Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A team of archaeologists from the Universities of Chester and Manchester has made discoveries which shed new light on the communities who inhabited Britain after the end of the last Ice Age. Image credit: University
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Scientists say they have uncovered the first evidence of an unknown ancient ‘Silk Road’ in Israel. Scientists say they have discovered an unknown ancient Silk Road in Israel. Credit: Adobe Stock – Barbara The evidence
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – For the first time in a century, archaeologists excavating in Egypt have discovered a 16 meters long ancient papyrus in the Saqqara area. Upon discovery of the ancient scroll, scientists thought it measured only nine
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Pronounced climate fluctuations and changed conditions for agriculture coincided with the rise and fall of the Persian Empires, according to an international study led by researchers at Linköping University. Konar Sandal – Credit: Pourjafari –
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – “It has been documented since the Renaissance that an air bubble rising in water will deviate from its straight, steady path to perform a periodic zigzag or spiral motion once the bubble is above
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The CENIEH participates in a study in which dental remains of Homo antecessor were analyzed using Micro-Computed Tomography: the results indicate that this thin enamel trait was already present in the genus Homo in the
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Crocodiles were mummified in a unique way at the Egyptian site of Qubbat al-Hawa during the 5th Century BC, according to a study published January 18, 2023 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Bea
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Neanderthals in Combe-Grenal (France) preferred to hunt in open environments, and their hunting strategies did not alter during periods of climatic change, according to a study published January 18, 2023 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A surprising discovery was made in the Field Museum in Chicago, US. An ancient sword that sat inside the Field Museum for nearly 100 years that was believed to be a replica is actually a
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A new study led by Western biological anthropology professor Jay Stock, suggests that milk consumption in some regions between 7,000 and 2,000 years ago led to an increase in human body mass and stature. This
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Researchers from a variety of Spanish institutions have managed to reconstruct the diet of some 50 individuals buried more than 3,000 years ago in the Cova des Pas’ necropolis in Menorca. The study, coordinated by
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The world’s oldest known runestone is currently on exhibition, attracting international attention among runic scholars and archaeologists. The stone has inscriptions up to 2,000 years old and date back to the earliest days of the
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Using an interactive map, you can find out which Indigenous land you live on. The map covers the whole world and was deliberately developed to inform and educate people about the history and sacredness of
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – Enigmatic Ales Stenar (in English, Ale’s Stones) are located high on the ridge above the old-fashioned fishing village of Kåseberga near Ystad, Sweden. Ale stenar (stones) facing west. Image credit: Wikimalte – CC BY-SA 4.0 Myths, legends, and
AncientPages.com – One of the most hotly debated questions in the history of Neanderthal research has been whether they created art. In the past few years, the consensus has become that they did, sometimes. But, like their relations at either
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – If you take a magnifying glass and a flashlight and look at your teeth very carefully in the mirror, in places you can spot a pattern of fine, parallel lines running across your teeth. These
