Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A very unique 1,700-year-old amphora was unearthed by archaeologists conducting excavations at the Diyarbakir Fortress site, located in the historic Sur district in southeastern Turkey. The amphora was once used for delivering olive oil and
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Khirbet Tibnah in the West Bank is a site of special interest to archaeologists, historians, and Biblical scholars. This region was populated from as early as the Bronze Age until the start of the Ottoman
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Locals in the village of Gudsathoo Budgam, Kashmir accidentally found a sculpture of the god Vishnu while digging the land. The idol of Lord Vishnu depicts the three-headed god with four arms having lotus flower
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Beer has been a popular beverage for thousands of years and will undoubtedly continue to be enjoyed in the future. Ecuadoran bioengineer Javier Carvajal was lucky to find a 400-year-old yeast specimen inside an old
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Researchers from Western University have verified the authenticity of a South American tsantsa (shrunken head) as human remains, an important step in the global effort toward decolonization and preserving and understanding Indigenous history. Using clinical
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A joint Polish- Italian archaeological mission excavating at the temple of King Nyuserre in the Abu Gorab necropolis north of Abusir made an important discovery. Archaeologists believe they have probably found the remains of a milk-brick
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A long-standing Canadian mystery may have finally been solved. A combination of archaeological and geological studies shed new light on when the first humans reached the region around Fort McMurray, Alberta. There is a wealth
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – This beautiful find was recovered and identified by Israel Antiquities Authority numismatics expert Lior Sandberg during a maritime survey. Image credit: Israel Antiquities Authority This beautiful find was recovered and identified by Israel Antiquities Authority
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A comprehensive scientific study combining high-quality aerial photography, a topographic survey, laser scanning, and geophysical survey have resulted in the discovery of an unknown human settlement dating back to the Neolithic era in Al-Faw, Saudi
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Dutch fishermen onboard the shrimp cutter Wieringer 22 were astonished, to say the least, when they fished up a strange wooden statue. The wooden object was found five kilometers west of Wadden Island. Crew member Victor
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists have begun a new project to reveal the secrets of one of Britain’s most powerful Anglo-Saxon queens and the monastery which she presided over, in a new three-year dig in Cookham, Berkshire. The projected
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The University of Cambridge is supporting a claim for the return to Nigeria of 116 objects currently held in the University’s Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (MAA) collections that were taken by British armed forces during the sacking of Benin City in 1897. Commemorative
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The Bantu Expansion transformed sub-Saharan Africa’s linguistic, economic, and cultural composition. Today, more than 240 million people speak one of the more than 500 Bantu languages. It is generally accepted that the ancestors of current
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A recent study by scientists from the University of Texas at Austin finds that a site in New Mexico offers some of the most conclusive evidence for humans settling in North America much earlier than
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com -The discovery of an exceptional prehistoric site containing the remains of animals that lived in a tropical sea has been made in a farmer’s field in Gloucestershire. Discovered beneath a field grazed by an ancient breed
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Something happened around 5,000 years ago that allowed one strain of herpes to overtake all others, possibly an increase in transmissions, which could have been linked to kissing. The first ancient herpes genomes to be
