Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Something very strange and unexplained happened with European DNA about 5,000 years ago. For reasons totally unknown, the genetic markers of this first pan-European culture were suddenly replaced, and scientists do not know why.  

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Location, location, location—it’s the first rule of real estate. For a long time, it’s been widely assumed that being close to resources drives settlement patterns, with cities generally founded near water and fertile land for

Jan Bartek- AncientPages.com – Examining the spines of Neanderthals, an extinct human relative, may explain back-related ailments experienced by humans today, a team of anthropologists has concluded in a new comparative study. The analysis centers on the spine’s curvature, which

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Knowledge about the Picts is still limited and every discovery related to these people shed new light on the ancient history of Scotland. The Picts were brave and determined people who repelled the conquests of

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists have discovered a unique 9,00-year-old shrine in the Jordan Desert. According to scientists the shrine “sheds an entirely new light on the symbolism, artistic expression as well as spiritual culture of these hitherto unknown

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Unguja Ukuu is a small settlement on Unguja island (Zanzibar Island), in Zanzibar, Tanzania. It is an archaeological site that has yielded abundant artifacts and evidence of the long history of Unguja Ukuu. Artifacts unearthed at Unguja Ukuu came

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Cut into several boulders located within the Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation, in western Nevada, the petroglyphs date to at least 10,500 years ago and perhaps even as far back as 14,800 years ago. They are –

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A well-preserved Palaeolithic site in northern China reveals a new and previously unidentified set of cultural innovations. When did populations of Homo sapiens first arrive in China and what happened when they encountered the Denisovans

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Remains of a large administrative facility from the First Intermediate Period were uncovered during an excavation carried out by an Austrian-Egyptian mission led by Eriny Foster this week at the Upper Egyptian town of Kom

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Mummification of the dead probably was more common in prehistory than previously known. This discovery was made at the hunter-gatherer burial sites in the Sado Valley in Portugal, dating to 8,000 years ago. View from

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Nowhere else are so many Neolithic pile dwellings known as around the Alps. However, how this particular construction boom got its start is a mystery. Researchers at the University of Basel have now uncovered new

Jan  Bartek – AncientPages.com – Scientists are attempting to find out why so many 4,000-year-old Native American shell ring villages were suddenly abandoned. While scholars have proposed socio-ecological explanations, there has been limited examination of the physical evidence for these.

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists led by the UAB complete the first topography of the interior of the only existing Roman emerald mines, located in Egypt. Their work concentrated on the area that in Antiquitywas known as “Mons Smaragdus”, and

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The riddle to solve the purpose of Stonehenge continues. It had long been thought that the famous site of Stonehenge served as an ancient calendar, given its alignment with the solstices. Now, research has identified

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – For the first time ever archaeologists have discovered water wells dating back to the Pharaonic times. The discovery was made by scientists who are part of the Egyptian Archaeological Mission working in the Tel-Kadwa region