Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Pre-Hispanic skeleton recently unearthed in Palenque belongs to a foreign woman, reveals the detailed analysis conducted by experts from INAH (National Institute of Anthropology and History). Skull of the “Lady SAS”. Photo: Mauricio Marat. INAH Thanks to
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – For the first time in nearly 50 years, the sarcophagus of Pharaoh Ramses II will go on display and can be admired by the public. “The long-awaited and dazzling exhibition dedicated to one of Egyptian
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – How can we reconstruct Earth’s 4.5-billion-year history using only the few traces of data left in the present? How can scientific models represent a system as complex as the Earth? Are we approaching a sixth
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Dinosaurs as big as buses or five-story buildings would not be possible if their bones were dense and heavy like ours. Like present-day birds, dinosaurs had hollow bones with inner structures known as air
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A series of ancient dwellings have been discovered at the site of a new housing development in Newquay. Archaeologists from the Cornwall Archaeological Unit have uncovered three Bronze Age roundhouses, a Roman-period settlement consisting of
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Many have never heard of Viking Botvid, but his story is remarkable, and his legacy is still alive in Sweden. Botvid was born in a time when the Norse God Odin was worshipped, but this
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – A new study suggests that predatory dinosaurs, such as Tyrannosaurus rex, did not have permanently exposed teeth as depicted in films such as Jurassic Park, but instead had scaly, lizard-like lips covering and sealing
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Long before dinosaurs, Earth was dominated by animals that were in many ways even more incredible. Carnivores such as Titanophoneus, or “titanic murderer,” stalked enormous armored reptiles the size of buffalo. An international team
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – A new study attempts to address a persistent problem in paleontology—what were the size of Dunkleosteus and other late Devonian arthrodire placoderms. Arthrodire placoderms are extinct fishes that had armor covering their head and
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists Dr. Lorenzo de Lellis and Dr. Maciej Wyżgoł unexpectedly stumbled upon an enigmatic complex of rooms made of sun-dried brick, the interiors of which were covered with figural scenes unique for Christian art. The
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Why were young girls buried, adorned with fine gold jewelry, in Jerusalem in the Roman period? Photographer: Emil Aladjem, Israel Antiquities Authority Impressive items of gold jewelry, discovered in past excavations in burial caves in
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists excavating in Rennes, France, have discovered many objects up to 1,800 years old. Among these precious ancient items are statuettes of the goddess Venus, pottery, coins, clothing pins, shards of glass, crockery, and other
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Reduced predictability of seasonal rainfall might have played a significant role in the disintegration of Classic Maya societies about 1,100 years ago. “Decline in seasonal predictability potentially destabilized Classic Maya societies” is a new study
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Scientists have reconstructed the face of a man who lived 35,000 years ago in Egypt. His remains, an almost complete skeleton, with the exception of the distal parts of the feet and hands, were found
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – About 1,300 years ago, a scribe in Palestine took a book of the Gospels inscribed with a Syriac text and erased it. Parchment was scarce in the desert in the Middle Ages, so manuscripts were
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists excavating near Buckingham, UK, have found an interesting Mesolithic stone mace head. Mesolithic hunter-gather activity is believed to have focussed on resource-rich areas such as woodland and alongside watercourses, with recorded sites generally situated
