Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Previously unknown motifs depicted on south-west Sweden’s best-preserved rock paintings have now been revealed by researchers at the University of Gothenburg. The art is probably at least 5,000 years old, perhaps much older. At this

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Using drone technology, a team of UF researchers has uncovered an ancient and rare pre-Columbian Florida village. A drone equipped with Light Detection and Ranging quickly collected architectural details and topographic data about the Raleigh

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Who exactly were the Aurignacians, who lived in the Levant 40,000 years ago? The Aurignacian culture first appeared in Europe some 43,000 years ago and is known for having produced bone tools, artifacts, jewelry, musical instruments,

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Remnants of a drystone wall, known as the ‘Gawri Wall’ or ‘Gawri Chen Wall’, dated to the Antique Age have been discovered by Iranian archaeologists working along the borders of Serpol Zehab city in Kermanshah province,

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Our knowledge about Neanderthals is increasing but there is still much we don’t know about our closest extinct human relative. The Neanderthals were members of a group of archaic humans who emerged at least 200,000

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Scientists can now date some stave churches more accurately than in the past.  A non-destructive measurement method called photodendrometry was used by researchers, and it shows that several stave churches are older than the dates previously

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The remains of a huge settlement surrounded by a massive brick enclosure, has been discovered during the 1st  phase of excavation by a team of Archaeological Survey of India’s Excavation Branch – VI, Bangalore at

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A 1,400-year-old iron hammer and nails from the Byzantine period have been unearthed according to the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) archaeologists. The findings were located by an Israeli family from Tur’an in Lower Galilee, who

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – These tiny gold foil figures are mainly associated with the Pre-Viking Age, but what were they used for? A metal detector discovered an ancient gold piece of gold depicting a man and woman at Hovland

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A marble statuette of the Roman goddess Cybele has been unearthed during archaeological works at the Forum site in Bulgaria’s city of Plovdiv, reports The Sofia Globe. The statuette is believed to date from the

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Can the old Aztec technique in the form of innovative  ‘chinampas’ (‘artificial island’) contribute to better urban farming today? Researchers led by Roland Ebel from the Sustainable Food Systems Program at Montana State University examined

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – What is hidden beneath the waters has been revealed once again. This time archaeologists report they have found a stunning underwater Stonehenge that was built 5,500 years ago in the Neolithic period. Archaeologists say the

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – In ancient times, Koh Ker was an important city of the Khmer Empire of South East Asia that lasted from 802 CE to 1431 CE. However, it lived a very short time as the Empire’s

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Researchers have now identified mosses and liverworts frozen with the Iceman, Ötzi.  The man’s 5,300-year-old human corpse was found frozen in ice in the Italian Alps in September 1991 in the Ötztal Alps. Over 5300

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The most famous sword in stone is the Excalibur associated with the Arthurian legend. The Excalibur was said to have had magical powers. We haven’t been able to locate King Arthur’s legendary sword, but this