Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Anyone with the slightest knowledge of Viking Age history will know the Vikings were excellent craftsmen and merchants who established successful relationships and traded with people from various countries. Trade was a flourishing activity for the Vikings
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Dragons played an important role in the mythology of many ancient cultures. In Asia, the dragon was one of the four totems of the ancient nomadic tribes. Depictions of dragons have been found on ancient tombs, palaces,
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Using remote-sensing technology and a geophysical survey, scientists have discovered a massive, underground anomaly. It has been suggested Iron Age temples of the early, legendary Ulster Kings are hidden below the ground. While scanning the
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The 2013 archaeological excavations in the Yavru village, Black Sea province of Amasya, Turkey revealed 2,000-year-old and unique mosaics with kilim-like motifs possibly dated to the Roman period. Image credit: Anatolia News Agency After seven
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists from the Göcseji Museum, Hungary, discovered a fragment of a 6,500-year-old statuette at the site of a large settlement that belonged to the Lengyel culture that dates to ca. 5000 – 3400 BC. “Venus
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Thousands of years ago the UK was physically joined to the rest of Europe through an area known as Doggerland. Then, a marine inundation took place during the mid-holocene and this event separated the British
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Homo Neanderthaliensis did not become extinct because of changes in climate. At least, this did not happen to the several Neanderthals groups that lived in the western Mediterranean 42,000 years ago. Researchers sampled this 50-cm
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The face of a man who lived in the lost medieval village of Dzwonowo in Poland has been reconstructed using 3D printing technology. We don’t know who the man was. Researchers suggest he may have
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Fossils of palm leaves were found growing on the edge of the sea in Igdir, located at the foot of Ararat Mountain. They were sent last week Igdır University and Atatürk University to be examined.
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The remains of an ancient Aztec palace, which once became the home of Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés, was discovered under a landmark building of the Historic Center of the Mexico City, located in front of
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – This tiny, wooden horse may not be much to look at, and compared to other unearthed ancient artifacts it’s not very old at all. Nevertheless, to archaeologists in Sweden, it’s a priceless artifact. A Dalecarlian
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – When archaeologists started to investigate the ancient holes at Løykja in Norway, they were not particularly excited, but then they suddenly found evidence of something unusual taking place at the site. This was no ordinary
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – This man was only 25 or 30 years when he died 1,700 years ago. He would be surprised to learn future generations were so curious to see what he looked like that they conducted a
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The recent study led by Marina Martínez de Pinillos (CENIEH) and Laura Martín-Francés (CENIEH and PACEA-University of Bordeaux, strengthens the hypothesis that the settlement of Europe could have been the result of several waves of
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The Egyptian team of archaeologists has found severaL mysterious rock-cut-openings located high in a cliff inside the sacred valley south of the royal cemetery of Umm Al-Qaab. Some openings lead to one chamber, while others
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A team led by Newcastle University, UK, used analysis of ancient coprolites – fossilized excrement – to identify that samples from one of the most famous ‘pre-Clovis’ sites at Paisley Caves, in Oregon, North America,
