Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A perfectly preserved wooden sculpture was recently discovered at the Chan Chan archaeological complex in northern Peru. Wooden sculpture depicting a litter bearer of a ruler unearthed at Chan Chan, Peru. Image credit: Directorate of Culture
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Gregor Mendel, the Moravian monk, was indeed “decades ahead of his time and truly deserves the title of ‘founder of genetics.’” So concludes an international team of scientists as the 200th birthday of Mendel approaches
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Scientists have found evidence the first humans to inhabit the Arctic appeared about 40,000 years ago, at the beginning of the Late Paleolithic. The discovery was made by scientists from the Siberian Section of the Russian
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeology students from Bournemouth University have found the remains of prehistoric people and animal sacrifices in a recently discovered Iron Age settlement in Dorset. The site, which consists of typical Iron Age round houses and storage
Zteve T Evans – AncientPages.com – The Chiloé Archipelago, off the coast of Chile, is inhabited by a mixture of Chono, Huilliche, and Cunco people, who brought their unique beliefs and mythologies to the islands. These merged to form a
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Located not far from the international airport, the Al Wathba region is home to a beautiful oasis-like wetland reserve that is enjoyed by flamingos. The Al Wathba oasis in Saudi Arabia hosts 50 species of
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Paleontologists may have unearthed the oldest European human fossil to date. Found at the world-famous Atapuerca prehistoric archaeological site in northern Spain, scientists have described the remarkable discovery as the “face of the first European.” Sierra
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Georgia State University anthropologist Dr. Jeffrey Glover grew up in metro Atlanta, but speaking to him, it sounds like his heart is in Quintana Roo. This part of Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula has been the home
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists have discovered the ruins of what they believe was one of the greatest fire temples in Iran during the Sassanid age, named after the House of Sasan. The time of the Sassanids lasted for over
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The Georgia Guidestones have been vandalized on previous occasions. The recent destruction of the monument dubbed “America’s Stonehenge” near Elberton took place on Wednesday this week. The Elbert County Emergency Management Agency has informed the
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologically excavated stone tools—some as much as 2.6 million years old—have been hailed as evidence for an early cultural heritage in human evolution. But are these tools proof that our ancestors were already becoming human,
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – New archaeological techniques have uncovered the origins of 13 early South Australian colonists buried in unmarked graves in the Anglican Parish of St Mary’s Church in Adelaide. Published today in Australian Archaeology, the new research involved
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A team of specialists and students led by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill professor Jodi Magness recently returned to Israel’s Lower Galilee to continue unearthing nearly 1,600-year-old mosaics in an ancient Jewish
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – In the Stone Age, pendants with potent symbolism were made from animal teeth and bones, adorning clothes or accessories and serving as rattles. Human bones were also used as a raw material for pendants, as
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists from The University of Manchester have started a dig at a 5,000-year-old tomb linked to King Arthur, hoping to answer some of the mysteries surrounding the enigmatic site in the process. The experts are
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – An almost intact skeleton of a young warrior has been unearthed during archaeological excavations in the vicinity of Pasohlávky in the Brno-Country District in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. Germanic Langobard burial
