Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeological excavation is still going on at Tilaurakot, Kapilvastu of southern Nepal. According to archaeologists involved in the excavation, the recent discovery of ruins of a wall dating to the Mauryan Empire has archaeological significance.
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Scientists have located a unique Viking Age shipyard site at Birka on Björkö in Lake Mälaren. The discovery challenges previous theories about how the maritime activities of the Viking Age were organized. A replica of
Jan Barterk – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists had low expectations when excavations started at 35 Spaska Street in Kyiv in 2007. Two earlier archaeological surveys had been carried out here, with meager results. But now a new building was to be
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Democracy is widely understood to have arisen in the Mediterranean world about 2,500 years ago before spreading through cultural contact to other parts of the globe. But new research from the University of Georgia Laboratory
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – In 1347, the plague first entered the Mediterranean via trade ships transporting goods from the territories of the Golden Horde in the Black Sea. The disease then disseminated across Europe, the Middle East, and northern
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – An artificial intelligence tool has spotted changes in flints from a 1-million-year-old ancient human site called Evron Quarry in Israel. A closer examination reveals this is a significant discovery showing ancient humans used fire almost
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Scientists have just published a study of what may prove to be China’s most ancient human fossil. Scientists at the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), as part of a team of
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – On April 23, people in Ireland celebrate Brian Boru, one of their greatest heroes, who became famous for driving the Vikings out. Brian Boru, King of Munster. An eighteenth-century illustration of Brian Bóruma mac Cennétig
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – The troll is a fascinating mythological creature, well-known in Scandinavian countries. They were ‘nature beings’ because encounters with them usually took place in nature. For centuries, however, trolls were found only in the landscape of
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Chickens are the world’s most numerous domestic animal. In order to understand when, where, and how they first became associated with human societies, we critically assessed the domestic status of chicken remains described in >600
Zteve T Evans – AncientPages.com – Nova Anglia, or New England, was alleged to have been a community of exiled Anglo-Saxon nobles and warriors who intended it to be their new homeland after being defeated by King William I, the
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A tomb of an upper-class female from the late Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 BC) has been excavated at the Taosibei cemetery site in Xiangfen county of North China’s Shanxi province. The tomb belongs to
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – One of the greatest civilizations of Greek prehistory was the Mycenaean civilization, famous for its majestic architecture and monuments with a grand and impressive appearance. Mycenae, one of Greece’s most significant archaeological sites, lies on the
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Paleontologists at the University of Southampton have identified the remains of one of Europe’s largest ever land-based hunters: a dinosaur that measured over 10m long and lived around 125 million years ago. Several prehistoric bones,
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – While investigating the Three Bridge Mill located near the village of Twyford, Buckinghamshire, UK scientists discovered an early Roman rare wooden carved figure. Initially, the researchers thought it was just a degraded piece of wood.
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The spread of the grain from East Asia to Central Europe has been reconstructed by researchers at Kiel University. People were already living in a globalized world 3,500 years ago. That is the conclusion of
