Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists have discovered a 2.37-meter sword and an unusual Bronze Age mirror in Japan. The find was made in the prehistoric Tomio Maruyama burial mound in the ancient capital of Nara. An X-ray photo of

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A fragment of a wooden axle from a cart or possibly a chariot has recently been identified for us by dendrochronologist Michael Bamforth – Research Associate at the University of York, and Honorary Research Fellow

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Over the past few years, citizen scientists from the Heritage Quest project have scoured the entire Veluwe and Utrechtse Heuvelrug areas for unknown archaeological heritage. One of the results of this research is that the

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Scientists excavating at the Melka Kunture archaeological site in Ethiopia have discovered that early human species were resourceful and more intelligent than previously thought. About 1.2 million years ago, an unknown human species in Ethiopia

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A team of archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority uncovered elements of the city’s fortifications and an intriguing carved hand imprint as they dug along Sultan Suleiman Street, between the Damascus Gate and the Lions’

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists have previously discovered that the ancient Mesopotamian city of Lagash, which flourished nearly 5,000 years ago between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, was made of marsh islands. “Anthropological archaeologist Emily Hammer of the University

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – An international team led by archaeologists at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) has discovered the earliest human remains ever found in northern Britain. Human bone and a periwinkle shell bead unearthed at Heaning Wood

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Scientists excavating in Egypt have made a major archaeological discovery. In the heart of the southern city of Luxor, the Egyptian archaeological team uncovered a 1,800-year-old city. According to a press announcement by Egypt’s Supreme

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The transition to agriculture from hunting and gathering in pre-colonial North America led to changes in age-independent mortality, or mortality caused by factors that are not associated with age, according to a new study by

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The ancient Egyptians believed that when we died, our spiritual body sought out an afterlife similar to this world. But entry into this afterlife wasn’t guaranteed; it first required a perilous journey through the underworld,

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – When ancient Romans built something, it was meant to last. Countless examples clearly show why historians and archaeologists often refer to ancient Romans as famous builders who left behind many bridges, aqueducts, canals, stone-paved roads,

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Violence and warfare were widespread in many Neolithic communities across Northwest Europe, a period associated with the adoption of farming, new research suggests. Of the skeletal remains of more than 2,300 early farmers from 180

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com –  A while back, archaeologists discovered a well-preserved 1,000-year-old wooden ladder in the UK. The excavations at a site known as Field 44 near the village of Tempsford in Central Bedfordshire have continued, and scientists have

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – UniSC’s Professor Patrick Nunn and Roselyn Kumar didn’t set out to rewrite history. They were simply trying to research how India’s coastline had changed over the centuries. “There were these accounts from ancient voyages describing

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A team of archaeologists from the Universities of Chester and Manchester has made discoveries which shed new light on the communities who inhabited Britain after the end of the last Ice Age. Image credit: University