Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeological excavations in Syria are currently difficult and dangerous, especially in zones occupied by rebels. The recent finding has already been hailed as a major archaeological discovery and shows that courageous scientists in Syria refuse

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Early farming in Scotland was a less smelly affair than elsewhere, as new research shows they did not need to use manure to fertilize their fields—unlike their counterparts in other parts of the British Isles and

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Researchers are working with a group of First Nations Australians in a race against time, and some of the roughest terrain on Earth, to document ancient art in the bark of Australia’s boab trees. Carvings

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Maps of climate in the distant past could provide insight into the future as carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere increase. About 56 million years ago, volcanoes quickly dumped massive amounts of carbon dioxide

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists announce an interesting discovery of a 1,800-year-old bronze medal bearing a Medusa head. In Greek mythology, a monster was also called Gorgo, and eye c0ntact with it would turn one immediately to stone. Ancient

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – To gild sculptures in the late Middle Ages, artists often applied ultra-thin gold foil supported by a silver base layer. For the first time, scientists at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have managed to produce

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The best way to prove some mythical stories were based on real events is through archaeology. On several occasions, myths and legends have been confirmed by modern science, and there is always room for discoveries

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com –We rely on climate models to predict the future, but models cannot be fully tested as climate observations rarely extend back more than 150 years. Understanding the Earth’s past climate history across a longer period

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The Sikait Project research team, directed by Professor Joan Oller Guzmán from the Department of Antiquity and Middle Age Studies at the UAB, recently published in the American Journal of Archaeology the results obtained from

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A corroded Roman bowl dated to the Late Iron Age (between 43 and 410 AD) contains traces of chlorobenzenes, a chemical once used in pesticides that is known to accumulate in soil and water sources.

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – During the excavations at Carrignacurra Castle in Cork, in the south-west of Ireland, archaeologists unearthed several ancient finds. Archaeological excavations at Carrignacurra Castle in Cork revealed an ancient coin, among other atifacts. (a close-up image).

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – This archaeological discovery came to light when a group of treasure hunters excavated illegally in the Tusba district of Van, Turkey. These activities led to the discovery of a 2,700-year-old  Urartian structure. Once authorities were