Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The first modern humans spread across Europe in three waves during the Paleolithic, according to a new study. The archaeological record of Paleolithic Europe leaves many open questions regarding the nature of the arrival of
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Artifacts made of stone, bones or teeth provide important insights into the subsistence strategies of early humans, their behavior and culture. However, until now it has been difficult to attribute these artifacts to specific individuals,
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – One question science has long wanted answers to is simple: How cold was the ice age? We now have an answer to this question thanks to a team of scientists who nailed down the temperature
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Cycads, a group of gymnosperms that can resemble miniature palm trees (like the popular sago palm houseplant) were long thought to be “living fossils,” a group that had evolved minimally since the time of
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com -Archaeologists have discovered one of the oldest Cyrillic inscriptions from the time of King Simeon the Great This important discovery was made in the “Balak Dere” fortress near the Ivaylovgrad village of Huhla (Khuhla), Bulgaria, dated
AncientPages.com – Homo sapiens, our own species, evolved in Africa sometime between 300,000 and 200,000 years ago. Anthropologists are pretty confident in that estimate, based on fossil, genetic and archaeological evidence. Then what happened? How modern humans spread throughout the rest of the world is one of the most
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – An impressive discovery of the 2,000-year-old tomb with human remains that belong to a Roman physician, aged between 50 and 60 years, with no signs of disease or trauma, was made by archaeologists from ELTE
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – In 2015, Gkuthaarn and Kukatj community members of Queensland’s Gulf Country invited us to excavate, analyze, and rebury the skeletal remains of eight young Indigenous people who died near the town of Normanton in the
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – An unusually well-preserved “Marine Dwarf World” from 462 million years ago was found at Castle Bank, Wales by a team led by the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology of the Chinese Academy of
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists stumbled upon something extraordinary while excavating a Celtic grave. They discovered a pair of extremely well-preserved scissors and a strangely folded sword in the grave. The excavation team from the Bavarian State Office for
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
