A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – Wilhelm I Conqueror, also known as “William the Bastard” (ca. 1028 -1087), was King of England and Duke of Normandy. William was the son of Herleva and Robert I, Duke of Normandy, in what was
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Britain’s oldest shoe has been found on a beach in Kent. The shoe, made of leather, is 3,000 years old and was discovered by archaeologist Steve Tomlinson. When Tomlinson found the shoe, he did not
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The saying “there is nothing new under the Sun” seems appropriate when we learn that sanitary hardware was invented long ago. Scientists have unearthed fragments of a 2,400-year-old flush toilet and a bent flush pipe
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The pre-Hispanic Wari culture Wari flourished from about 500 A.D. to 1000 A.D., in the region of Ayacucho region and stretched over Cusco’s rainforest in Peru. The Wari people spoke their own language and produced
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – In their search for silver ore, the Romans established two military camps in the Bad Ems area near Koblenz in the 1st century AD. This is the result of research carried out as part of a
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A fascinating quest to discover the identity of a prolific early-20th-century Indigenous painter has led a Griffith directed research team to the top and bottom of Australia—and to Paris—and has finally given the artist recognition
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists know that people have practiced cranial trephination, a medical procedure that involves cutting a hole in the skull, for thousands of years. They’ve turned up evidence that ancient civilizations across the globe, from South
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – In a new study, several researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder reenacted a small part of a trek that people in the Southwest United States may have made more than 1,000 years ago. Rodger
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – If the emergence of mechanically propelled weapons in prehistory is commonly perceived as one of the hallmarks of advancing modern human populations into the European continent, archery has always been more difficult to trace. Dr.
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists in France have found one of the first residential sites belonging to the prehistoric builders of some of Europe’s first monumental stone structures. During the Neolithic, people in west-central France built many impressive megalithic
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Researchers have recovered and studied archaeological evidence of an ancient stringed musical instrument crafted from deer antler in southern Vietnam. Lead researcher and Ph.D. student Fredeliza Campos from The Australian National University (ANU) said the artifact is
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – New research has revealed humans living on the Mediterranean coast 9,500 years ago may have relied more heavily on a fish diet than previously thought. Led by the University of York’s BioArCh Centre, the study
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Like a merchant of old, balancing the weights of two different commodities on a scale, nature can keep different genetic traits in balance as a species evolves over millions of years. These traits can be
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Engineers from Caltech have discovered that Leonardo da Vinci’s understanding of gravity—though not wholly accurate—was centuries ahead of his time. In an article published in the journal Leonardo, the researchers draw upon a fresh look at
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Inscribed with passages from the Egyptian Book of the Dead, the ancient Egyptian scroll known as the Waziri Papyrus I is over 16 meters long. The Book of the Dead is an ancient Egyptian funerary
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Researchers from the CNRS, Sorbonne Université and Tyndale House (affiliated with the University of Cambridge) have found fragments of the Star Catalogue composed by the Greek astronomer Hipparchus during the 2nd century BC. These texts,
