Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Using new scientific tools, University of Cincinnati archaeologists discovered that an ancient Greek leader known today as the Griffin Warrior likely grew up around the seaside city he would one day rule. The findings are

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – In a trio of papers, published simultaneously in the journal Science, Ron Pinhasi from the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology and Human Evolution and Archaeological Sciences (HEAS) at the University of Vienna and Songül Alpaslan-Roodenberg from the

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com  – As the ice melts, glacial archaeologists have made many fascinating discoveries recently. Scientists from the Secrets Of The Ice, a glacier archaeology program in Norway, have announced the discovery of a pre-Viking arrow that has

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – If three ancient bodies buried in Indonesia could talk, researchers from the Australian National University (ANU) say they would tell stories of the earliest humans in island Southeast Asia. The discovery of the three bodies

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The oldest human settlement in Iran discovered so far is announced by the team co-led by Iranian archaeologist Hamed Vahdati and French paleoanthropologist Gilles Berillon. The site Qal-e Kord Caves is located in Avaj county of

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – While excavating the synagogue in the ancient Jewish village of Huqoq, on the northwest shore of the Sea of Galilee, archaeologists discovered a beautiful mosaic floor, which dates from the late fourth—early fifth century C.E.,

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Leiden archaeologist Wei Chu and colleagues report on recent excavations in Western Romania at the site of Românesti, one of the most important sites in southeastern Europe associated with the earliest Homo sapiens. The site

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A modern scientific analysis of ancient stone tools is challenging long-held beliefs about what caused radical change on the island of Crete, where the first European state flourished during the Bronze Age: the Minoan civilization.

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Research has established that there are traces of Neandertal DNA in the genome of modern humans. Now an exploratory study that assessed the facial structure of prehistoric skulls is offering new insights and supports the

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – By analyzing DNA with the help of artificial intelligence (AI), an international research team led by Lund University in Sweden has developed a method that can accurately date up to ten-thousand year-old human remains. Accurately

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – New research reveals more information about the LSU Campus Mounds, including the discovery of thousands of years old charred mammal bone fragments and a coordinated alignment of both mounds toward one of the brightest stars

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The remains of a famous Sami woman have been identified amongst Karolinska Institutet’s anatomical collections. Representatives from the medical history and heritage department visited Malå on Friday, August 19, to present the findings and initiate

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com –  This summer’s hot weather has been extremely troublesome in many European countries. Spain suffered the worst drought in decades. An unexpected side-effect of the warm weather has been discovering unknown archaeological sites. One of them

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – According to a long-lasting theory, South America was populated by ancient humans who arrived in North America from Siberia approximately 14,000 to 17,000 years ago, using what was then a land bridge to Alaska. However,