Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – At Gjellestad in Norway, archaeologists from the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research (NIKU) have found a 60-meter longhouse. There is no longer a doubt that Gjellestad, where the same team discovered a Viking ship
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists have unearthed the first Roman mosaic of its kind in the UK. A rare Roman mosaic and surrounding villa complex have been protected as a Scheduled Monument by DCMS on the advice of Historic
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The elites of premodern Korea carved their names into rocks in the sacred mountains of Kŭmgangsan for much the same reason that today’s graffiti taggers wield cans of spray paint: reputation and control. And while
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists from the University of Gothenburg have concluded an excavation of two tombs in the Bronze Age city of Hala Sultan Tekke in Cyprus. The finds include over 150 human skeletons and nearly 500 objects—including
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The oldest unequivocal evidence of upright walking in the human lineage are footprints discovered at Laetoli, Tanzania, in 1978, by paleontologist Mary Leakey and her team, dated to 3.7 million years ago. Another set of
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – An international team, led by researchers from the Universities of Vienna and Tübingen, and the Max Planck Society, has identified five new human fossils from the key site of Denisova Cave in southern Siberia. The
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – What if Indigenous diets could save our politically and ecologically strained planet? The answer may lie in the success of an ancient civilization high in the Andes Mountains, where not much grows. UC Berkeley archaeologists
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A skull unearthed on an uninhabited Caribbean island is a rare find: It’s one of just a few examples of leprosy identified on a skeleton in the western hemisphere. And it’s the only one that’s
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A new study from The Australian National University (ANU) has revealed the death rate of babies in ancient societies is not a reflection of poor healthcare, disease and other factors, but instead is an indication
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Based on the identification of plant remains, Tel Aviv University and Tel-Hai College researchers provide the first detailed reconstruction of the climate in the Land of Israel at the end of the last ice age
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A new multidisciplinary study by an international team reports the discovery of an ivory pendant decorated with a pattern of at least 50 punctures, creating an irregular looping curve. The direct radiocarbon date of the
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Referred to as China’s Venice of the Stone Age, the Liangzhu excavation site in eastern China is considered one of the most significant testimonies of early Chinese advanced civilization. More than 5000 years ago, the
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Several artifacts have been unearthed in the ancient city of Aizanoi, located 57 kilometers (35 miles) from Kütahya city center, a hometown, known for the famous carpets, and tiles. Aizanoi had its golden age in the
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists excavating in the 5,000-year-old city of Aizanoi, Turkey have unearthed an ancient oil lamp shop as well as a bone workshop. Nicknamed the Second Ephesus, Aizanoi was once an ancient Greek city and an
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The ancient Maya had stone temples and palaces in the rainforest of Central America, along with dynastic records of royal leaders carved in stone, but they lacked a basic commodity essential to daily life: salt. The
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Expedition members of IA RAS have found a unique plate depicting winged Scythian gods surrounded by griffons during their excavations of the burial ground Devitsa V in Ostrogozhsky District of Voronezh region. This is the
