Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists have been interested in El Mirón cave for a long time, and over the years, many fascinating finds have been reported from this corner of the world. First discovered for science in 1903 by
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Something as simple as a grass can fundamentally change the understanding of life in the prehistoric world. Studies published in the journal Science document the earliest evidence for locally abundant C4 grasses in eastern Africa and how C4 grasses
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Historical records have long suggested that Medieval Norse colonists on Greenland (AD 985–1450) relied on imported materials such as iron and wood. Until now, it has not been fully recognized where these wood imports came
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists have discovered the buried remains of a Roman fortlet that once stood next to the Antonine Wall in West Dunbartonshire, the frontier that the Romans constructed across central Scotland. The Roman fortlet was thought
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The Codex Atlanticus is one of the most extensive and fascinating collections of Leonardo da Vinci’s drawings and writings. Its preservation is a great challenge for scholars and researchers. Folio 843 of Codex Atlanticus. Credit:
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – About 100 to 66 million years ago, during the Late Cretaceous, the climate was warmer than the present. Many new species appeared on all continents, including the giant Quetzalcoatlus that lived in North America.
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Through global-scale seismic imaging, scientists have discovered massive ancient ocean floor surrounds the Earth’s core. Near this dense, thin, sunk ocean floor, there are also giant underground ‘mountains” up to 5 times taller than
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – If you could travel back 100,000 years in time, you’d find yourself living among multiple groups of humans, including anatomically modern humans, Neanderthals, and Denisovans. But exactly what our Denisovan relatives might have looked like
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Vikings occupied Greenland from roughly 985 to 1450, farming and building communities before abandoning their settlements and mysteriously vanishing. Why they disappeared has long been a puzzle, but a new paper from the Harvard University
AncientPages.com – Pre-colonial African history is alive with tales of civilizations rising and falling and of different cultures intermingling across the continent. We have now shed more light on some of these societies using the science of genetics. In a
AncientPages.com – Recent excavations at the Villa of the Quintilii uncovered the remains of a unique winery just outside Rome. The mid-third-century CE building located along the Via Appia Antica portrays a sense of opulence and performance almost never found at an ancient production
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Several beautiful Bronze Age and Medieval artifacts unearthed in Wales, UK, have been declared a treasure. Four magnificent objects were discovered across Wrexham, with the remaining four coming from Conwy and Denbighshire. While metal-detecting on
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – The 300 million-year-old Tully monster is one of the weirdest animals scientists have encountered. Researchers have previously said that the ancient animal is so weird it simply doesn’t fit any classification. First discovered in
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Paleolithic people living in very cold environments depended on tight-fitting garments to survive. What tools and techniques were used to produce such clothing about 40,000 years ago has been unclear. According to a recent study,
AncientPages.com – It’s not called the Third Pole for nothing. The Tibetan Plateau forms the major portion of a vast upland area of ice and glaciers that covers some 100,000 square kilometres of Earth’s surface. Modern pastures on the highland Tibetan Plateau.
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – As archaeologists continue to excavate the Saqqara necropolis in Egypt, new impressive findings are being made. The Italian Dutch archeological mission from the Leiden Museum in the Netherlands and the Egyptian Museum in Turin have
