Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A once-in-a-lifetime archival discovery reveals that a rare map hiding behind a false identity in Washington D.C. was the work of William Clark, the once revered but now increasingly controversial American explorer, Indian agent and

Jan Bartek  – AncientPages.com – A previously undiscovered wreck has been found outside of Fjällbacka on the Swedish west coast. Analysis of wood samples shows that it is the oldest shipwreck ever found in the province of Bohuslän. This is

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – After many years of searching Captain James Cook’s famous vessel the HMB Endeavour may now have been found off the coast of the US state of Rhode Island. Born in northeast England in 1728, Captain

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Ancient Indigenous people in Peru had a unique response to the looting and destruction of their ancestors’ graves during the European colonial period, an international team of archaeologists has discovered. A study led by the

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Scientists have discovered a 1.5 million-year-old human vertebra in Israel’s Jordan Valley. According to a new study, ancient human migration from Africa to Eurasia was not a one-time event but occurred in waves. The first

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Scholars looking for underground water sources on the Eastern Arabian Peninsula for a project funded by the United State Agency for Aid and International Development, have accidentally uncovered the outlines of a settlement that appears

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The rapid decline of the Hopewell culture about 1,500 years ago might be explained by falling debris from a near-Earth comet that created a devastating explosion over North America, laying waste to forests and Native

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The Judean Desert is a unique time capsule for archeologists: thanks to the arid conditions that prevail there, its caves preserve ancient artifacts made of organic materials, which would have otherwise decayed and disappeared under

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Egyptologists have recovered more than 18,000 inscribed sherds in ancient Athribis—the remains of vessels and jars that served as writing material some 2,000 years ago. The sherds, known as ostraca, document lists of names, purchases

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – This important discovery sheds much light on cacao cultivation, religion, power in the region. For as much as modern society worships chocolate, cacao — the plant chocolate comes from — was believed to be even

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – New insight into how our early ancestors dealt with major shifts in climate is revealed in recent research. It reveals new radiocarbon dates show the large Early Holocene cemetery of Yuzhniy Oleniy Ostrov, at Lake

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Horses have been intrinsically entwined with human history for the past five millennia, acting as an early means of rapid transport and playing a key part in agriculture, warfare and sport. Despite this, major decades-long

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A team of scientists examined the remains of a previously submerged fisher-hunter-gatherer camp on the shores of the Sea of Galilee from around 23,000 years ago and discovered something interesting. Through a close analysis of

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The Mycenaean culture in Bronze Age Greece is not only famous for works of art such as the “Gold Mask of Agamemnon”, but also for the beginning of export-oriented mass production of elaborately made ceramic

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – King Amenhotep III, also known as Amenhotep the Great, was the ninth pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty. During his reign, Egypt successfully managed to keep peaceful relationships with other nations and forge vital alliances. King Amenhotep