Archaeology Archive

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating in India have come across a 2000-year-old Mauryan-era brick platform that may provide scientists with valuable information about the lost Ashoka

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - How should we relate to the traditional historiography on ancient Sicily? The prevailing view has been that the indigenous population had neither territory,

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating in Egypt have unearthed several interesting artifacts that were used in religious rituals for goddess Hathor. The ancient tools were discovered

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Using oxygen stable isotope analysis of tooth enamel from animals butchered by humans at the site of Bacho Kiro Cave, Bulgaria, Max Planck

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Footprints found at White Sands National Park in New Mexico provide the earliest unequivocal evidence of human activity in the Americas and offer

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Ancient rulers had one thing in common with political leaders today - they were eager to brand themselves. Archaeologists have discovered Maya rulers

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Vinland Map, once hailed as the earliest depiction of the New World, is awash in 20th-century ink. A team of conservators and

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An international team describes ancient hand and footprints made deliberately which they argue represent art. Hand shapes are commonly found in prehistoric caves, usually,

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - This summer, a tomb embedded in the rock by the main entrance to the San Tirso and San Bernabé Hermitage situated in the

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have long had a dating problem. The radiocarbon analysis typically used to reconstruct past human demographic changes relies on a method easily

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The long-distance migrations of early Bronze Age pastoralists in the Eurasian steppe have captured widespread interest. But the factors behind their remarkable spread

Conny Waters- AncientPages.com - An international group of scientists has identified what may be the oldest work of art, a sequence of hand and footprints discovered on the

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Today, more than 10 percent of all global marriages occur among first or second cousins. While cousin-marriages are common practice in some societies,

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The human capacity for warfare and whether it is an inescapable part of human nature is a hot button issue at the heart