site where a Pagan temple was once located outside Lillehammer, Norway. They are the size of a fingernail and thin as paper, often
