Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The remains of a huge carp fish (2 meters/6.5 feet long), analyzed by scientists, mark the earliest signs of cooking by prehistoric humans to 780,000 years ago, predating the available data by some 600,000 years.
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – An intriguing gold coin has been found on Newfoundland’s south coast. The object is of great interest because it may be the oldest coin ever found in Canada. Scientists are puzzled because it is unknown
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – As a human future among the stars becomes ever closer, one University of Oregon professor looks to the distant past for clues about how we can get there. Credit: Springer International Publishing Ever since the
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Trent workmen have uncovered a 2,000-year-old Roman road in a field near Evesham, in Worcestershire, UK. Aidan Smyth, archaeology advisor for Wychavon District Council says the ancient Roman road is the only one of its
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Beautiful, sacred, 4,000-year-old petroglyphs etched into a rock in Nevada have been defaced by two men who have now been sentenced for their actions. White River Narrows is known for its prehistoric petroglyphs dating over
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The evolution of tree roots may have triggered a series of mass extinctions that rocked the Earth’s oceans during the Devonian Period over 300 million years ago, according to a study led by scientists at
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A unique forest submerged under water 6,000 – 8,000 years ago has re-emerged along the Welsh coast. Dozens of tree stumps, trunks, and root systems become visible at low tide at Trearddur Bay. “Beaches along
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – More than two dozen amazingly well-preserved bronze statues have been discovered in thermal baths of San Casciano dei Bagni, in Tuscany, Italy. The discovery was made during the exploration of the muddy remains of an
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Researcher and GRS Radioisotopes technician Jorge Rivera, from the University of Seville, has participated in an incredible discovery that is unique in Europe. After applying an optically-stimulated luminescence technique at the Center for Research, Technology
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A previously unknown Etruscan temple has been discovered in the ancient city of Vulci, which lies in the Italian region of Latium. The building, which is 45 meters by 35 meters, is situated west of
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Already about 4,000 years ago, a practice of purposeful water management, or irrigation, was adopted in northern China Ancient Chinese made an effort to grow new grains that had been introduced from southwest Asia. Guide
AncientPages.com – When the ancestors of Māori made landfall in Aotearoa some 750 years ago, it marked the final stop of the greatest expansion of human migration in prehistory. Much of their story—exactly when they arrived and where they initially
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – It was just another quiet day in the Motza neighborhood near Jerusalem, when a squad of police cars pulled over at an ancient dig site. In fact, it looked like a 1500-year-old crime scene! Image
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The belief in vampires is widespread and goes far back in time. Stories of vampires are today mostly encountered in books and movies, but ancient people were convinced these scary blood-sucking creatures did exist and
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The alphabet was invented around 1800 BCE and was used by the Canaanites and later by most other languages in the world. Until recently, no meaningful Canaanite inscriptions had been discovered in the Land of
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Humans have the highest prenatal growth rate of all extant primates, but how this exceptional rate came about has been a mystery up to now. Leslea Hlusko, a scientist at the Centro Nacional de Investigación
