Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The new discovery of ancient stone artifacts at an underwater spring off the Western Australia Pilbara coast has confirmed the location is a submerged archaeological site where more ancient Aboriginal artifacts are likely hidden beneath
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Researchers from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History have identified the oldest decisive evidence of humans’ close evolutionary relatives butchering and likely eating one another. View of the hominin tibia and magnified area that shows cut
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – An airborne laser scanning study has led to the surprising discovery of an ancient, unknown Maya city hidden deep in the jungle in the Yucatán Peninsula. Mexico’s National Institute for Anthropology and History (INAH) has
Conny Waters – AncientPages – People have long believed in the existence of vampires. Ancient people were convinced these scary blood-sucking creatures were extremely dangerous. Accounts of vampires occur in mythology and folklore worldwide, and there are also some historical
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Tormod Fjeld was hiking with his family in the Moss area when they stopped for a rest break near a boulder, Viken County Municipality. Fjeld is no stranger to looking for past traces, which is
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – A 3D model of a 407-million-year-old plant fossil has overturned thinking on the evolution of leaves. The research has also led to fresh insights about spectacular patterns found in plants. The research published in
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Markings on a cave wall in France are the oldest known engravings made by Neanderthals, according to a study published June 21, 2023, in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Jean-Claude Marquet of the University
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Dutch archaeologists have unearthed a remarkable ancient structure that has been nicknamed the Stonehenge of the Netherlands”. Scientists say the intriguing 4,000-year-old structure includes a burial mound that served as a solar calendar. Inside the
Jan Bartek – AncienyPages.com – Measuring just 6 centimeters wide and 8 centimeters long, the magnitude and exceptionality of the discovery has left the European archaeological community flabbergasted. It is a fragment of an oil amphora from the Roman region
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Three 1850-year-old stone ossuaries have been retrieved in an operation carried out to prevent antiquity looting near Kafr Kanna in Galilee. Photography by Yoli Schwartz, Israel Antiquities Authority The stone ossuaries (small burial chests) were
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The distant ancestors of modern horses had hooved toes instead of a single hoof, which vanished over time, according to researchers. The animals, such as the Eocene Hyracotherium, had feet like those of a modern
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The missing link has just been found between the earliest dinosaurs, whose size ranged from a few centimeters to at most three meters in length, and more recent giants that could be more than twice
