Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Was it once a child’s toy or someone’s idea of a practical joke? We may never find an answer to this question, but the Roman leather toy mouse discovered at Vindolanda is fascinating. The fort of
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Underwater archaeologists have discovered rare, well-preserved cloth fragments, dwellings, baskets, weaving swords, and much more while examining a site near Rome, Italy. The submerged settlement La Marmotta in the comune of Anguillara Sabazia, approximately 30km north-west
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Paleontologists have discovered the oldest known burial site in the world, containing remains of a small-brained distant relative of humans previously thought incapable of complex behavior. The bones were buried about 30 meters (100 feet)
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – How do today’s Indigenous communities of South America trace back to the history of human migration and contact in the continent? Graphical abstract. Credit: Current Biology (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.05.013 An international team has worked to
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists in York have used 3D scans to study the Roman burial practice of pouring liquid gypsum over the bodies of adults and children laid to rest in coffins—the first time this cutting-edge technology has
AncientPages.com – Just over two decades ago, as the new millennium began, it seemed that tracks left by our ancient human ancestors dating back more than about 50,000 years were excessively rare. Only four sites had been reported in the whole
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Scientists excavating a fortress site in southern Georgia aim to uncover why communities in this area were more resilient than in other parts of the world at the end of the Bronze Age – a
AncientPages.com – Given its huge success in describing the natural world for the past 150 years, the theory of evolution is remarkably misunderstood. In an episode of the Australian series of “I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here,” former
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists excavating in the small village of Thérouanne, located on the river Lys in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France have made some fascinating discoveries. Scientists unearthed 1,700-year-old Roman shoes that are
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com -There is a mysterious ancient city of Djado located on the southern border of the Djado plateau in northeastern Niger. Once, there were several cities on this plateau, but today, the area is largely uninhabited. Ruins
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The existence of legendary Jomsvikings is one of the greatest unsolved Viking mysteries. They are described in Icelandic Sagas as superheroes and a legendary mercenary army. The Jomsvikings were a fearless Scandinavian warrior-brotherhood and no
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The five new archaeological sites have been discovered in the Megalopolis lignite mine in southern Greece contain valuable faunal and cultural remains belonging to the country. Stone tools from the site Kyparissia 4 and Choremi
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Researchers have led the analysis of bracelets found in the tomb of Queen Hetepheres I – the largest and most famous collection of silver artifacts from early Egypt. It is the first analysis of the
AncientPages.com – Palaeontology is the study of evolution and prehistoric life, usually preserved as fossils in rocks. It combines aspects of geology with biology and many other scientific disciplines. But a lot of palaeontology really is about rocks. For 200 years, hammers
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A tip from the local population had led the archaeologists from Frankfurt to the area near the city of Ibra in Oman, where they found several settlements. Irini Biezeveld and her fellow doctoral researcher Jonas
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The Neanderthals and Homo sapiens were both innovative and often devised similar surviving techniques independently. Recently, scientists demonstrated Neanderthals invented or developed birch tar making technique independently from Homo sapiens. In a new study, researchers
