Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The discovery of King Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922 was an archaeological sensation. When British archaeologist Howard Carter found King Tut’s tomb in Luxor’s Valley of the Kings it was intact and packed with antiquities, including
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – When archaeologists excavated the necropolis of Saint-Pierre-l’Estrier, France, they unearthed more than 230 graves. Inside these tombs, Inrap archaeologists found many exceptional objects. Among them were gold jewelry, jet and amber pins, and an outstanding
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists have unearthed an extraordinary treasure trove consisting of Etruscan and Roman artifacts in the village of San Casciano dei Bagni, Tuscany, Italy. Famous for its numerous springs of sulfurous waters spread throughout its territory,
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – New Curtin research has provided the strongest evidence yet that Earth’s continents were formed by giant meteorite impacts that were particularly prevalent during the first billion years or so of our planet’s four-and-a-half-billion year
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com -A unique discovery was made by archaeologists while excavating the ruins of a medieval wooden house in the town of Nový Jičín in the Moravian-Silesian region located on the Czech/Polish/Slovak borderlands. In the underground segments of
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Last month, scientists announced human footprints believed to date from the end of the last Ice Age had been discovered on the salt flats of the Air Force’s Utah Testing and Training Range (UTTR) by
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – While carrying out recent restoration works on the statues of Memnon and the “Temple of Millions of Years” on the western mainland in Luxor, southern Egypt, a German-Egyptian archaeology team has uncovered two giant limestones
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – An international collaboration of scientists has created and observed an entirely new class of vortices—the whirling masses of fluid or air. Led by researchers from Amherst College in the U.S. and the University of East
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Researchers have identified the ingredients in chemistry formulas from a 2,300-year-old Chinese text, revealing ancient metallurgy was more complex than expected. The Kaogong ji was written in China around the middle of the first millennium
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Based on previous archaeological studies, researchers know that the Old Kingdom of Egypt and the Akkadian Empire, both Bronze Age civilizations, experienced sudden declines in population several thousand years ago. The cause of the decline
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – An ancient burial place of a noble Mongol warrior has been unearthed in the vicinity of the village of Glinoe, Slobodzeya region, the Republic of Moldova. Archaeologists informed that the warrior belonged to the highest
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – After having received an anonymous tip, INAH scientists have been able to recover two precious and huge Olmec reliefs in Tenosique, a municipality in the state of Tabasco, Mexico. Archaeologists have long debated what connection
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – An extraordinary discovery is reported from the area of Mány, a town in Hungary located in the northeast of Fejér County, Hungary. Image credit: Szent István Király Museum via fmc.hu Preliminary excavations began at the beginning
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The oldest known seeds from a watermelon relative, dating back 6,000 years to the Neolithic period, were found during an archaeological dig in Libya. An investigation of these seeds led by biologist Susanne S. Renner
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Did the 12th century B.C.E.—a time when humans were forging great empires and developing new forms of written text—coincide with an evolutionary reduction in brain size? Think again, says a UNLV-led team of researchers who
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A priceless 800-year-old pendant dating back to the 12th century was discovered on a site that was once an Iron Age or Romano British settlement. The treasure was unearthed by archaeologists working on the HS2
