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
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – An unusual blinking fish, the mudskipper, spends much of the day out of the water and provides clues as to how and why blinking might have evolved during the transition to life on land in
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Early human foragers may have relied on eating the partially digested vegetable matter, called digesta, found in the stomachs and digestive tracts of bison and other large game herbivores. Image courtesy: University of Michigan Museum
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – This isn’t the first time the price of eggs has skyrocketed. During the mid-19th-century gold rush, San Francisco’s population ballooned from around 800 to more than 20,000, creating a scarcity of chicken eggs that hiked
Ellen Lloyd– AncientPages.com – It’s difficult to say where we can find traces of the world’s oldest civilization because many ancient underwater ruins still await our discovery. There are many mysteries beneath the waters, and we have only unraveled a
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Recently declared a treasure, it takes one look to realize this Bronze Age ring is unusual. The ancient gold ring was found by a metal detectorist near Aldringham cum Thorpe in north Norfolk, UK. The
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – We now know more about the diet of a prehistoric creature that grew up to two and a half meters long and lived in Australian waters during the time of the dinosaurs, thanks to
