Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – More than 7,000 languages are spoken in the world. This linguistic diversity is passed on from one generation to the next, similarly to biological traits. But have language and genes evolved in parallel over the
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – On the 81st anniversary of the sinking of the Australian warship HMAS Sydney (II) and the disguised German raider HSK Kormoran following a battle off the coast of Western Australia during WWII, Curtin University has
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The world’s first urban state societies developed in Mesopotamia, modern-day Iraq, some 5,500 years ago. No other artifact type is more symbolic of this development than the so-called beveled rim bowl (BRB), the first mass
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – In the beliefs of ancient Greeks, there is a well-known myth of Hades, a shadowy place where the dead lived. The deceased entered Hades with the help of Charon, the ferryman and a psychopomp of Hades
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The results of the archaeological studies at the Acropolis of Falasarna in Crete, Greece, are complete. While excavating at the site, scientists have unraveled some exciting secrets of the ancient Temple of Dimitra and discovered
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Researchers of the University of Malaga (UMA) and the University of Jaen (UJA) have discovered Egypt’s oldest tomb oriented to the winter solstice. Located in the necropolis of Qubbet el-Hawa (Aswan), it is precisely oriented
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – An Egyptian team of archaeologists working for the Supreme Council of Antiquities has uncovered the remains of a colonnaded hall at the ancient Buto Temple, Kafr El-Sheikh, in the northern Nile Delta. Ruins of the
AncientPages.com – In evolutionary terms, the human population has rocketed in seconds. The news that it has now reached 8 billion seems inexplicable when you think about our history. For 99% of the last million years of our existence, people
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists excavating in Saqqara, Egypt, have discovered a pyramid dedicated to an unknown ancient Egyptian queen. Who was the mysterious Queen, and why is she unfamiliar to historians and Egyptologists? Could another ancient structure nearby
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Researchers from a Basque research institute, the Aranzadi Science Society, say that they found the earliest document written in Basque language, which is considered as one of Europe’s most mysterious tongues. Image credit: Aranzadi Science Society
AncientPages.com – It couldn’t have been a case of better timing. Egyptologists celebrating the centenary of the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun now have a promising new archaeological discovery that appears to have been made in Egypt. Excavators have
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Even though it is over 2,000 years since the ancient Roman road networks were established, there are clear connections between the routes of the roads and modern-day prosperity. In a study in economics, the researchers
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The wide expanse of an ancient lakebed in New Mexico holds the preserved footprints of life that roamed millennia ago. Giant sloths and mammoths left their mark, and alongside them, signs of our human ancestors.
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – An enchanted Egyptian amulet and other historical remains believed to originate in the Roman period, have been discovered by archaeologists excavating ruins of the ancient city of Amastris in the northern Türkiye’s Bartın. An ancient
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Piecing together the story of human evolution is an undeniably complex task. However, new research has brought us closer to understanding how early humans in Britain may have been related to other European populations over 400,000 years
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – Norway’s stave churches were built on remarkable technology that contributed to their uniqueness. The structures are impressive and highly unique examples of medieval architecture. This technology was remarkable and required knowledge of geometry and the
