Archaeology Archive

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Birch tar is the oldest synthetic substance made by early humans, and those humans were in the long past - Neanderthals. But the

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Two ancient shipwrecks, most likely dated to the mid-Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), were discovered about 1,500 meters under the sea level in South China Sea,

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating in the Saqqara necropolis, Egypt, have unearthed two stunning embalming workshops. During a press conference, the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - People tend to think that the idea that biological sex is linked with one's role in society belongs in the past. But was

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A research team led by the University of Cambridge say it is the oldest example we have of this diarrhea-causing parasite infecting humans

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists have identified, for the first time, the composition of a Roman perfume more than 2,000 years old thanks to the discovery of

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Not so long ago, the public was invited to participate in the Carlisle Roman bath excavation. The project, run by Wardell Armstrong, Cumberland

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - When most researchers looked at a puzzling group of artifacts discovered at French archaeological sites, they presumed these to be ornaments or clothing.

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - It is not the first time Betej Gabriel, an amateur archaeologist from Gorj in Romania, has made an incredible find using his metal

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists unearthed a 500-year-old funerary bundle and pottery during work on a natural gas line near Lima’s central coastline. The bundle, wrapped in

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating in the province of Shandong, China, have unearthed 12 incredible tombs estimated to be around 700 years old.  It is one

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An enormous, rare cargo of 1,800-year-old marble artifacts, borne in a merchant ship that was shipwrecked in a storm, was uncovered in the

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Recent research has hypothesized that the earliest evidence of human lip kissing originated in a very specific geographical location in South Asia 3,500

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The oldest scale plans of human made megastructures are reported in the open access journal PLOS ONE on May 17, 2023. The engravings, dated

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - When Christopher Columbus arrived at the present-day US Virgin Islands on his second voyage across the Atlantic in 1493, the islands were already