Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The theory that there was once a second sphinx is not new, but despite many claims, no one has been able to provide solid evidence of a twin Sphinx. Has this finally changed with the surprising

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – While excavating at the Saqqara necropolis a team of archaeologists uncovered the tomb of Ptah-M-Wia, head of the treasury during the reign of Pharaoh Ramesses II. According to the Ptah-M-Wia the discovery is important because

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – New research has analyzed a rare collection of non-returning boomerangs from Kinipapa (Cooper Creek), near Innamincka in South Australia’s far northeast. The four boomerangs and one wooden fragment were discovered in the creek bed during drought

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Stunning new reconstructions have revealed how Scotland’s largest known Pictish fort may have looked over one thousand years ago. Three-dimensional images of Burghead in Moray have been created based on archaeological excavations by the University

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Four rare Late Neolithic chalk plaques from the Stonehenge region have been subjected to non-invasive Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) technology in a new study by experts from Wessex Archaeology, which has shed light on previously

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The burial of legendary queen Emma of Normandy has been discovered in Winchester Castle, United Kingdom. “Emma of Normandy is one of the most intriguing Medieval queens who pushed England into a new era, and

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Thirty years ago, archeologists excavated the tomb of an elite 40-50-year-old man from the Sicán culture of Peru, a society that predated the Incas. The man’s seated, upside-down skeleton was painted bright red, as was

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Many Dutch ships passed the West Australian coast while enroute to Southeast Asia in the 1600s—and the national heritage listed shipwreck, Batavia, has revealed through its timbers the history of the shipbuilding materials that enabled Dutch

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Since its first recorded sighting by European explorers in the 1600s, scientists and historians have believed that Europeans were the first people to ever set foot on the Falkland Islands. Findings from a new University

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – While some current scientific theories point to ancient Chaco Canyon, a distinctive archaeological site in the American southwest, as simply a prehistoric ceremonial site populated only during sacred rituals — University of Cincinnati researchers are

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A man’s claim to be the great-grandson of legendary Native American leader Sitting Bull has been confirmed using DNA extracted from Sitting Bull’s scalp lock. This is the first time ancient DNA has been used

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – As part of the Silk Road and located at the geographical intersection of Eastern and Western cultures, the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region has long served as a major crossroads for trans-Eurasian exchanges of people, cultures,

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Magnificent ancient treasures discovered by local fishermen in Indonesia‘s Musi River may be the beginning of a great archaeological and historical story. The artifacts date back to the Srivijaya civilization, a powerful kingdom between the

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Peter Turchin from the Complexity Science Hub Vienna (CSH) and an interdisciplinary team of colleagues set out to test competing theories about what drove the evolution of war machines throughout world history. Their study, published