Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Anyone, regardless of age, place, and nation, can always find something of archaeological value. You have to keep your eyes open; before you know it, you are looking at something hundreds or thousands of years
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – This year, excavations carried out in the ancient city of Hadrianapolis revealed remains of galleries and halls with traces of life dated to Byzantine and Roman times. Image credit: Karabük – Anadolu Agency The discovery
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – When Britannia Archaeology experts started excavating near Ely, Cambridgeshire, UK, they thought it would be a short project, but they were wrong. The scientists have been digging at the site for nearly a year, and
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists have discovered a remarkably well-preserved dugout canoe from the Early Iron Age in Lake Neuchâtel in western Switzerland. According to the Vaud canton’s archaeology department, the 13-meter-long canoe was resting at a depth of
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists in Mexico have discovered a painted ancient vault lid, decorated with a depiction of a serpent. Find painted vault top, Ek’ Balam. Photo: INAH. The Ministry of Culture of the Government of Mexico, through
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Scientists have created an impressive 3D reconstruction of Principia, the legionary fortress in Novae (Bulgaria). By restoring inscribed monuments from the site in the 3D model, the research team has uncovered how the Roman army
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – About 9,000 years ago, an influential and respected woman was put to rest in a burial in Bad Dürrenberg, Germany. She was buried in a sitting position with a child of about six months in
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Scientists discovered ancient Roman walls while excavating a gravel quarry in central Switzerland. Archaeologists say this is a highly significant find and call the discovery an archaeological sensation. Why are these ancient Roman walls so
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Using geological samples from the Ythan Estuary in Scotland, scientists have identified a melting ice sheet as the probable trigger of a major climate-change event just over 8,000 years ago. And the analysis—involving a
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A fascinating archaeological discovery has been made in the ancient city of Kayalipinar, Turkey. Archaeologists report unearthing ancient clay seal impressions that could re-write the history of the Hittites. Kayalipinar was once an important place
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A tunnel discovered under the ruins of the Saxon Palace in Warsaw is the most mysterious place on Piłsudski Square, says the Pałac Saski company spokesman Sławomir Kuliński. The tunnel, located at the depth of
AncientPages.com – In 1933 a mysterious fossil skull was discovered near Harbin City in the Heilongjiang province of north-eastern China. Despite being nearly perfectly preserved – with square eye sockets, thick brow ridges and large teeth – nobody could work
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeological excavations conducted at the Aşağıseyit Mound site in western Anatolia’s Denizli have revealed a 3,500-year-old grape seed. In the excavations at Aşağıseyit Höyük, located in the Çal district, remains of a grape seed estimated
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – A pioneering study has shed new light on North African humid periods that have occurred over the past 800,000 years and explains why the Sahara Desert was periodically green. The research, published in Nature Communications,
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Namibia is rich in hunter-gatherer rock art from the Later Stone Age (LSA); this is a tradition of which well-executed engravings of animal tracks in large numbers are characteristic. Hidden panel of the RAS 8
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists from the Canterbury Archaeological Trust (CAT) have found a spectacular statue of the Roman sea god Triton during their excavations in connection with a new housing development being brought forward jointly by Moat Homes
