Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Oxygen levels in the Earth’s atmosphere are likely to have “fluctuated wildly” one billion years ago, creating conditions that could have accelerated the development of early animal life, according to new research. Scientists believe atmospheric
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – In the Late Viking Age, a grave was built that looks very similar to one of the most spectacular graves of the Roman Age in Norway. The Hunn burial site in Østfold is a rich
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A new study has shown milk was used by the first farmers from Central Europe in the early Neolithic era around 7,400 years ago, advancing humans’ ability to gain sustenance from milk and establishing the
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Advanced techniques to analyze the Dead Sea Scrolls and Eastern papyri are revealing vibrant secrets about daily life in the ancient world. Around 2,100 years ago, a Judaean scribe deftly swirled a stylus to dab
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – What did our ancestors eat during the stone age? Mostly meat. Researchers at Tel Aviv University were able to reconstruct the nutrition of stone age humans. In a paper published in the Yearbook of the
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – An analysis of obsidian artifacts excavated during the 1960s at two prominent archaeological sites in southwestern Iran suggests that the networks Neolithic people formed in the region as they developed agriculture are larger and more
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A new study has, for the first time used zinc isotope analysis to determine the position of Neanderthals in the food chain. The findings suggest that Neanderthals were, in fact carnivores. Were Neanderthals carnivores? Scientists
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – The Hammer of Thor is frequently mentioned in Norse mythology as a valuable object that belonged to the mighty thunder God Thor. Several Norse myths and legends describe the importance of Thor’s ax-hammer hammer, Mjölnir,
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A mural of an Aztec rabbit God of alcohol is not something anyone expected to across inside a church, but that’s exactly what surprised workers experienced in Mexico. A team of restorers commissioned to repair
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Impressive drone footage has revealed an ancient Mesopotamian city known as Lagash challenges long-held ideas about the origin and development of the world’s oldest urban centers in southern Iraq. The collection of large-scale remote sensing
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Two beautiful over a 1,000 years old stone murals from the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127) had been unearthed in central China’s Henan Province. The murals are the largest of their kind ever found in the
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists excavating at the site of Paneas (later known as Banias) within the Hermon Stream Nature Reserve have come across a hidden hoard that offers evidence of a dramatic historical event in the history of
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists in Belize have found ancient Maya salt workers worked from home. The discovery was made during the excavation of Ta’ab Nuk Na, the largest known Maya salt works in the country, which is submerged in
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The relationship between modern humans and neanderthals has been a subject of interest to anyone who wants to know more about our long-gone ancestors. A new study sheds more light on our understanding of the
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – The amazing survival strategies of polar marine creatures might help to explain how the first animals on Earth could have evolved earlier than the oldest fossils suggest, according to new research. These first simple
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Under the aegis of the University of Oslo, an international research team has extracted and analyzed plant DNA from the sediments of the Armenian “Aghitu-3” cave. About 40,000 to 25,000 years ago, the cave was
