Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Who were the Neanderthals and what caused their demise? For more than 350 000 years, Neanderthals inhabited Europe and Asia until, in a sudden change by evolutionary standards, they disappeared around 40 000 years ago.
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – An incredible find is being reported from Wisconsin, where an ancient canoe carved from a single piece of white oak has been discovered in Lake Mendota. It’s the second time scientists find an ancient canoe
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – During archaeological excavations carried out in Ga’ab El Lagia Church in Sudan, archaeologists discovered 1,000 years old paintings depicting the Virgin Mary with Christ and two archangels. Image credit: PAP – Science in Poland, Szymon
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A remarkable musical discovery was made in the silty mud on the Vindolanda excavations this year. An extremely rare copper alloy cornu mouthpiece, dated to 120-128 AD, was unearthed in May of this year. It was
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A Slovak-German team of archaeologists researching one of the largest Central European Stone Age settlements in Vráble in western Slovakia, have unearthed the remains of three dozen headless bodies of people who may have been killed in
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – An excavation team consisting of students and scientists from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AuTH) has made a stunning discovery in Philippi, a major Greek city northwest of the nearby island, Thasos. In a press
Jan Bartek – AncientPagers.com – Researchers from Tel Aviv University collected samples of charcoal used as fuel for metallurgical furnaces in the Timna Valley, located in Israel’s southern desert region, during the 11th to 9th centuries BCE and examined them
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – It would seem ancient Maya cities in Mesoamerica are as beautiful as dangerous. There is solid evidence that beneath the soil surface of the ancient Maya cities, an unexpected danger lurks there: mercury pollution. In
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – It may have been a storm or something else, but scientists now know a ship loaded with cargo from all over the Mediterranean ended its journey after sinking off the coast of Israel 1,200 years
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Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Ancient Palmyra has gripped public imagination since its picturesque ruins were “rediscovered” in the seventeenth century by western travelers. The most legendary story of ancient Palmyra is that of Queen Zenobia, who was ruling over
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Built more than a thousand years before the Aztecs arrived in central Mexico, Teotihuacan was once one of the largest cities in the world. Its stone temples, comparable in size to Egypt’s pyramids, still draw
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – The Roman city walls in Lugo, Spain, are considered the only Roman structure that experienced the powerful empire’s domination, yet it is still in perfect condition. The Lugo structure – dated to the end of
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Researchers have shed light on the story behind a large sandstone rock art site in Central Queensland that features seven star-like designs, large snake-like designs, six-toed human feet and even a penis. Engraved penis and
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Almost 300 years after the Romans left, scholars like Bede wrote about the Angles and the Saxons and their migrations to the British Isles. Scholars of many disciplines, including archaeology, history, linguists and genetics, have
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – In the field of human genetics, the story of Mother Eve is a familiar one. It describes how all living humans descend from one woman who lived in Africa 200,000 to 300,000 years ago. Evidence comes from
