Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – People living in the southern areas of today’s Poland over 4,000 years ago were genetically similar to earlier communities from this area. Researchers from the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań have now analyzed the DNA
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Many have claimed the Justinianic Plague (c. 541-750 CE) killed half of the population of the Roman Empire. Now, historical research and mathematical modeling challenge the death rate and severity of this first plague pandemic.
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Ancient people continued their centuries-long tradition of socializing and feasts, even after an unknown crisis around A.D. 650. More than a thousand years ago, people from across the Southeast regularly traveled to a small island
AncientPages.com – Columbus famously reached the Americas in 1492. Other Europeans had made the journey before, but the century from then until 1609 marks the creation of the modern globalized world. This period brought extraordinary riches to Europe, and genocide and disease
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Five centuries after Charles I of Spain authorized the transport of the first African slaves to the Viceroyalty of New Spain, the ancestry of the hundreds of thousands of abducted and enslaved people forms an
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Remains of an Avar warrior and a belt set that can be dated to the turn of the 7th to the 8th century, have been accidentally unearthed at the city cemetery in Vinkovci, a city
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Istrian archaeologists have excavated an ancient wooden boat dating back two thousand years from under the Poreč waterfront, located on the western coast of the Istrian peninsula, in Istria County, Croatia. The ancient wooden boat was
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Kayseri province is a very special region of Turkey. It has several ancient spots where archaeologists discovered underground cities. The city of Kayseri (ancient Caesarea city), located in the Nevsehir-Urgup-Goreme triangle of Anatolia is known
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Finding an unknown cave is an exciting discovery, but the finding is even more thrilling if you see there are several, beautiful, unique ancient drawings inside the cave. The newly discovered cave in the area
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com -The ancient cemetery of Mözs-Icsei dűlő in present-day Hungary holds clues to a unique community formation during the beginnings of Europe’s Migration Period, according to a study. Artificially deformed skull of an adult woman. Permanent binding
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists have discovered hidden geometric patterns in the layout of Göbeklitepe, an archaeological site in Turkey’s southeastern Şanlıurfa province that is home to the world’s oldest temple. The site of Göbeklitepe (in Turkish: ‘the Hill
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – An accidental discovery of an ancient tomb chamber has recently been made in a graveyard near Sari, northern Iran, as an excavator was digging down quite deep to entomb a coronavirus victim. The ancient grave
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Ancient petroglyphs in Iran represent a large part of the rock art (pictographs, or painting on rock; and rock reliefs) of this ancient country. Many archaeological expeditions revealed more than 50,000 dates to different time
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Is it possible to be killed by a meteorite? Yes, of course, it is but until now it has been difficult to find convincing evidence of such an event in historical records. While examining several
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – What makes our species unique compared to other hominins? Exploring how Homo sapiens colonized most of the world’s continents in a relatively short period could reveal the exceptional capacities of humans relative to other hominins,
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A team of researchers led by Newcastle University analyzed the uses of Bronze Age swords, shields, and spears that were used in Bronze Age warfare across Europe from 1600 BC to 600 BC. The remains
