Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The ancient city of Hadrianopolis was an important site of pilgrimage for early Christians until the city lost its importance in the 8th century AD. Traces of the Asclepius cult were found during the studies carried

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Researchers from the University of Barcelona have analyzed settlement dynamics of the communities of the central-eastern Iberian Peninsula that existed 4,000 years ago. The fortified settlement of La Bastida (Totana, Murcia). This is one of

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The ship that sent an iceberg warning to the RMS Titanic before the ocean-liner sank has been identified lying in the Irish Sea. In 1912 the merchant steamship SS Mesaba was crossing the Atlantic and

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – It seems logical enough: even in their earliest history, humans must have needed something to carry their babies around in as they moved from place to place. But because little hard evidence of this exists—no infant-sling

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Using geomagnetic surface surveys and successful hands-on digging, archaeologists from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) made very interesting discoveries in the area, in which the caliph’s palace of Khirbat al-Minya was built on the shores

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Among ancient Mayas, cacao was not a food exclusive to the elite, but was important and common — to all. It was the money that grew on trees. Painted cylinder vase depicting a foaming drink

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – New important findings have been revealed by Greek-Swiss excavations at the sanctuary of Amarysia Artemis, located two kilometers east of Amarynthos, nearby Eretria, on the island of Euboea. Byzantine or post-Byzantine rampart wall and building

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Who were the Neanderthals and what caused their demise? For more than 350 000 years, Neanderthals inhabited Europe and Asia until, in a sudden change by evolutionary standards, they disappeared around 40 000 years ago.

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – An incredible find is being reported from Wisconsin, where an ancient canoe carved from a single piece of white oak has been discovered in Lake Mendota. It’s the second time scientists find an ancient canoe

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – During archaeological excavations carried out in Ga’ab El Lagia Church in Sudan, archaeologists discovered 1,000 years old paintings depicting the Virgin Mary with Christ and two archangels. Image credit: PAP – Science in Poland, Szymon

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A remarkable musical discovery was made in the silty mud on the Vindolanda excavations this year. An extremely rare copper alloy cornu mouthpiece, dated to 120-128 AD, was unearthed in May of this year. It was

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A Slovak-German team of archaeologists researching one of the largest Central European Stone Age settlements in Vráble in western Slovakia,  have unearthed the remains of three dozen headless bodies of people who may have been killed in

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – An excavation team consisting of students and scientists from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AuTH) has made a stunning discovery in Philippi, a major Greek city northwest of the nearby island, Thasos. In a press

Jan Bartek – AncientPagers.com – Researchers from Tel Aviv University collected samples of charcoal used as fuel for metallurgical furnaces in the Timna Valley, located in Israel’s southern desert region, during the 11th to 9th centuries BCE and examined them

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – It may have been a storm or something else, but scientists now know a ship loaded with cargo from all over the Mediterranean ended its journey after sinking off the coast of Israel 1,200 years