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AncientPages.com – Archaeologists at the University of York, leading a large international team, have revealed surprising new insights into why pottery production increased significantly at the end of the last Ice Age – with culture playing a bigger role than
AncientPages.com – Archaeologists excavating near Varnhem Abbey in Sweden have uncovered several unique skeletons. The bones include remains of two children, a six year old and a one year old. Varnhem is a place of great historical importance. In 995, Olof
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Indian archaeologists have discovered that hemp – a mix of hemp with clay and lime plaster – has prevented the famous ancient Ellora caves from degrading over the 1,500 years they have been in existence.
AncientPages.com – The remains of an Anglo-Saxon island – home to a Middle Saxon settlement – have been uncovered at Little Carlton near Louth, Lincolnshire by archaeologists from the University of Sheffield. One of the most important archaeological finds in decades, settlement
AncientPages.com – Israeli and German team of computer scientists and Dead Sea Scrolls scholars will create a digital copy of the 2,000-year-old Dead Sea Scrolls, informed the Israel Antiquities Authority. Dead Sea Scrolls represent one of the most important discoveries of the 20th century. The
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – The Tarkhan Dress, a V-neck linen shirt, has been confirmed as the world’s oldest woven garment, with radiocarbon testing dating the garment to the late fourth millennium B.C. Tarkhan is one of the most important
AncientPages.com – 9,000-year-old fish bones discovered in southern Sweden provides earliest evidence of fermentation for food preservation anywhere in the world. The discovery of the world’s oldest storage of fermented fish in southern Sweden provides earliest evidence of fermentation of food
AncientPages.com – A Roman-Byzantine grave has been unearthed during the restoration of the historic Casa Garibaldi building on Istanbul’s famous Istiklal Avenue, Turkey The grave was found when a worker discovered a 1,600- to 1800-year-old skull eight meters under the surface.
AncientPages.com – Artifacts of the ancient city of Kibyra can be seen in the digitally thanks to a laser technology project initiated by Mehmet Akif Ersoy University, Turkey. Researchers have used laser technology to create digital models of ancient artifacts unearthed during
AncientPages.com – An analysis of three published and two unpublished cuneiform tablets from the British Museum has revealed that Babylonian astronomers used geometry to calculate the motions of Jupiter – 1,400 years before Europeans. The discovery was made by Prof. Mathieu
AncientPages.com – For the first time, after the sustained efforts of two generations, Chinese archaeologists have discovered ruins of pottery marked with the characters for “Yueyang” in a location northeast of Xi’an, the capital of Shaanxi province. With this discovery, they
AncientPages.com – A brilliant Renaissance polymath, John Dee was an English mathematician, natural philosopher, and student of the occult. John Dee (13 July 1527 – 1608 or 1609) was also adviser to Queen Elizabeth I. He devoted much of his life to the study
AncientPages.com – The dead were not buried until they had decomposed to skeletal remains. The skeletons were then dismantled and bones of similar types were buried together, say Danish archaeologists researching a burial site in an ancient town in southern Jordan. “It
AncientPages.com – Archaeologists believe they may have found a submerged seaside palace built more than 2,200 years ago by China’s first emperor, Ying Zheng, mainland media reports. The building, thought to date back to the Qin dynasty (221-207BC), was discovered under
AncientPages.com – An international team of researchers used cutting edge genome technology to solve a mystery that has puzzled archaeologists for more than a decade. Did the skeletons belong to gladiators, soldiers or perhaps criminals? Analyzed set of Roman-age decapitated bodies, found by York
AncientPages.com – Genetic data does not support ancient trans-Atlantic migration, Kansas University professor says. This hypothesis, which was recently supported by several documentaries and publications, has contributed to the population of Native Americans, often called an “Ice Age Columbus.” “That hypothesis
