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Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A long-standing Canadian mystery may have finally been solved. A combination of archaeological and geological studies shed new light on when the first humans reached the region around Fort McMurray, Alberta. There is a wealth
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – This beautiful find was recovered and identified by Israel Antiquities Authority numismatics expert Lior Sandberg during a maritime survey. Image credit: Israel Antiquities Authority This beautiful find was recovered and identified by Israel Antiquities Authority
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A comprehensive scientific study combining high-quality aerial photography, a topographic survey, laser scanning, and geophysical survey have resulted in the discovery of an unknown human settlement dating back to the Neolithic era in Al-Faw, Saudi
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Dutch fishermen onboard the shrimp cutter Wieringer 22 were astonished, to say the least, when they fished up a strange wooden statue. The wooden object was found five kilometers west of Wadden Island. Crew member Victor
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists have begun a new project to reveal the secrets of one of Britain’s most powerful Anglo-Saxon queens and the monastery which she presided over, in a new three-year dig in Cookham, Berkshire. The projected
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The University of Cambridge is supporting a claim for the return to Nigeria of 116 objects currently held in the University’s Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (MAA) collections that were taken by British armed forces during the sacking of Benin City in 1897. Commemorative
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The Bantu Expansion transformed sub-Saharan Africa’s linguistic, economic, and cultural composition. Today, more than 240 million people speak one of the more than 500 Bantu languages. It is generally accepted that the ancestors of current
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A recent study by scientists from the University of Texas at Austin finds that a site in New Mexico offers some of the most conclusive evidence for humans settling in North America much earlier than
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Something happened around 5,000 years ago that allowed one strain of herpes to overtake all others, possibly an increase in transmissions, which could have been linked to kissing. The first ancient herpes genomes to be
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists have discovered an approximately 2,000-year-old Mayan pot in a cave in Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, Mexico. The National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) announced that the 13-centimeter-high “chocolatier style” pot had been
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – An archaeological study has determined that cowrie-shell artifacts found throughout the Mariana Islands were lures used for hunting octopuses and that the devices, similar versions of which have been found on islands across the Pacific,
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – During pre-quarrying investigations at Lochinver Quarry to the southwest of the town Elgin, on the south coast of the Moray Firth roughly midway between Inverness and Aberdeen in Scotland, scientists uncovered an Iron Age settlement.
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – While conducting a routine measurement in the Trave river, the Kiel-Holtenau Waterways and Shipping Authority (Wasserstraßen- und Schifffahrtsamt/WSA) discovered a ship at a depth of eleven meters. Researchers from Kiel University spent eight months examining
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The discovery of a 1,000-year-old sword belonging to a knight has been described as extraordinary by archaeologists. Dating back to the reign of Poland’s first King, Bolesław the Brave the sword was unearthed in a
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – An abandoned Caribbean colony unearthed centuries after it had been forgotten and a case of mistaken identity in the archaeological record has conspired to rewrite the history of a barrier island off the Virginia and
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Prehistoric people in Europe were consuming milk thousands of years before humans evolved the genetic trait allowing us to digest the milk sugar lactose as adults, finds a new study. The research, published in Nature, mapped
