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Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Scientists have unearthed what could be the world’s oldest known saddle. The well-preserved soft leather saddle recovered from the tomb of a female deceased at the Yanghai cemetery site in the Turfan Basin at the
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 Council and Carlisle Cricket Club, has received £56,700 in funding from the
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The medieval trading center of Rungholt, which is today located in the UNESCO Wadden Sea World Heritage Site and currently the focus of interdisciplinary research, drowned in a storm surge in 1362. The researchers use
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. But Justin Garnett saw something else. “They resembled finger loops like those
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – This fragment of a fine marble statuette of Heracles, about half a meter high, that was discovered a few years ago at Horbat Tarbenet in the Jezreel Valley (also known as the Valley of Megiddo)
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 detector. So, when he contacted Ancient Pages and told us about his
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Scientists have found what they believe to be the earliest known evidence of wine drinking in the Americas, inside ceramic artifacts recovered from a small Caribbean island. Forty ceramic sherds were examined in the first
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 mats and tied with ropes arranged in a geometric pattern, is thought
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – About 40 years ago, an ancient tablet was found on Mount Ebal, close to the city of Nablus and roughly 50 kilometers north of Jerusalem, Israel. Little was known about the tablet then, but the
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 of the most important finds ever made in the eastern Chinese province.
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – In excavations carried out on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority in the City of David, within the Jerusalem Walls National Park, and funded by the City of David Foundation, a small fragment of a stone
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 coastal waters of Moshav Beit Yanai, north of Netanya. This is the
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – New evidence for the presence of ancient lakes in some of the most arid regions of South Africa suggests that Stone Age humans may have been more widespread across the continent than previously thought.
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 years ago, from where it may have spread to other regions, simultaneously
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Many fascinating archaeological findings have been made in Sweden, but when it comes to petroglyphs, this is one of the biggest discoveries in a long time. Not only are the recently found petroglyphs large in
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 to between 7,000 and 8,000 years old, depict nearby desert kites, vast
