Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Honey and other bee products were likely a sought-after foodstuff for much of human history, with direct chemical evidence for beeswax identified in prehistoric ceramic vessels from Europe, the Near East and Mediterranean North Africa,
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Now, an international team of researchers analyzed the genome of the skull and reports what is likely the oldest reconstructed modern human genome to date. The segments of Neanderthal DNA in its genome were longer
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – It has been assumed for some time the Caynton Caves were used by the Knights Templar, who held secret meetings in underground chambers at the site. Still, there is a difference between assuming and knowing
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Egypt continues to reveal some of its ancient secrets. Archaeologists have announced they have unearthed the Lost Golden City of Pharaoh Amenhotep III in Luxor’s southern province. The archaeological discovery is already hailed as one
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The 4,000-year-old piece of rock, called Saint-Bélec Slab has been re-examined and a new analysis shows it may be Europe’s oldest 3D map. Originally found in Brittany, France in 1900 the stone slab has been
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – An international research team has sequenced the genomes of the oldest securely dated modern humans in Europe who lived around 45,000 years ago in Bacho Kiro Cave, Bulgaria. In their study, they compared their genomes to
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Have you ever wanted to see what the famous, ancient Baalbek temples in Lebanon once looked like? Now you have the chance to do just that. A magnificent virtual 3D tour of Heliopolis, as the
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Britain has still not returned thirty Stone Age statues that were taken for restoration in 1990. According to Daifallah Hdeithat, the head of the Mesha Centre for Studies and Human Rights in Jordan, the statues
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Using magnetic imaging, scientists have re-discovered ancient burial mounds in Iowa that were presumably lost to history. These Native American mounds were spotted on land that had been plowed and leveled. Another piece of good
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The University of Aberdeen is to return a Benin bronze – a sculpture looted by British soldiers in Nigeria in one of the most notorious examples of the pillaging of cultural treasures associated with 19th-century
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Pirate Henry Every was an English pirate who operated in the Atlantic and Indian oceans in the mid-1690s. Dubbed “The Arch Pirate” and “The King of Pirates” by contemporaries, Captain Henry Every used a number
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – This is really great news to anyone who appreciates art and culture. The Louvre Museum has announced it has put its entire collection online for free! The collection contains nearly half a million items you
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The Scythians were a multitude of horse-warrior nomad cultures dwelling in the Eurasian steppe during the first millennium BCE. Because of the lack of first-hand written records, little is known about their origins and relations
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Valsgärde is a large Viking burial cemetery located not far from Uppsala in Sweden. Today it’s just a name few, even in Sweden have heard about, but in ancient times this was a place where
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Every society has some degree of wealth inequality—over history, in different cultures across continents. There always seem to be some people who have more than others, so traditionally, inequality has always varied. Archaeologists examined the
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Some years ago, paleontologists found sixteen preserved trunks of cypress trees, estimated to be eight million years old in the area of the Bükkábrány lignite mine in Hungary. When archaeologists recently visited the same area
