Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A text thought to be lost by the astronomer Claudius Ptolemy (2nd century BC) has been discovered thanks to multispectral imaging, then deciphered and interpreted by two researchers from the Léon Robin Center (Sorbonne University/CNRS),
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists excavating near Garforth in Leeds, UK, have made a “once-in-a-lifetime” find. Scientists report they have discovered multiple ancient burials. The hidden cemetery dating back 1,600 years, contains the remains of at least 60 individuals,
AncientPages.com – A recently discovered note, drawn up by Leonardo da Vinci’s father, Piero, in November 1452, shows that he emancipated an enslaved woman named Caterina. The scholar who found the document (Carlo Vecce, a professor of Italian literature) has suggested that
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – People living on the ‘Swahili coast’ – the Indian Ocean coast of eastern Africa – have African and Asian ancestry according to new research on ancient DNA. One of the sites excavated along the coastline.
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – It sounds a little like Stone Age standup: A Denisovan and a human walk past a bees’ nest heavy with honeycomb. What happens next? According to a study led by University of Alaska Fairbanks biological
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – It is called radiocarbon 3.0, the newest method in radiocarbon dating, and promises to reveal valuable new insights about key events in the earliest human history, starting with the interaction between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A mysterious ancient stone structure was discovered while laying a fiber optic cable in Torreano, a town of 2,060 inhabitants in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, in the province of Udine, in northeastern Italy. The discovery was publicly
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – In their recent publication in the Journal of Human Evolution, UConn Department of Anthropology Professor Christian Tryon and Shara Bailey, Director of the Center for the Study of Human Origins at New York University, detail new
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists using ground-penetrating radar (GPR) have discovered traces of previously unknown graves and settlement activity at several locations along Trondheim Fjord. Scientists hope these discoveries can shed light on state formation, national unification, and religious
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A previously unknown Crusades-era bird pendant found in Lappajärvi in the 1960s is now in the collection of the Finnish Heritage Agency. The late Iron Age pendant was initially found in a cow pasture in
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A scientist has conducted a spatial analysis of the faunal remains and lithic tools for the Neanderthal occupation of level F at the Navalmaíllo Rock Shelter site (Pinilla del Valle, Madrid), which is about 76,000
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A metal detector has found an ancient Roman fragment made of silver in Norfolk. The piece was obviously part of something, but what exactly? Is it part of an ancient Roman inscription or some unknown
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Ludwig van Beethoven’s genome has been sequenced for the first time by an international team of scientists using five genetically matching locks of the well-known composer’s hair. Painting of Ludwig Van Beethoven by Joseph Karl
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – An inscription on the Temple of Delphi says: “Know thyself, and thou wilt know the universe and the gods.” It is only one sentence, yet it contains so much wisdom and a goal many find challenging.
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – An ancient mosaic floor adorned with colorful floral designs has been re-uncovered after 40 years, along the Israel National Trail. The mosaic floor of an ancient church was first discovered in the 1980s but was
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A unique 1,000-year-old medieval golden treasure was unearthed by a Dutch historian, who stumbled upon it while using a metal detector. Part of the 1000-year-old medieval treasure discovered in Hoogwoud, Netherlands, consisting of jewellery and silver
