A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – Pax Deorum (“peace of the gods”) signified the central goal of the Roman state religion. The Pax Deorum provided divine protection to the Roman Empire, which needed this kind of security as much as material protection from
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Netflix’s new movie about Queen Cleopatra has upset many people. Starring Adele James as Cleopatra, John Partridge as Julius Caesar, Craig Russell as Marc Antony, and Michael Greco as Cleopatra’s brother Pothinus the four-part series launches
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – What the human genome is lacking compared with the genomes of other primates might have been as crucial to the development of humankind as what has been added during our evolutionary history, according to a
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists excavating in the ancient Egyptian seaport Berenice Troglodytica (also knowns as Briniki ) on the western shore of the Red Sea have unearthed a curious ancient Buddha figurine. The statue of a Roman-era Buddha
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Paleontologists from Brazil and Chile reveal an important discovery about the past of the most inhospitable continent on Earth, Antarctica. Today covered in snow, in the past, however, the location was not like this.
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The Picts of Scotland who have long intrigued and have been ascribed exotic origins in fact descended from indigenous Iron Age society and were genetically most similar to people living today in Scotland, Wales, North
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Three new Roman fortified camps have been identified across northern Arabia by a remote sensing survey by the University of Oxford’s School of Archaeology. Oblique view of the western camp from the south-west. Possible rectilinear
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Botanists and paleontologists, led by researchers from CU Boulder, have identified a fossil chili pepper that may rewrite the geography and evolutionary timeline of the tomato plant family. The team’s findings, published in the journal
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Maritime history dates back thousands of years, och there is no doubt many ancient civilizations had excellent knowledge of navigation and sailing. Once ancient civilizations understood the value of trading, many maritime routes were established,
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Persistent burial practices over many centuries challenge simplistic assumptions about ancient culture. View across Boquerón Bay, Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, with the Ortiz site in the distance. Image credit: William J. Pestle, CC-BY 4.0 The
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Commercial production of luxury “Gaza wine” was long assumed to be the economic basis of Late Antique settlement in the Negev Desert. Scientists have long studied the subject. View of Ein Avdat in the Zin Valley
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – A previously overlooked letter and a news article that was never published, both written in 1953, add to other lines of evidence showing Rosalind Franklin was an equal contributor—not a victim—in the discovery of
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Scientists have found evidence—locked into an ancient stalagmite from a cave in the Himalayas—of a series of severe and lengthy droughts which may have upturned the Bronze Age Indus Civilization. The beginning of this arid
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A new study reveals that Nerja is the European cave containing Paleolithic Art with the most confirmed and recurrent visits during prehistory. For 41,000 years, human beings have been visiting the Cave of Nerja; for
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – There’s a crisis unfolding in the field of linguistics: Global language experts estimate that, without intervention, about one language will be lost every month for the next 40 years. Credit: Adobe Stock – melita A
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The first people to live in the Americas migrated from Siberia across the Bering land bridge more than 20,000 years ago. Some made their way as far south as Tierra del Fuego, at the tip
