Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Mesopotamia and the Indus civilization were both urban civilizations with large, densely populated and planned cities, 6000–1990 BCE. A new thesis in archaeology points out that the ancient Indus society showed complex patterns of urbanity that
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – During routine excavations at the site of Abusir 30 km north of the Giza Plateau, excavators from the Czech Institute of Egyptology at the Charles University in Prague have discovered the largest cachette of ancient
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A new study examining the chemical makeup of iron artifacts from the Viking age aims to uncover new insights into where they came from that could reveal previously unknown information about historic events. Credit: University
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – New research released today finds that while the Knights of the Round Table have won global fame, most medieval English heroic or chivalric stories have been lost. Meanwhile, more than three-quarters of medieval stories in
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The long-held consensus that the more populated and “civilized” a society, the more complex their communication may be more nuanced than previously thought. After systematically analyzing written and otherwise recorded evidence of shared information in
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – How did Baroque period artists/sculptors go about their craft? For the first time, researchers have performed a forensic anthropological analysis of a marble skull carved by Gian Lorenzo Bernini. The analysis of this re-discovered sculpture
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The Siberian Valley of the Kings, on the Southern Siberian Steppe of the Russian Federation, is of great significance to archaeologists, who have made astounding findings in the region over the years. In the Siberian
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The discovery of ancient runes is always of great interest to those who study Norse history and culture. Many runic inscriptions have been found, but it is now always easy to decipher, but scientists work
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A new study has confirmed saltwater drowning as the cause of death for a Neolithic man whose remains were found in a mass grave on the coast of Northern Chile. The method developed to solve
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists excavating in Pakistan report they have unearthed a 1,800-year-old Buddhist stupa and relics in the region of the northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. This is a great archaeological discovery for several reasons. To begin
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A new study reveals how archeologists can determine when a pot was used by Romans as a portable toilet, known as a chamber pot. “Conical pots of this type have been recognized quite widely in
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – What a person eats influences that person’s health, longevity and experience in the world. Identifying the factors that determine people’s diets is important to answer the bigger questions, such as how changing climates will influence
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Vikings were not a uniform phenomenon in ancient Scandinavia. They were part of a complex system of plunder economy that existed in Europe until the early Middle Ages. With royal power rising, independent raiders either
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The Viking Gjermundbu helmet is one of the most valuable Viking Age artifacts ever discovered. Over the years, archaeologists have discovered many precious Viking Age artifacts, such as remarkable Viking jewelry, weapons, ritual objects, pieces of clothes, and
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – An international team led by researchers at the University of Huddersfield has used ancient DNA to rewrite the history of the Orkney islands to show that Orkney actually experienced large-scale immigration during the Early Bronze
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A groundbreaking study in prehistoric archaeology at Tel Aviv University provides evidence for high cognitive abilities in early humans who lived 170,000 years ago. In a first-of-its kind study, the researchers developed a software-based smoke
