Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeological sites along the Libyan shoreline are at risk of being damaged or lost due to increasing coastal erosion, according to a new study. The Cyrenaican coast of Eastern Libya, stretching from the Gulf of
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Conservators and curators from the Art Gallery of New South Wales have used an advanced imaging technique at the Australian Synchrotron to gain more information about an underpainting in a famous Renaissance portrait of Cosimo
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Long obscured in the shadows of history, the world’s first nomadic empire—the Xiongnu—is, at last, coming into view thanks to painstaking archaeological excavations and new ancient DNA evidence. Arising on the Mongolian steppe 1,500 years
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – While investigating at Waskiri, near the Lauca River and the Bolivian-Chilean border, archaeologists made a curious discovery. Scientists found an impressive circular construction on a small hill at the site. The Waskiri structure surprised researchers
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – One can imagine how astonished scientists were when they found the remains of a previously undiscovered species of an extinct primordial giant worm with terrifying snapping jaws hidden in a museum. Compared to today’s
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Traces of the past remain hidden in rivers, lakes and seas. But we rarely look underwater and, as they say, out of sight is out of mind. In his inaugural lecture Martijn Manders will explain
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A researcher at the University of Kentucky is helping solve a mystery on the coast of North Carolina: Where did coal found on the shipwrecked Queen Anne’s Revenge come from? About 300 years ago, a
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – An analysis of ancient genomes suggests that different branches of the human family tree interbred multiple times and that some humans carry DNA from an archaic, unknown ancestor. Who was this mysterious ancient individual? Roughly
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Ancient Roman coins have previously been discovered on Gotland in Sweden. However, coming across similar ancient items on the deserted island of Gotska Sandön does not happen often. It’s a unique discovery due to the
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The Denisovans and the Neanderthals are long gone, but their DNA can be found in certain modern humans. According to researchers, some present-day humans derive up to ~5% of their ancestry from archaic Denisovans, an
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Scientists have described a new species of bat based on the oldest bat skeletons ever recovered. The study on the extinct bat, which lived in Wyoming about 52 million years ago, supports the idea
AncientPages.com – In May and June of 2018, Australia’s first near-complete skull of a sauropod – a group of long-tailed, long-necked, small-headed dinosaurs – was found on a sheep station northwest of Winton in Queensland. The original skull bones of
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Underwater archaeologists have discovered an amazing ancient temple with marble altars at the bottom of the sea of Pozzuoli in the Italian region of Campania. The two Roman-age marble altars, datable to the first half of
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A pair of nice sandals were discovered during excavation works at the Harbor of Eleutherios (Theodosius), one of the ports of ancient Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, located beneath the modern Yenikapi neighborhood of
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – An almost meter-long footprint made by a giant, a meat-eating theropod dinosaur from the Jurassic Period represents the largest of its kind ever found in Yorkshire. Curiously, the unusual footprint appears to capture the
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A previously unknown underground tunnel estimated to be about 1,500 years have been unearthed during ongoing archaeological excavations in 1,500-year-old St. Polyeuktos Church in Istanbul’s Saraçhane Archaeological Park in Turkey. The church was an ancient Byzantine
