News Archive
Fossils
Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - Researchers at Lund University in Sweden analyzed fossilized plesiosaur soft tissue for the first time, revealing it had both smooth and scaly
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The ancient peoples of the Philippines and Island Southeast Asia (ISEA) may have developed advanced boat-building skills and seafaring expertise tens of thousands
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DNA
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Light eyes, hair, and skin are believed to have evolved multiple times as Homo sapiens moved out of Africa. In areas with lower UV
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists had long suspected that something lay hidden beneath the building, though the extent of the ancient structure's survival was uncertain. In a
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Military personnel and veterans from Operation Nightingale recently took part in an archaeological excavation that yielded unexpected findings. This dig, associated with renovation
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Evolution
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Recent research into the inner ear morphology of Neanderthals and their ancestors offers new insights that challenge the prevailing theory regarding their origins.
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers led by Dr. Knut Bretzke from Friedrich Schiller University in Jena have presented the oldest evidence of systematic stone blade production on
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An Egyptian-British archaeological team has made a groundbreaking discovery by uncovering the long-lost tomb of Pharaoh Thutmose II, completing the list of royal tombs
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have unearthed what they believe to be the largest Viking Age building found in Britain. Teams of volunteers discovered the Viking Age
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists have uncovered a piece of history hidden for centuries. Researchers at the Sforza Castle in Milan, Italy, have discovered an intricate network of
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - About 4,900 years ago, humans built a fortress on a hill in present-day Almendralejo, Spain during the Copper Age. The stronghold featured three concentric
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Palmyra, renowned for its extraordinary heritage and archaeological remains, is one of Syria's most famous sites. It was inscribed on the World Heritage
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The domestication of maize stands as an exceptional example of humanity's influence on evolutionary processes. Early farmers transformed corn from an almost inedible plant
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Galloway Hoard, showcased with pride at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh, is a truly extraordinary treasure from the Viking Age.
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DNA
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Two landmark studies have successfully traced the origins of the Indo-European language family, which encompasses over 400 languages spoken by more than 40%
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers have studied 16th-century sources on famine, flooding, and plagues in present-day Romania. The ‘society’s archive’ – contain reports and observations about local
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Domus Aurea has once again revealed an extraordinary discovery related to the workshops responsible for the frescoes in this monumental residence, which
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An archaeological discovery near Sturgeon Lake First Nation is reshaping history and challenging narratives about early Indigenous civilizations in North America. The site
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Recent excavations at the Chupacigarro archaeological site in the Supe Valley near Caral, a pre-Hispanic city in Peru, have unveiled a previously unknown
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DNA
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Approximately 19,000 years ago, a woman from a hunter-gatherer community passed away and was interred in a cave located in northern Spain. In
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Linguistic Discoveries
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers started deciphering text preserved on papyrus scrolls from the ancient site of Herculaneum. Researchers have achieved a significant milestone by generating the
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Linguistic Discoveries
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The origins of the Indo-European language family, which encompasses over 400 languages, including major groups like Germanic, Romance, Slavic, Indo-Iranian, and Celtic, spoken
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Research conducted by geoscientists from Heidelberg University has provided new insights into early environmental contamination in the Aegean Sea region. By analyzing sediment
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Svingerud grave field, located in Hole municipality, Buskerud County, about 40 kilometers northwest of Oslo, Norway, has emerged as a significant site for
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A recent study from the Vilnius University explores the adaptive agricultural practices employed by pre-industrial communities in north-eastern Europe over the last two thousand
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A magnificent and uniquely rare Roman gold lock has been presented to the public by the Westphalia-Lippe Regional Association (LWL). Dating back to
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Human Beginnings
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Ella Egberts from VUB conducted a field trip to Iraq in November and December 2024 as part of a pilot project to identify archaeological
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A researcher from McGill University has uncovered new insights about Guiengola, a 15th-century Zapotec site in southern Oaxaca, Mexico. Previously believed to be
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Archaeology
Jan Barterk - AncientPages.com - Scientists have recently discovered that a pre-Columbian society in the Amazon, known as the Casarabe Society of the Llanos de Moxos in Bolivia, developed
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