Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – After many years of hard, dedicated work, scientists have finally deciphered the longest Zapotec text of its kind known to exist in the Oaxaca Valley, Mexico. According to archaeologists, the length of the best-preserved segment,
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – At present, more than 80% of the ocean remains unexplored. In recent years, underwater archaeologists have discovered magnificent, ancient ruins and startling prehistoric artifacts. Scientists are confident more underwater treasures will be found in the
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Anyone who is interested in underwater exploration will be thrilled to see the images of Shackleton’s lost ship Endurance that has been discovered off the coast of Antarctica. Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ship was trapped in
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Something very strange and unexplained happened with European DNA about 5,000 years ago. For reasons totally unknown, the genetic markers of this first pan-European culture were suddenly replaced, and scientists do not know why.
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Location, location, location—it’s the first rule of real estate. For a long time, it’s been widely assumed that being close to resources drives settlement patterns, with cities generally founded near water and fertile land for
Jan Bartek- AncientPages.com – Examining the spines of Neanderthals, an extinct human relative, may explain back-related ailments experienced by humans today, a team of anthropologists has concluded in a new comparative study. The analysis centers on the spine’s curvature, which
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – In the spring of 1900, a group of Greek sponge divers, blown off course by a storm in the Aegean, stumbled upon the wreck of an ancient Roman ship loaded with treasure that had sunk
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Knowledge about the Picts is still limited and every discovery related to these people shed new light on the ancient history of Scotland. The Picts were brave and determined people who repelled the conquests of
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists have discovered a unique 9,00-year-old shrine in the Jordan Desert. According to scientists the shrine “sheds an entirely new light on the symbolism, artistic expression as well as spiritual culture of these hitherto unknown
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – How did the first modern humans reach the European continent? A new study shows that the first Homo sapiens could not have reached Europe over the Gibraltar or Sicily straits, but they might have got to Eurasia
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – A new species of one of the most recognizable types of dinosaur is the oldest stegosaur ever found in Asia, and one of the earliest unearthed anywhere in the world, according to research published
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Unguja Ukuu is a small settlement on Unguja island (Zanzibar Island), in Zanzibar, Tanzania. It is an archaeological site that has yielded abundant artifacts and evidence of the long history of Unguja Ukuu. Artifacts unearthed at Unguja Ukuu came
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Cut into several boulders located within the Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation, in western Nevada, the petroglyphs date to at least 10,500 years ago and perhaps even as far back as 14,800 years ago. They are –
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A well-preserved Palaeolithic site in northern China reveals a new and previously unidentified set of cultural innovations. When did populations of Homo sapiens first arrive in China and what happened when they encountered the Denisovans
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Remains of a large administrative facility from the First Intermediate Period were uncovered during an excavation carried out by an Austrian-Egyptian mission led by Eriny Foster this week at the Upper Egyptian town of Kom
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Mummification of the dead probably was more common in prehistory than previously known. This discovery was made at the hunter-gatherer burial sites in the Sado Valley in Portugal, dating to 8,000 years ago. View from
