Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists have discovered the ruins of what they believe was one of the greatest fire temples in Iran during the Sassanid age, named after the House of Sasan. The time of the Sassanids lasted for over
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The Georgia Guidestones have been vandalized on previous occasions. The recent destruction of the monument dubbed “America’s Stonehenge” near Elberton took place on Wednesday this week. The Elbert County Emergency Management Agency has informed the
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologically excavated stone tools—some as much as 2.6 million years old—have been hailed as evidence for an early cultural heritage in human evolution. But are these tools proof that our ancestors were already becoming human,
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – New archaeological techniques have uncovered the origins of 13 early South Australian colonists buried in unmarked graves in the Anglican Parish of St Mary’s Church in Adelaide. Published today in Australian Archaeology, the new research involved
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A team of specialists and students led by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill professor Jodi Magness recently returned to Israel’s Lower Galilee to continue unearthing nearly 1,600-year-old mosaics in an ancient Jewish
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – In the Stone Age, pendants with potent symbolism were made from animal teeth and bones, adorning clothes or accessories and serving as rattles. Human bones were also used as a raw material for pendants, as
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists from The University of Manchester have started a dig at a 5,000-year-old tomb linked to King Arthur, hoping to answer some of the mysteries surrounding the enigmatic site in the process. The experts are
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – An almost intact skeleton of a young warrior has been unearthed during archaeological excavations in the vicinity of Pasohlávky in the Brno-Country District in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. Germanic Langobard burial
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Paleontologists from three universities in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, found a fossiliferous site lost for more than 70 years near the city of Dom Pedrito, the heart of the Campanha region and a city
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – During Roman times Colchester was known as Camulodunum. Located in Essex, 80 km northeast of London, in what was the territory of the Trinovantes, the Roman occupation of Camulodunum began in the AD 40s. Roman
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The Skalica district in Slovakia is a well-known archaeological site where scientists have previously unearthed many interesting ancient objects. Credit: M. Sládok, KPÚ Trnava “According to archaeological discoveries Skalica, as part of the region Záhorie,
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A well-preserved ancient road discovered by an archaeologist offers evidence that Romans moved much deeper into Wales than historians previously thought. Dr. Mark Merrony, a Roman specialist and tutor at Oxford University who discovered the
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The first discovery of viruses infecting a group of microbes that may include the ancestors of all complex life has been found, researchers at The University of Texas at Austin report in Nature Microbiology. The discovery
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – New genetic research from remote islands in the Pacific offers fresh insights into the ancestry and culture of the world’s earliest seafarers, including family structure, social customs, and the ancestral populations of the people living
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – New archaeological research into grave goods and skeletal material from the oldest grave field in the Netherlands shows that male-female roles 7,000 years ago were less traditional than was thought. The research was conducted by
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Neanderthals are our closest extinct relatives and modern humans share 99.7% of their DNA. These intriguing beings were widespread across Europe and Western Asia for a long time, about 400,000 years ago, and they died
