Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A new study shows Neanderthals and modern humans are more related than previously thought. Studies of the Y chromosomes of Neanderthals and Denisovans have not yet been possible because researchers only had access to sufficient
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists in northwestern Turkey discovered a sun disk on a rock altar in the ancient Thracian settlement. The Thracian rock altar, unearthed in Edirne, dates to 3,500 years ago, according to Prof. Dr. Engin Beksac,
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists have unearthed parts of a loom, tools for creating textiles and accessories dating back four millennia in western Turkey. A view of the mill in Denizli, western Turkey, Sept. 23, 2020. Image credit: DHA “Last
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A unique 8,400-year-old dog burial has been discovered in southern Sweden. It’s an extraordinary find because it is the oldest dog burial unearthed in the country! The remains of the well—preserved dog – was found
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A new study led by UCL researchers shows that chromium steel was first made in Persia, nearly a millennium earlier than experts previously thought. It was long believed that it was a 20th-century invention but
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The shipwreck that in the 1850’s carried Mayan people into slavery has been identified by archaeologists of Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH). The wreck of the Cuban-based paddle-wheel steamboat was found in
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Three antique idols depicting of Lord Ram, Lakshman and Sita have been returned by Britain to Indian authorities. The three bronze statues were stolen from Tamil Nadu in 1978, from a Hindu temple in the
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – For thousands of years, mosaics were a popular art form for in many cultures around the world. They have a very long history and their earliest examples were discovered in a Mesopotamian temple dating back to
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The city of Teotihuacán in Mexico remains as intriguing as mysterious. There is still so much we do not know about Teotihuacán, a city where we find some of the most significant Mesoamerican pyramids built
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Marine archaeologists from the Viking Ship Museum have found the last of the three wrecked warships from the ‘Battle of the Fehmarnbelt’ in 1644. On a cool October day in 1644, the Danish Navy suffered
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The area of the Piedras Blancas site, Antequera, Málaga, Spain, has been excavated and studied for several years to learn about the uses of this very ancient place in prehistory. Menga Dolmen. source Dolmens of
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – How many more stunning unknown runestones could still be scattered across Sweden? We cannot answer that question, but we can say with certainty a farmer in Sweden made a startling and unexpected discovery. When the
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A milk-tooth found in the vicinity of “Riparo del Broion” on the Berici Hills in the Veneto region bears evidence of one of the last Neanderthals in Italy. This small canine tooth belonged to a
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Ancient steppe nomads in Siberia were violent people dedicated to warfare and plundering. That has been known for some time, but archaeologists have now also unearthed skeletons that offer evidence of frightening and unknown rituals
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A new study by an international team of researchers published in Science Advances presents around 120,000-year-old human and animal footprints from an ancient lake bed in northern Arabia. The first human footprint discovered at Alathar
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – In 2007 during illegal excavations, the Roman and Byzantine era beautiful mosaics were accidentally found and this event led to the discovery of a lost ancient city of Germanicia lying beneath the modern city of
