AncientPages.com – Researchers deployed an underwater robot to take a closer look at a mass of tiles that sank into the seabed off Hatsushima island in Atami while being transported by ship during the Edo Period (1603-1867). During the two-day study
AncientPages.com – Although teaching is useful, it is not essential for cultural progress because people can use reasoning and reverse engineering of existing items to work out how to make tools, according to a new study from the University of Exeter. Human
AncientPages.com – A small piece of the skull of the 8200-year-old “Viste Boy” has been sent to a Swedish laboratory for DNA analysis. Scientists hope to learn more about early migration into Norway as well as clarify the skeleton’s actual sex. The
AncientPages.com – A rare fossil of a dog-sized horned dinosaur has been identified by a scientist at Britain’s University of Bath. The animal originated from eastern North America also known as ‘lost continent’ of Appalachia. During the Late Cretaceous period, 66-100 million years
AncientPages.com – Prehistoric rock paintings have been discovered near Kadiri of Anantapur district of Andhra Pradesh. The rock, locally known as Rukalagundu in Kadiri mandal, was found to have prehistoric paintings dated to Mesolithic times. Dr E. Siva Nagireddy, CEO of
Ancient Pages.com – A rich collection of silver jewellery from the IX-XIII century period, discovered during dig in Czermno in the Lublin province near the Ukrainian border, was presented at a closed show in the library of Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin, Poland. Today’s
AncientPages.com – 13,000 year-old engraving uncovered in Spain may depict a hunter-gatherer campsite, according to researchers Marcos García-Diez from University of the Basque Country, Spain, and Manuel Vaquero from Catalan Institute of Human Palaeoecology and Social Evolution – IPHES, Spain. It’s a
AncientPages.com – Impressive statues of ancient Mesopotamian rulers in the Louvre and the British Museum are famous. They bear witness to the wealth of Bronze Age Akkadian and Sumerian city-states more than four thousand years ago. However, they are made of
AncientPages.com – A 2000-year-old room plastered with frescoes was accidentally discovered during routine roadworks to install a gas pipeline under a busy street in central Rome, Italy. The find was made in the middle of November, when workmen started to dig a
AncientPages.com – Archaeologists accidentally discovered a traditional, ancient drum, an iconic artifact of the ancient Vietnamese people, dated to the Dong Son culture (700 B.C. – 100 AD). The Dong Son kettledrum – has been found in Timor Leste, some 3,000 km from
AncientPages.com – Eight well-preserved fossilized peach endocarps, or pits, dating back more than two and a half million years, have been found by scientists in southwest China. Despite their age, the fossils appear nearly identical to modern peach pits. It’s the first discovery
AncientPages.com – Thousands of years ago lived a woman in the Egyptian city of Asyut, on the west side of the Nile River Valley, 375 miles south of the Mediterranean city of Alexandria. Her true name is unknown, but today some
AncientPages.com – A new study suggests that medieval people were exposed to hazardous heavy metals like lead, which was frequently used to glaze pottery. The poor, who could not afford such items, avoided the high levels of exposure. Being rich in
AncientPages.com – Researchers say that humans have been eating these beans for many millennia. The world’s oldest domesticated fava beans have been discovered in sites in the central-southern Levant, now the Galilee area of northern Israel. The most ancient beans were carbon
AncientPages.com – Archaeologists say they have discovered tombs that are more than 1,000 years old in a pyramid-shaped cemetery in the midst of Peru’s capital, Lima. “There are four human burial sites for adult individuals, three women and one man, who
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – The sarcophagus of Ankh-f-n-khonsu, a high priest of the ancient Egyptian god Amun Ra, has been unearthed in the west bank of Luxor, Antiquities Minister Mamdouh al Damaty announced Thursday. The sarcophagus, which dates back
