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Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists excavating at the Casas de Turuñuelo archeological site in Guareña, Badajoz, Spain, have unearthed five remarkable life-sized stone busts that reveal for the first time the faces of the ancient Tarteso people. The Tartessian
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists have been interested in El Mirón cave for a long time, and over the years, many fascinating finds have been reported from this corner of the world. First discovered for science in 1903 by
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Historical records have long suggested that Medieval Norse colonists on Greenland (AD 985–1450) relied on imported materials such as iron and wood. Until now, it has not been fully recognized where these wood imports came
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists have discovered the buried remains of a Roman fortlet that once stood next to the Antonine Wall in West Dunbartonshire, the frontier that the Romans constructed across central Scotland. The Roman fortlet was thought
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – If you could travel back 100,000 years in time, you’d find yourself living among multiple groups of humans, including anatomically modern humans, Neanderthals, and Denisovans. But exactly what our Denisovan relatives might have looked like
AncientPages.com – Recent excavations at the Villa of the Quintilii uncovered the remains of a unique winery just outside Rome. The mid-third-century CE building located along the Via Appia Antica portrays a sense of opulence and performance almost never found at an ancient production
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Paleolithic people living in very cold environments depended on tight-fitting garments to survive. What tools and techniques were used to produce such clothing about 40,000 years ago has been unclear. According to a recent study,
AncientPages.com – It’s not called the Third Pole for nothing. The Tibetan Plateau forms the major portion of a vast upland area of ice and glaciers that covers some 100,000 square kilometres of Earth’s surface. Modern pastures on the highland Tibetan Plateau.
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – As archaeologists continue to excavate the Saqqara necropolis in Egypt, new impressive findings are being made. The Italian Dutch archeological mission from the Leiden Museum in the Netherlands and the Egyptian Museum in Turin have
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeological sites along the Libyan shoreline are at risk of being damaged or lost due to increasing coastal erosion, according to a new study. The Cyrenaican coast of Eastern Libya, stretching from the Gulf of
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Long obscured in the shadows of history, the world’s first nomadic empire—the Xiongnu—is, at last, coming into view thanks to painstaking archaeological excavations and new ancient DNA evidence. Arising on the Mongolian steppe 1,500 years
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – While investigating at Waskiri, near the Lauca River and the Bolivian-Chilean border, archaeologists made a curious discovery. Scientists found an impressive circular construction on a small hill at the site. The Waskiri structure surprised researchers
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Traces of the past remain hidden in rivers, lakes and seas. But we rarely look underwater and, as they say, out of sight is out of mind. In his inaugural lecture Martijn Manders will explain
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A researcher at the University of Kentucky is helping solve a mystery on the coast of North Carolina: Where did coal found on the shipwrecked Queen Anne’s Revenge come from? About 300 years ago, a
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Ancient Roman coins have previously been discovered on Gotland in Sweden. However, coming across similar ancient items on the deserted island of Gotska Sandön does not happen often. It’s a unique discovery due to the
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Underwater archaeologists have discovered an amazing ancient temple with marble altars at the bottom of the sea of Pozzuoli in the Italian region of Campania. The two Roman-age marble altars, datable to the first half of
