Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The remains of two medieval merchant vessels, known as cogs, were discovered over the summer in Varberg in Sweden, during an archaeological excavation. They have now been securely dated for the first time, and analyses

Conny Waters –  AncientPages.com – The Louisiana State University (LSU) Campus Mounds sit on high ground overlooking the Mississippi River floodplain and have been a gathering place and destination for people for thousands of years. They are some of the

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Ever since Heinrich Schliemann discovered Priam’s Treasure in Troy in 1873, the origin of the gold has been a mystery, but a new study sheds light on this old riddle. The gold in objects from Troy,

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A well-preserved 3,000-year-old scarab seal was accidentally discovered during a school trip in Israel. The ancient Egyptian stone amulet depicts the bestowal of legitimacy to a ruler. The ancient amulet and impression seal was discovered during

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com -Ancient owl-shaped slate engraved plaques, dating from about 5,000 years ago in the Iberian Peninsula, may have been created by children as toys. About 4,000 engraved slate plaques resembling owls—with two engraved circles for eyes and a

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists report they have made an exceptional discovery in Peru. An ancient fresco that has been lost for over a century has been rediscovered. Scientists have previously seen the fresco depicting mythological scenes in old black-and-white

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – New evidence, helping to form a 15th-century reconstruction of part of Westminster Abbey, demonstrates how a section of the building was once the focus for the royal family’s devotion to the cult of a disemboweled

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – More than 2,000 years before the Titanic sunk in the North Atlantic Ocean, another famous ship wrecked in the Mediterranean Sea off the eastern shores of Uluburun—in present-day Turkey— carrying tons of rare metal. Since

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Flint tools discovered over 50 years ago in Cave Tunel Wielki (Małopolska) are half a million years old and among the oldest man-made objects in today’s Poland. Flint artefacts from Cave Tunel Wielki, made half

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Based on ancient written sources it is known that Adrian von Bubenberg came on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1466. More than five centuries later, in a research project documenting pilgrims’ inscriptions, Michael

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The sustainable development of agriculture has laid a solid foundation for the birth of human civilization and countries. Early agriculture has long been a focus of archaeology. China is the only country in the world

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A humerus analyzed by the UPV/EHU’s Human Evolutionary Biology group belonged to a specimen that lived in the Paleolithic period, 17,000 years ago. Selection of different dog breeds from Johnson’s household book of nature. Credit:

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists report they have made more amazing finds at the Roman villa site in Rutland, UK. Dating back to the third or fourth century A.D., the villa complex was first discovered on farmland in 2020.

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Excavating ancient DNA from teeth, an international group of scientists peered into the lives of a once thriving medieval Ashkenazi Jewish community in Erfurt, Germany. The findings in the Journal Cell show that the Erfurt

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Mating patterns could actually help explain many supposedly biological relationships between traits, researchers say Many estimates of how strongly traits and diseases share genetic signals may be inflated, according to a new UCLA-led study