Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists have discovered an approximately 2,000-year-old Mayan pot in a cave in Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, Mexico. The National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) announced that the 13-centimeter-high “chocolatier style” pot had been
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – An archaeological study has determined that cowrie-shell artifacts found throughout the Mariana Islands were lures used for hunting octopuses and that the devices, similar versions of which have been found on islands across the Pacific,
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPage.com – Four billion years ago, the Earth looked very different than it does today, devoid of life and covered by a vast ocean. Over the course of millions of years, in that primordial soup, life
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – During pre-quarrying investigations at Lochinver Quarry to the southwest of the town Elgin, on the south coast of the Moray Firth roughly midway between Inverness and Aberdeen in Scotland, scientists uncovered an Iron Age settlement.
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – While conducting a routine measurement in the Trave river, the Kiel-Holtenau Waterways and Shipping Authority (Wasserstraßen- und Schifffahrtsamt/WSA) discovered a ship at a depth of eleven meters. Researchers from Kiel University spent eight months examining
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The discovery of a 1,000-year-old sword belonging to a knight has been described as extraordinary by archaeologists. Dating back to the reign of Poland’s first King, Bolesław the Brave the sword was unearthed in a
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – Once upon a time, there was an important commercial center on Gotland, the island located in the Baltic Sea, approximately 90 kilometers east of mainland Sweden. Gotland’s central position within an extensive trading network stretched
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – An abandoned Caribbean colony unearthed centuries after it had been forgotten and a case of mistaken identity in the archaeological record has conspired to rewrite the history of a barrier island off the Virginia and
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Prehistoric people in Europe were consuming milk thousands of years before humans evolved the genetic trait allowing us to digest the milk sugar lactose as adults, finds a new study. The research, published in Nature, mapped
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com –The Loch Ness Monster is “plausible,” a British university has declared, after finding that some plesiosaurs may have lived in freshwater. “Nessie proponents have long believed that the creature of Scottish folklore could be a
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A rare, perfectly preserved bronze coin depicting the goddess of the Moon, minted 1,850 years ago under Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius in Alexandria, who ruled between the years 138–161 A.D, has been discovered during an
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Human footprints believed to date from the end of the last Ice Age have been discovered on the salt flats of the Air Force’s Utah Testing and Training Range (UTTR) by Cornell researcher Thomas Urban
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Researchers link an eruption in the Aleutian Islands to Nile flood failures during Cleopatra’s reign. Cleopatra wouldn’t have seen the clouds of ash darken the sky from her throne in Alexandria, but the effects of
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Although this 1700 years old luxury villa was excavated and examined both in 1856 and in the 1990s, it still has secrets to reveal. New secrets have now been revealed by an international research team,
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The site of Tell Deir ‘Alla (“mound of the high monastery”), in the central Jordan Valley, was a settlement during the 13th century BC and functioned as a town, according to Professor Emeritus Zeidan Kafafi,
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Scientists have previously confirmed modern humans and Neanderthals are closely related. In a past study, researchers discovered just 7% of our DNA is unique to modern humans! According to the study published by Science Advances, humans
