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Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – While conducting a survey of a deep-sea ridge just north of the Hawaiian Islands, the E/V Nautilus expedition suddenly spotted an incredibly unique and fascinating formation that looks like an ancient underwater yellow brick road.
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The huge Neolithic necropolis in Fleury-sur-Orne, Normandy, France is the resting place for a group of selected individuals who were buried in impressively long monuments. The Neolithic necropolis in Fleury-sur-Orne, Normandy, France. Credit: François Levalet
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Since 1979, when the first cave art was documented in North America, dozens of other examples have come to light. Among these, the 19th Unnamed Cave in Alabama contains hundreds of pre-contact Native American mud
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Underwater archaeologists are exploring an ancient lost Maya city hidden inside a volcanic crater. Hundreds of years ago, in the middle of Lake Atitlán, situated in the highlands of Guatemala, about 5,000 feet above sea
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The oldest house in North America is located in Ohio. The 12,500-year-old dwelling was used by Paleoindians during the Ice Age. Discovered in the early 1990s by David Brose who was with the Cleveland Museum
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – In 1953 while clearing the ground in Borgund on the west coast of Norway strange debris was discovered. Archaeologists came to the site and started excavating. They managed to identify 45,000 objects from the Middle
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The discovery of pottery from the ancient Lapita culture by researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) has shed new light on how Papua New Guinea (PNG) served as a launching pad for the colonization
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists, anthropologists, and historians have long tried to unravel a pre-Columbian mystery: who actually discovered the Caribbean? Clues to solving this ancient riddle may be found in a rare, pre-Columbian Archaic settlement discovered by scientists in
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A new Viking Age ship has been discovered by archaeologists in Norway during a ground-penetrating radar (GPR) survey. This exciting find reveals a huge Viking boat buried beneath the ground in Øye, in Kvinesdal. The
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Scientists have discovered evidence that a major earthquake struck Chile’s coast about 3,800 years ago, triggering a tsunami that caused devastation along 1,000 kilometers of coastline. Based on geological and archaeological findings, researchers confirmed an
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The ancient giant stone spheres in Costa Rica in the Diquís Delta, in southern Costa Rica, are considered unique examples of the complex social, economic, and political systems of the period AD 500–1500. Varying in
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Covering an area of 500,000 square miles, the Gobi Desert stretches across huge portions of both Mongolia and China. The Gobi (from Mongolian gobi, meaning “waterless place”) is the world’s sixth-largest desert but this region consists
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – Tikal was the Maya’s religious, ceremonial, and military city-state, with a long and fascinating history recorded in the city’s ruins, artifacts, and plenty of stelae. Tikal’s name is probably derived from the Yucatec Maya term
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Remains of a Roman malting oven and charred spelt grains discovered during excavations in Bedfordshire could be the earliest physical evidence for beer-making in the UK, dating back more than 2,000 years to the Iron
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The main task of this sophisticated robot dog will be to inspect archaeological areas and structures ensuring the ancient site of Pompeii is safe. Built by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology spinoff engineering and robotics
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A new comprehensive study of ancient human remains taken from a cemetery at a site called the Links of Noltland has revealed surprises about Britain’s Bronze Age and explains why Bronze Age artifacts are rare
