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Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Famous for the natural beauty and stunning wildlife, the beautiful Isle of Mull in Scotland is the second-largest island of the Inner Hebrides after Skye. Archaeologists now have a possibility to investigate two curious elongated
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – An international team of archaeologists study 3,000 years old settlement in Cyprus, one of the most important Bronze Age settlements in the region. The site studied by Polish archaeologists, view from a drone. Photo from
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – One of Britain’s most impressive ancient Roman ruins is Hadrian’s Wall. Also known as the Picts’ Wall, the massive structure prevented raiders from the north from destroying the strategic Roman base at Corbridge in Northumberland.
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – We stand in the open fields of Spanish Lookout, a modernized Mennonite farming community in Central Belize, looking at what remains of ancestral Maya homes. White mounds, the remnants of these houses, pock the landscape
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – How frequent was violence in prehistoric human societies? One way to measure this is to look for trauma in prehistoric human remains. For example, a recent review of pre-Columbian remains found evidence of trauma from
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – An extraordinary discovery was made in the city of Jerusalem. A team of archaeologists unearthed an assemblage of ivory plaques from the First Temple period, among the few found anywhere in the world, and the
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists have uncovered a skeleton of a person who lived 31,000 years ago. According to a new study, the individual is missing its left foot, and part of its left leg reveals the oldest known
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A unique document was returned to Israel. The document opens with the words: “To Ishmael send….” Whilst the text does not refer to Hagar’s son, it is a fragment of a letter containing instructions to
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A team of scientists led by the University of Bristol, has uncovered intriguing new insights into the diet of people living in Neolithic Britain and found evidence that cereals, including wheat, were cooked in pots.
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The Cincinnati Art Museum turned to a scientist at the University of Cincinnati for help solving a mystery 1,300 years in the making. The museum’s Chinese dancing horse sculpture is so realistic that the fiery steed
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Many people living today have a small component of Neanderthal DNA in their genes, suggesting an important role for admixture with archaic human lineages in the evolution of our species. Paleogenetic evidence indicates that hybridization
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Recent discoveries in Bergama (Pergamon), the ancient city in West Anatolia are fascinating. Excavations in the ancient city of Pergamon (Pergamum of Mysia in West Anatolia about 100 km north of Turkey’s Izmir have already
AncientPages.com – Neanderthals have served as a reflection of our own humanity since they were first discovered in 1856. What we think we know about them has been shaped and moulded to fit our cultural trends, social norms and scientific standards.
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Using fossilized eggs in up to 2,500-year-old feces from Viking settlements in Denmark and other countries, researchers at the University of Copenhagen’s Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences and the Wellcome Sanger Institute (UK) have
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Neanderthals are the closest relatives to modern humans. Comparisons with them can therefore provide fascinating insights into what makes present-day humans unique, for example regarding the development of the brain. The neocortex, the largest part
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The recent rescue excavation of a 2nd century BCE burial site in the southern Tuscany region of Italy is providing a previously unseen glimpse of the Etruscan identity that survived the Roman conquest of Etruria,
