Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Scientists have identified, for the first time, the composition of a Roman perfume more than 2,000 years old thanks to the discovery of a small vessel of ointment in Carmona. Two thousand years ago, in
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Approximately 200 million years ago, Antarctica was attached to South America, Africa, India, and Australia in a single “supercontinent” called Gondwana. Paleontologists have long wondered about the unique mammals that lived only on this ancient
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Scientists have unearthed what could be the world’s oldest known saddle. The well-preserved soft leather saddle recovered from the tomb of a female deceased at the Yanghai cemetery site in the Turfan Basin at the
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Not so long ago, the public was invited to participate in the Carlisle Roman bath excavation. The project, run by Wardell Armstrong, Cumberland Council and Carlisle Cricket Club, has received £56,700 in funding from the
AncientPages.com – Most scientists agree modern humans developed in Africa, more than 200,000 years ago, and that a great human diaspora across much of the rest of the world occurred between perhaps 60,000 and 50,000 years ago. In new research
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The medieval trading center of Rungholt, which is today located in the UNESCO Wadden Sea World Heritage Site and currently the focus of interdisciplinary research, drowned in a storm surge in 1362. The researchers use
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – When most researchers looked at a puzzling group of artifacts discovered at French archaeological sites, they presumed these to be ornaments or clothing. But Justin Garnett saw something else. “They resembled finger loops like those
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A trip back through time in Alberta offers evidence to bolster a recent study suggesting non-avian dinosaurs were already waning over the 10 million years before the cataclysmic event. Credit: Public Domain Non-avian dinosaurs were probably
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The gold bust of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius is so precious it has only been displayed a dozens of times and never in the United States. Made by hammering a single sheet of gold, the
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – If you look at enough dinosaur fossils, you’ll see that their skulls sport an amazing variety of bony ornaments, ranging from the horns of Triceratops and the mohawk-like crests of hadrosaurs to the bumps and
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – This fragment of a fine marble statuette of Heracles, about half a meter high, that was discovered a few years ago at Horbat Tarbenet in the Jezreel Valley (also known as the Valley of Megiddo)
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Using several different methods of DNA analysis, an international research team has found what they consider to be strong evidence of an interbreeding event between Neanderthals and modern humans that occurred tens of thousands of
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – It is not the first time Betej Gabriel, an amateur archaeologist from Gorj in Romania, has made an incredible find using his metal detector. So, when he contacted Ancient Pages and told us about his
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – For more than a century, biologists have wondered what the earliest animals were like when they first arose in the ancient oceans over half a billion years ago. Searching among today’s most primitive-looking animals
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Some events can be so bizarre they are almost unbelievable. Some say we are dealing with an urban legend, while others are convinced the story and witnesses’ sightings are authentic. However, before dismissing something as
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Scientists have found what they believe to be the earliest known evidence of wine drinking in the Americas, inside ceramic artifacts recovered from a small Caribbean island. Forty ceramic sherds were examined in the first
