Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Nestled in the picturesque Northumberland countryside, Vindolanda with its fort and settlement is a treasure trove of everyday life during the Roman occupation of Britain and beyond. The fort of Vindolanda, one of the earliest
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Scientists are curious and want to open an 830-million-year-old rock crystal that contains ancient microorganisms that may still be alive. To some, this sounds like the opening of Pandora’s box and there is no lack
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists excavating in the city of Berenice Troglodytica, an ancient seaport of Egypt on the western shore of the Red Sea, have found a 1,500-year monumental tomb that contains unusually arranged skeletons. The grave is
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Hadrian’s Wall, also known as Picts’ Wall, Vallum Hadriani (in Latin), or simply the Roman Wall, is one of the most impressive Roman remains in Britain and the ancient site is investigated by archaeologists who
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The first successfully sequenced human genome from an individual who died in Pompeii, Italy, after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE is presented this week in a study published in Scientific Reports. Prior to
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – More than 20 years ago, Dr. Heiko Prümers from the German Archaeological Institute and Prof. Dr. Carla Jaimes Betancourt from the University of Bonn, at that time a student in La Paz, began archaeological excavations
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Proteins extracted from fragments of prehistoric eggshell found in the Australian sands confirm that the continent’s earliest humans consumed the eggs of a two-meter tall bird that disappeared into extinction over 47,000 years ago. Burn
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Oral hygiene was important to the Maya who had remarkable dental skills. Scientists have discovered that the ancient Maya came with a special technique that may have prevented tooth decay. In the beliefs of the
AncientPages.com – Domestic violence was endemic in the Roman world. Rome was a slave-owning, patriarchal, militarized culture in which violence (potential and actual) signaled power and control. Tragically, but predictably, the names of most of the victims of domestic violence do not
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Uncovering the past of historically under-represented communities sometimes means having to do a little digging, through newspapers, archives and even the ground. A new affordable housing construction project in downtown Eugene tapped archaeologists from the
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – With the help of the world’s most powerful supercomputer and new artificial intelligence techniques, an international team of researchers has theorized how the extreme conditions in stars produce carbon-12, which they describe as “a
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Researchers have discovered that humans domesticated cattle around 10,000 years ago in the Central Nile region in today’s Sudan. The recent study conducted by researchers at the Polish Academy of Sciences who recently returned from excavations
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – During an archaeological survey of Castilly Henge, near Bodmin scientists uncovered a previously unknown stone circle inside a Cornwall scheduled monument. The remarkable and interesting structure is 225ft long by 205ft wide (68m by 62m). It
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Using new analyses, scientists have just found the last two of the five informational units of DNA and RNA that had yet to be discovered in samples from meteorites. While it is unlikely that DNA
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A new analysis of ancient faeces found at the site of a prehistoric village near Stonehenge has uncovered evidence of the eggs of parasitic worms, suggesting the inhabitants feasted on the internal organs of cattle
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A study carried out in the area around the Pego-Oliva Marshland Natural Park, between Valencia and Alicante, reveals how the rise in sea level impacted the human groups that inhabited this area of the Mediterranean
