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Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Researchers have led the analysis of bracelets found in the tomb of Queen Hetepheres I – the largest and most famous collection of silver artifacts from early Egypt. It is the first analysis of the
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A tip from the local population had led the archaeologists from Frankfurt to the area near the city of Ibra in Oman, where they found several settlements. Irini Biezeveld and her fellow doctoral researcher Jonas
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The Neanderthals and Homo sapiens were both innovative and often devised similar surviving techniques independently. Recently, scientists demonstrated Neanderthals invented or developed birch tar making technique independently from Homo sapiens. In a new study, researchers
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists excavating at Netherhampton Road, on the edge of Harnham, a southern suburb of Salisbury, England have unearthed a giant Bronze Age barrow cemetery. Wiltshire is well known for its Bronze Age barrows, especially those
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists at Flinders University have identified rare images of Moluccan vessels from Indonesia’s eastern islands in rock art paintings that may provide the first archaeological evidence of visitors from Southeast Asia from somewhere other than
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 question remains: how tar was made by Neanderthals? Königsaue birch tar and
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Stone Age humans may have made extended maritime voyages on the Caspian Sea, according to a new study published in the journal Open Archaeology. The research analyzed ornamental beads made from the disk-shaped shells of a species of
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, the coastal city of Sanya, Hainan province. Over 100,000 cultural relics, mainly
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have identified three 4,000-year-old British cases of Yersinia pestis, the bacteria causing the plague—the oldest evidence of the plague in Britain to date, reported in a paper published in Nature
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 announced these workshops dedicated to humans and animals are the largest and
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The Urnes brooch is beautiful and eye-striking. Archaeologists have unearthed many Urnes-style brooches in Norway, and scientists say this type of jewelry was mass-produced and became high fashion during the late Viking and Middle Ages.
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 it even the case in prehistory? Archaeologists at the University of Göttingen
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – For at least three million years, knapping stone has been practiced by hominin societies large and small, past and present. Thus, understanding knapping, knappers, and knapping cultures is fundamental to anthropological research around the world.
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 anywhere on the planet. The toilet seat taken from the House of
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A study by the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) makes a new technological appraisal of a northern gannet bone that displays complex peri-cylindrical decoration. Researcher Asier Erostarbe, in his laboratory at the University of
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 a small vessel of ointment in Carmona. Two thousand years ago, in
