Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A set of exceptional 1,700-year-old Roman mosaics have returned home to Israel, where the collection went on public display for the first time Monday after more than a decade of touring the world’s top museums.
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The genomes of many human populations show evidence of founder events, which occur when a small number of initial members start a new population, and can lead to low genetic diversity as well as increase
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Large jars (in Greek, called ‘pithoi’) were vast storage containers, widely used among the civilizations that inhabited the regions of the Mediterranean Sea in the Neolithic, the Bronze Age, and the succeeding Iron Age. A view
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – While workers labored on a large construction site in the Gaza Strip, a security guard noticed a strange piece of stone sticking out of the earth. “I thought it was a tunnel,” said Ahmad, the
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists have recovered as many as 2,550 wooden objects from the Templo Mayor in the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan in Mexico City. The rescued objects have survived more than 500 years submerged in water, some
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – While carrying out fieldwork in the Burren lowlands east of Gort in Co Galway, Ireland archaeologist Michael Gibbons discovered a remarkable Bronze Age Fortress. Gibbons says the ancient fortress he stumbles upon in the rural
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Some years ago, one of the most extraordinary swords was discovered in a Viking burial ground in Langeid, Bygland, Setesdal, in southern Norway. All ancient swords are unique in their own ways, but this one
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – A new study led by University of Arizona researchers may have solved two mysteries that have long puzzled paleo-climate experts: Where did the ice sheets that rang in the last ice age more than
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Where exactly did our civilization emerge? Some will say our modern civilization emerged in Mesopotamia. Others will say there are underwater ruins much older and predate the Sumerian civilizations. Yet, another group will argue the
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists excavating in Kent, UK have made some interesting finds, and the oldest of them date back to the Bronze Age. The discovery was made at Hillborough on the outskirts of Herne Bay, where according
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – Described in numerous literary works, movies, public monuments, and other memorials, Decebalus is considered a national hero in Romania. At the beginning of the third century, 150 years after the affirmation of Decebalus, Dio Cassius
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – While exploring the historic Roman-era shipwreck off the islet of Antikythera marine archeologists discovered several ancient artifacts recovered from the seafloor. The most eye-striking underwater discovery was a massive head. The greater-than-life-size marble head of
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – With some 7,000 islands and cays and a 7,000-year history of human habitation, the Caribbean Sea is practically synonymous with maritime travel. The very word “canoe” is derived from the term “kana:wa,” used by the
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeological excavations on Ayasuluk Hill in Turkey have led to the discovery of an interesting 3,200-year-old Mycenaean statuette that shed new light on the Hittites, one of the most powerful ancient civilizations that occupied the
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeological discoveries made on the outskirts of Canterbury, Kent (England) confirm the presence of early humans in southern Britain between 560,000 and 620,000 years ago, making it one of the earliest known Paleolithic sites in
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Magnificent ancient Egyptian tombs covered with mysterious hieroglyphs telling incredible stories of the Pharaohs and the rise and fall of great dynasties captivate archaeologists, historians, and the public alike. It is only relatively recently that
