Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Using geomagnetic surface surveys and successful hands-on digging, archaeologists from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) made very interesting discoveries in the area, in which the caliph’s palace of Khirbat al-Minya was built on the shores
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Among ancient Mayas, cacao was not a food exclusive to the elite, but was important and common — to all. It was the money that grew on trees. Painted cylinder vase depicting a foaming drink
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – New important findings have been revealed by Greek-Swiss excavations at the sanctuary of Amarysia Artemis, located two kilometers east of Amarynthos, nearby Eretria, on the island of Euboea. Byzantine or post-Byzantine rampart wall and building
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Who were the Neanderthals and what caused their demise? For more than 350 000 years, Neanderthals inhabited Europe and Asia until, in a sudden change by evolutionary standards, they disappeared around 40 000 years ago.
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – An incredible find is being reported from Wisconsin, where an ancient canoe carved from a single piece of white oak has been discovered in Lake Mendota. It’s the second time scientists find an ancient canoe
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – During archaeological excavations carried out in Ga’ab El Lagia Church in Sudan, archaeologists discovered 1,000 years old paintings depicting the Virgin Mary with Christ and two archangels. Image credit: PAP – Science in Poland, Szymon
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A remarkable musical discovery was made in the silty mud on the Vindolanda excavations this year. An extremely rare copper alloy cornu mouthpiece, dated to 120-128 AD, was unearthed in May of this year. It was
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A Slovak-German team of archaeologists researching one of the largest Central European Stone Age settlements in Vráble in western Slovakia, have unearthed the remains of three dozen headless bodies of people who may have been killed in
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – An excavation team consisting of students and scientists from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AuTH) has made a stunning discovery in Philippi, a major Greek city northwest of the nearby island, Thasos. In a press
Jan Bartek – AncientPagers.com – Researchers from Tel Aviv University collected samples of charcoal used as fuel for metallurgical furnaces in the Timna Valley, located in Israel’s southern desert region, during the 11th to 9th centuries BCE and examined them
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – It would seem ancient Maya cities in Mesoamerica are as beautiful as dangerous. There is solid evidence that beneath the soil surface of the ancient Maya cities, an unexpected danger lurks there: mercury pollution. In
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – It may have been a storm or something else, but scientists now know a ship loaded with cargo from all over the Mediterranean ended its journey after sinking off the coast of Israel 1,200 years
