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Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – An interesting archaeological discovery has been made in Finland. In Salo Perttel, near the Medieval stone church, scientists have discovered a previously unknown burial site from the time of the Crusades. The cemetery came to
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – With its low amounts of rain and soaring high temperatures, the Sahara Desert is often regarded as one of Earth’s most extreme and least habitable environments. Cross-section showing how a foggara or qanat works. An upward sloping tunnel is
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists have used 3D scanning to investigate inscriptions carved on two groups of Danish runestones, revealing that four stones were likely made in dedication to a powerful Viking Queen named Thyra. The study reveals who carved
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The fact that Neanderthals were able to make a fire and use it, among other things, for cooking, demonstrates their intelligence. “This confirms our observations and theories from previous studies,” explains Diego Angelucci, archaeologist at
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – In 2022, archaeologists made a very unusual find. A Medieval folding chair was discovered in a woman’s grave in Steinsfeld in Central Franconia in the Ansbach district, Germany. Examinations of the woman’s skeleton showed she
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists have revealed that a hoard of coins buried in a small pot, just discovered in Glencoe, Scotland, paints a fascinating picture of life for one Highland clan chief and his household. The coins were
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Neanderthals hunted cave lions and used the skin of this dangerous carnivore, a new study has shown for the first time. Excavations at Einhornhöhle (Unicorn Cave) in the Harz Mountains (Lower Saxony, Germany) in 2019
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists in Italy could hardly believe their eyes when they opened a mysterious ancient chamber tomb in the municipality of Giugliano in Campania, near Naples. An exterior shot of the recently-discovered chamber tomb near Naples.
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists have been excavating at the Celtic settlement in Samborowice (Silesia) for a significant number of years, This year, a number of intriguing finds were made, and one of the most special ones is a
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Vikings are often depicted as crude barbarians running around yelling and waving with swords, but there are many reasons we should reconsider whether this is an accurate picture. We have heard it all before. The
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The development of the earliest cities in Mesopotamia and the Middle East led to a substantial increase in violence between inhabitants. Laws, centralized administration, trade and culture then caused the ratio of violent deaths to
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – There is much to be learned from many ancient civilizations. Ancient Maya reservoirs, which used aquatic plants to filter and clean the water, ‘can serve as archetypes for natural, sustainable water systems to address future
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – This beautiful little key was recently recovered by our Kemble field team from a Newland Homes site near Claverham, North Somerset. Medieval key from Court De Wyck. Image source The excavation was situated immediately adjacent to the former location of
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Earlier this year our Kemble fieldwork team undertook a small excavation at the edge of Claverham village, North Somerset, for Newland Homes. The excavation area was immediately adjacent to the 19th-century manor house of Court De Wyck,
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A new decorated stela has been found in context, in the 3000-year-old funerary complex of Las Capellanías, in Cañaveral de León (Huelva, south-west of Spain). It is thought that late prehistoric stelae in Iberia were created to
AncientPages.com – When and how humans first settled in the Americas is a subject of considerable controversy. In the 20th century, archaeologists believed that humans reached the North American interior no earlier than around 14,000 years ago. But our new research found
